Brian Beyer
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Kyrus Charities
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBrian Beyer is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and engineering leader with 14 years of experience who co-founded and leads Red Canary, a pioneer in the Managed Detection & Response market focused on keeping organizations mission-focused amid cyber threats. He brings hands-on product and technical experience from Kyrus Technology into scalable security operations and software that pair expert talent with automated detection and response. Brian has contributed to open-source security tooling—helping shape validation, test formats, and documentation for the widely used Atomic Red Team project—underscoring his practical understanding of threat emulation and detection engineering. Based in the Denver area, he also channels his expertise into nonprofit acceleration as a board member of Kyrus Charities, connecting tech skills to mission-driven organizations. Known for combining kindness with relentless execution, he emphasizes quality, customer-first thinking, and pragmatic security engineering.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (13)
security-testing10
mitre-attack10
att10
yaml10
ruby9
bash8
powershell7
classpath6
java6
xml6
visual-studio6
ftp6
32bit-64bit6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
redcanaryco/atomic-red-team
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:139 commits, 61 PRs, 243 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on developing and implementing security-related features within the Atomic Red Team repository. Their contributions included the creation of validation scripts, test file formats, and documentation generation related to the atomics tests. The user demonstrated an understanding of security testing methodologies, by working on the format and validation of tests. The user also contributed to general code cleanup and refactoring.
mitremitre-attackportable
kyrus/python-junit-xml
Jan 2013 - Feb 2020
A Python module for creating JUnit XML test result documents that can be read by tools such as Jenkins. If you are ever working with test tool or test suite written in Python and want to take advantage of Jenkins' pretty graphs and test reporting capabilities, this module will let you generate the XML test reports.
Contributions:46 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 years 2 months
pythonjunitjenkinsreportsgraphs
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