Champ Clark
Chief Executive Officer at Key9identity
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChamp Clark is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and proven engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building detection platforms, SOC tooling, and modern identity systems. As founder and CEO of Key9 Identity he’s pushing passwordless, FIDO2-driven identity providers while drawing on decades of hands-on CTO work designing multi-threaded log engines, alert spooling, and packet analysis for customers up to Fortune 500 scale. He’s comfortable toggling between technical depth and executive strategy, having led FEDRAMP/ISO-aligned designs, incident response teams, and cloud migrations across Azure, AWS, and GCP. A seasoned speaker at DEFCON, HOPE, CCC and Suricon, Champ has a rare talent for translating complex security concepts for both technical and sales audiences. Outside of infosec he’s an avid musician who records and performs in rock and punk bands, a creative outlet that informs his collaborative leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lively Technical/Vocational College in Tallahassee, FloridaComputer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at The School of Hard Knocks
Github Skills (63)
snort10
rule10
spooler10
suricata9
log-analysis9
high-performance9
logging9
passwords8
syslog7
dedicated7
daemon7
unstructured7
dialer7
normalization7
elastic6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
beave/meer
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 226 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
quadrantsec/sagan-rules
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:78 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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