Summary
Ken Graf is a computer security lecturer, researcher, and practicing CTO with over a decade of experience bridging academia and industry from Bedford, New Hampshire. He specializes in practical security engineering—authorization, authentication, biometrics, encryption, forensics, virtualization, and cloud defense—helping teams add robust security without derailing product timelines. As a University of New Hampshire instructor and longtime CTO at Security Crossing, he combines teaching, consulting, and hands-on architecture to translate complex trust and usability trade-offs into actionable decisions. His background spans hardware, jailbreaking, zero-day analysis, and legal/mobility considerations, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on attacker techniques and defensive design. Known for pragmatic SDLC and governance guidance, he focuses on measurable remediation and quality while preserving developer velocity. He often plays the role of pragmatic translator between technical teams, legal stakeholders, and youth/outreach initiatives to broaden security literacy.
9 years of coding experience