Summary
Kenneth Kron is a pragmatic cybersecurity leader and CISO based in the Los Angeles area with over 8 years in senior security roles and decades of hands-on engineering and entrepreneurial experience. He combines deep defensive engineering—deploying Vault, Boundary, DAST/SAST pipelines and immutable OTP access—with a knack for turning stalled revenue streams and product freezes into operational momentum. Comfortable at the intersection of product, ops and executive strategy, he has led security programs at startups and enterprises while also founding and advising early-stage ventures. His background spans source-code analysis at scale, IoT video prototyping, and building privacy-enhanced blockchain tooling, reflecting a wide technical curiosity. A 5th-degree Aikido black belt, he brings disciplined, tactical thinking and a facilitative leadership style that channels conflict into productive outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
None Computer Science, None Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University
5th Degree Black Belt Aikido, 5th Degree Black Belt Aikido at City Aikido
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Southeastern Louisiana University
Spanish