Kurt Gaudette is Vice President of Intelligence and Services at Dragos, Inc. He is responsible for leading Dragos’s world-class team of Intelligence and Services analysts that work in lock step on critical tasks to improve industrial cyber defenses and security. Dragos Intel analysts focus on discovery, tracking, and disrupting threats to industrial control systems across the globe, while Services team analysts leverage this intelligence to deliver rapid incident response, assessments, hunts, training and more to Dragos services customers.

Kurt is a proven senior cybersecurity leader who drives innovative ways to stay ahead of sophisticated and quickly evolving threats worldwide. With more than 30 years of operational and technical intelligence experience, he has successfully built and led multiple global enterprise teams of up to ~4,000 personnel and managed/executed budgets up to ~$1.2B.

Prior to joining Dragos, Kurt served as part of the Senior Executive Service (SES) Corps building and leading a major office/global enterprise focused on weapons, space, and disruptive technologies for the National Security Agency and simultaneously running a multi-agency all source intelligence center for the greater DoD. As a senior officer in the U.S. military, he twice commanded major organizations running large-scale intelligence collection operations overseas. He also served as the Director of Intelligence/CJ2 for a large combined joint interagency task force in Afghanistan in one of his three deployments to that region.