Mr. Dalling is a subject matter expert with over 20 years of Information Security experience and IT Operations. He is an accomplished, motivated, and versatile IT professional in a variety of Information Technology fields ranging from hands-on systems development, testing, and management to enterprise-level strategic planning, and consultation. David is a man of firsts; He helped get the DHS Enterprise Security Operations program its first ever ATO, wrote the first ever common control package for DHS, received a security engineering award for developing a SOC metrics program that contributed to DHS first ever perfect score card. Taking this experience David then led the development of the first ever Managed XDR service to receive its FedRAMP Authorization. David has now taken his love to take on new challenges to Adventure racing where he purposely gets lost in the woods to compete with Trail running, Mountain biking and kayaking for 100+ miles. Recently David joined Splunk after being the Cyber CTO for AFS  and now is the GVP of Global Cyber Strategist where he helps drive the strategy and go to market efforts for Splunk and works with customers on their north star objectives and roadmaps.