Meet Brian

Brian Green is a senior leader in Booz Allen’s global defense business. He focuses on the delivery of cyber capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. His primary areas of expertise are cybersecurity, cyber capability development, and the security of next-generation network architectures such as zero-trust networks and 5G mobile networks. Brian previously led the development of full-spectrum cyber solutions within our national cyber platform, as well as leading our work supporting U.S. Cyber Command and other national security clients.

Brian rejoined Booz Allen after a time as president of Ponte Technologies, a cybersecurity services business where he led corporate strategy, contract management, and business development. Prior to his time at PonteTec, Brian spent 15 years at Booz Allen. These earlier roles included leading our penetration testing and advanced persistent threat detection capabilities, and leading client delivery efforts in security product testing, advanced persistent threat hunting, wireless security, information assurance architecture, systems security engineering, and vulnerability analysis.  

Early in his career, Brian served in a U.S. Air Force tactical communications unit as a communications engineer. He has also served as a technical surveillance countermeasures and wireless security researcher for the National Security Agency.  

Brian is a certified information systems security professional, a certified project management professional, and a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in electrical engineering. 

What do you do at Booz Allen? In the firm’s global defense business, I provide leadership to grow our cyber work across the Indo-Pacific region, including the U.S. government as well as directly with U.S. allies and partner nations, such as Singapore and Australia.

What’s the most pressing need in your industry right now? To keep pace with the rapid advancement of technology and the evolving threat to our defense and national security clients, our industry needs to integrate automation solutions implementing AI and machine learning technologies to address this threat in the cyber domain. The primary limiting factor is the availability of talent to develop and implement these solutions. We need talented engineers and software developers who are cleared in the intel community. These people can be difficult to find. To attract and retain the best minds to solve the hardest national security problems, we need to be clear about our “why.” It’s really a combination of exciting technical work paired with a passion for helping to support and defend the country.

What worries your clients? The rate of change in technology is a major source of concern, particularly from the perspective of maintaining secure and resilient networks as new technologies are integrated into client systems. Additionally, many of our clients in the Indo-Pacific need secure, reliable, and redundant ways to collaborate and interoperate with allies and partner nations in theater. Our clients are constantly looking at ways to innovate by leveraging the latest technologies, but often their biggest fear is that some new technology will introduce a vulnerability in their system that could put their data or the entire mission at risk. 

How do you help your clients deal with those challenges? We stay abreast of the latest technologies. We send our talent to the leading industry conferences, and we invest in research and development on rapidly changing technologies such as software-defined networking, 5G, and AI applied to defensive cyber operations. We also encourage our talent to explore their own new ideas and technical innovations, and we provide informed recommendations to our clients regarding how to leverage new technologies while mitigating risks. We help our clients by delivering industry-leading talent and solutions to address the challenges of today and the uncertainties of tomorrow.