Kent Blackwell is a Director at Schellman, helping lead their penetration testing and offensive security practice. Kent has over fifteen years of experience serving clients in a multitude of industries, including the Department of Defense and top cloud service providers. He got his start in penetration testing evaluating systems as a civilian with the Air Force before later joining Schellman to help build the security practice. A security and privacy enthusiast, Kent is passionate about ensuring people can have confidence in the platforms to which they entrust their data.