Steve Stone

Steve Stone is currently the Senior Vice President of Threat Discovery and Response at SentinelOne, where he leads a team of industry experts focused on bad guys and breaches. This includes managed detection and response, SentinelLabs, incident readiness and response, detection engineering, and threat hunting.

His expertise is frequently highlighted in various media outlets, including Forbes, the New York Times, Bloomberg, and the BBC. He is a regular speaker at prominent industry forums such as RSA, Gartner, and BlackHat. Steve has also provided sworn testimony on cyber threats to both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee for Intelligence. His achievements include guiding two teams to win the NSA’s Rowlett Award, being recognized as the Defense Intelligence Agency Analyst of the Year, earning multiple Department of Defense Senior Civilian of the Year awards, and being a listed author for several National Intelligence Estimates.

Before his tenure at SentinelOne, Steve established the first-ever threat research team at Rubrik (Rubrik Zero Labs). He also held leadership roles at Mandiant, where he led multiple teams in managed detection and response as well as intelligence functions, culminating in his role as Vice President, Adversary Operations. Additionally, he served as the Global Intelligence Lead for IBM’s X-FORCE IRIS, where he was instrumental in integrating intelligence, incident response, and managed services.

Prior to entering the private sector, Steve led the US intelligence community’s inaugural cyber threat intelligence team for a Combatant Command, comprising over 20 members from five agencies. His career began as a Special Agent with the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations, with a primary focus on counterterrorism and felony crimes, to include combat deployments across several continents.