| Our speaker's for the Presentation:
Garrett Boyd - Pondurance
Garrett Boyd is a cyber security professional with a military background and deep experience protecting the U.S. government’s most sensitive and mission-critical networks. He is currently a Manager for the Pondurance DFIR team and leads the DFIR Threat Intelligence Section.
Garrett joined the team in 2025 from Palo Alto Networks, Unit 42 where he investigated large scale advanced persistent threat forensic intrusions for diverse geographical networks. He also supported a Fortune 50 Social Media company’s human code review process to train their machine learning and artificial intelligence process, identifing information moving between different application universes.
In 2019, Garrett was part of Chenega IT Enterprise Services, where he was assigned to serve as senior cyber threat intelligence analyst in the Executive Office of the President at the White House. There, he correlated incident activity through enterprise threat fusion to assess and direct response operations and defensive measures of the Presidential Information Technology Community Systems. He also provided information and analysis on nation-state threat actor activity targeting principal individuals and White House Assets and data.
Previously, Garrett served on the cyber incident response team at TEKsystems, working principally with the U.S. Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group on investigations into malware, suspicious emails, and non-compliance activity. He also conducted real-time and historical threat investigations for the Marine Corps Enterprise Network responding to internally and externally reported events from United States Cyber Command, and other agencies. He also worked with Defense Point Security as a senior security analyst assigned to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s security operations center.
Prior to this, Garrett served ten years in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising from data analyst at Camp Pendleton to senior cyber analyst and instructor at the Corps’ Defensive Cyber Operations in the Cyberspace Operations Group at Quantico, Virginia.
Garrett also serves as a mentor for individuals transitioning from active duty into the civilian cyber security industry, focusing on resume translation, education, and technical training. He has also worked as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. teaching hands on cybersecurity and forensic courses to international relations students. |
