As the National Practice Director for Application Security, Threat & Vulnerability Management within AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting, Mr. Klepper has broad responsibilities. In addition to providing subject matter expert support to sales teams across all channels and verticals, Mr. Klepper is responsible for defining services offered regarding penetration and vulnerability testing, application security testing, managed scanning solutions, and incident response and forensics. A sought after thought leader and public speaker, Mr. Klepper makes regular appearances on AT&T Threat Traq and mentors team members in both technical and non-technical disciplines such as sales techniques, strategic problem solving, and quality assurance. With over 26 years in Information Technology and Security, Mr. Klepper brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting team. He joined the organization with the acquisition of the VeriSign Global Security Consulting business where he filled the role of the Global Application Security Practice Lead. Since coming to AT&T, Mr. Klepper has applied his management and technical skills to a steadily increasing scope of disciplines and services, leading a multi-million dollar per year practice within AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting. Prior to AT&T, Mr. Klepper held positions with a number of Value Added Resale organization before joining the Strategic Security Services team at Deloitte & Touche. Later, Mr. Klepper took a position with the security start up firm Guardent, Inc. which would eventually be acquired by VeriSign, and in turn AT&T. Through these positions of increasing responsibility, Mr. Klepper developed deep technical skills in data networking, application security, and penetration testing. As a former Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), he continues to maintain a strong awareness of those compliance requirements. Throughout his career, Mr. Klepper has demonstrated the ability to identify and translate customer needs into proposed solutions and ultimately, completed projects. A Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Alien Vault Certified Security Engineer (AVSE), Mr. Klepper has had management responsibility of an organization as large as 18 people and has directly managed and executed upon multi-year, multi-million dollar projects for multiple Fortune 500 enterprises. Mr. Klepper holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the College of Business and Economics at the University of Idaho.