As a defense contractor, AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides IT and engineering solutions for complex national priority programs for the U.S. government. As you can imagine, the sensitive programs and data they hold makes them heavily targeted by sophisticated, determined, highly resourced nation-state threat actors. Losing data would mean losing a competitive advantage on the battlefield. In short, lives could be at stake. That’s not your average security breach. We sat down with CIO and CISO Brian Neely to learn a bit more about how he’s seen the industry evolve, what’s next and how hacker-powered security fits into the matrix.