Dustin is the Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) at Katilyst, a company which enhances companies' security cultures through engaging security champion programs. Previously, Dustin spent over a decade in technical roles as a software engineer and application architect in retail, US Department of Defense (DoD), and video game industries before moving into cybersecurity executive leadership and successfully implementing cybersecurity, application security, and security culture programs at large and small companies.
Dustin has been an avid guitar player since high school and has created rock bands that have performed original songs at many Denver area venues. He is also a huge reader (Actionable Gamification, Influence), regular video gamer (Assassin's Creed, Helldivers), and a board/card gamer (Settlers of Catan, Pandemic, Forbidden Island, Bohnanza).
Dustin Lehr, an IANS Faculty member since 2024, provides deep, subject-matter expertise to our clients across the following cybersecurity domains: security champions, motivational design and gamification, application/product security strategy, metrics and devsecops tooling and automation.