Adam Winston

Adam Winston

Field CTO, managed services, WatchGuard Technologies

Adam Winston is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling security operations centers (SOCs) and cyber defense programs.

As Founding CTO of IntelliGO Networks, he developed a next-gen managed detection and response (MDR) platform that was acquired by ActZero, where he later served as chief security officer. There, he helped launch a fractional CISO program, guiding clients through complex frameworks like HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, CMMC, and FedRAMP.

Now serving as field CTO of amnaged services, Adam continues to drive innovation in threat detection and SOC efficiency using AI and automation. He advises organizations across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and privacy sectors on strategy, compliance, and risk, while securing environments across AWS, Azure, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

His expertise spans firewalls, EDR, SIEM, and SOAR, and his leadership has enabled rapid ransomware response, achieving sub-hour remediations and 10ms system reaction times.