David Barton

David Barton, Chief Information Security Officer, is responsible for the day-to-day security operations of Stellar Cyber in addition to product strategy and direction. Prior to Stellar Cyber, Barton was the COO for 5Iron, an MSSP based in Nashville, TN.

Barton brings to Stellar Cyber more than 20 years of experience in security leadership roles across a variety of industries, including telecommunications, healthcare, software development, finance, and government. Prior to 5Iron, he spent three years as Chief Information Security Officer for Forcepoint, responsible for securing the information and physical assets of Forcepoint on a global scale.

Barton spent three years building and leading the international security team at HireRight protecting their customer data and intellectual property. Prior to that, he spent almost eight years as director of information security at AT&T/Cingular, based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he led efforts to protect over 80 million wireless subscribers. As group manager of security operations and engineering at Sprint/Nextel, he managed all security activities for application development, database architecture, and enterprise policy and audit compliance, in addition to building a world-class white-hat security team.

Barton holds an executive MBA from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, a B.S. in management information systems from Simpson College, and a CISSP certification.