Ken Walker

Ken Walker


Ken Walker is the President and Chief Executive Office of Owl Cyber Defense.  Since 2006 he has served in a variety of technical and management roles including VP of Services, VP of Products and CTO at Owl (and Tresys prior to the merger in 2019).  Mr. Walker has over 30 years of experience in information system security and has held related technical positions at DynCorp, SecureMethods, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and Trusted Information Systems.

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Washington Keeps Naming the Risk. It’s Time to Name the Fix.

Washington has issued four AI, data center, and grid security directives in 18 months — and all four name the risk without specifying the fix. The fix that's missing is a hardware-enfor...
October 13, 2026

The AI Protection Myth: Why AI Readiness Needs a Hardware Floor

AI readiness is not just about adopting better models, writing stronger policies, or adding more software guardrails. As Forrester explains in The CIO’s Guide to AI Readiness, success d...
September 29, 2026
Carolyn Ford VP Global Marketing, Owl Cyber Defense

NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform just validated what we’ve been saying for years. Software can’t hold an AI agent. You need a boundary it cannot argue its way past.

Today NVIDIA launched its Open Agent Safety Platform, built around OpenShell (a secure runtime boundary) and Sentry (a hardware watchdog running on BlueField DPUs that can quarantine a mi...
September 28, 2026