Brian Krause

About Brian Krause

A movie made for Hollywood needs good and evil engaged in conflict. IT Security provides this storyboard every second. Corporate Entities and Governments may be flawed characters. But, it’s the world we live in and allows us to provide for our families and grow our society. It sets the stage because.Evil forces all around either hate us with vengeance or want to steal what we have. It may not be a physical war zone, but we reside in a DMZ where battles are fought with computers. 🦈We are baited with phishing attacks. Disinformation targets social feeds. We are being tricked with QR codes, embedded website codes, and all sorts of ways we can barely understand. 🦸‍Our friends, families, coworkers, and citizens are defenseless without our unsung heroes buried deep in security operations centers. These fine men and women remain almost faceless and forgotten, but we owe our freedom to them. My corporate purpose in life is to help our defenders stave off omnipresent ransomware gangs, nation-states, disgruntled workers, malware operators, and spies threatening us. I covertly do my part by educating on the threats our IT Security Defenders have marching across the horizon. I work with the IT Community to understand their pains and share stories of how other factions are fighting off evil-doers. I train our Security Services and Reselling Partners on the skills and methods they need to build full-scale practices around identity security. I arm sales reps and engineers with the tactical tools needed to spread the good word and get our customers and partners working together. I then work within my unit to ensure we have the products and messaging to support customers, partners, and company reps fully. 🤜Do you need someone to give your IT Team intel on the threats facing your company?🤜Do you need someone to show your reps how to message solutions to fight off attacks?🤜Do you need someone to get your engineers ramped up on the technical battle plan?🤜Do you flat-out just need a proven battle plan so you’re not sitting exposed?‍I’m your man for the job!

Experience

1. VP, Strategic Partners and Distribution

   Palo Alto Networks

   Feb 2026 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Leading post-acquisition integration of CyberArk’s global distribution and channel ecosystem into Palo Alto Networks, aligning strategy, partner programs, and go-to-market execution to support platform expansion in identity security.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  B.S., Business Management - Focus on Management Information Systems

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Account Management
• Program Management
• Solution Selling
• Business Planning
• Direct Sales
• Voip
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Sales
• Sales Process
• Strategic Partnerships
• Network Security
• Storage
• Unified Communications
• Training
• Cloud Computing
• Product Management
• Sales Operations
• Customer Service
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Selling
• Management
• Saas