Brjánn Brekkan

About Brjánn Brekkan

Director of Compete Intelligence and Strategy. Cyber-security vendors need to be agile in evolving solutions for organizations to to respond to threat from sophisticated attacks and threats. The Security compete team is accountable for competitive strategy across Microsoft Security. Previously Director of Posture and Exposure Management introducing new proctive security soluti0n to market and before that Group PM Manager in Identity and Network Access Division, I have been in the identity and security space for over 20 years at Microsoft across sales, marketing, consulting, engineering and now back in marketing. Moved to the US in 2008 from Sweden. Prior to Microsoft I was a trainer on infrastructure, identity and security across Microsoft and HP. Most common questions I get is if my name is really spelled that way - yes I\'m from Iceland and that is Brian in Icelandic.

Experience

1. Director

   Microsoft

   Jan 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Lead Security Compete team accountable for competitve intelligence and strategy for Microsoft Security business.

Education

• Red Oak High School

  High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

  1988 — 1989

• Uppsala University

  N/A, Computer Science and English

  2002 — 2005

Skills

• Forefront Identity Manager (Fim)
• Pre-Sales
• Infrastructure
• Hyper-V
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• IT Strategy
• Business-to-Business (B2b)
• Computer Security
• Cyber-Security
• Microsoft Azure
• Storytelling
• Microsoft Technologies
• Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Cluster
• Sharepoint
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Solution Selling
• Messaging
• Pki
• Office 365
• Identity Federation
• Saas
• Microsoft Products
• Architectures
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Program Management
• Cloud Computing
• Windows Azure
• Enterprise Solution Selling
• Virtualization
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Product Management
• Identity Management