Scott Jarkoff is the Director, Intelligence Strategy, APJ & META, at CrowdStrike, where he directs the Asia-Pacific & Japan, and Middle East threat intelligence business. Scott serves on a global team entrusted with empowering sales of CrowdStrike’s world renown, best-of-breed, government-grade threat intelligence. He advises and guides customers on operationalizing and integrating threat intelligence within a holistic intelligence-led security strategy. Scott demonstrates the dominance an actionable threat intelligence-led security strategy yields in today’s highly contested threat landscape.

Scott is based in Tokyo where he masterminds all facets of the threat intelligence business, directing the intelligence portfolio across the APJ & META regions. He has over twenty-five years cyber security and intelligence experience, working for the US Department of Defense, and the private sector.

Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Scott worked at McAfee in Tokyo, Japan as a Senior Security Advisor focusing on evangelizing US DoD-centric cyber security solutions, with a strong emphasis on the Japanese government and critical infrastructure sectors. He also directed and led the introduction of McAfee threat intelligence services in the Japanese market.

Scott regularly presents at events all over the globe, and is frequently interviewed by various Asia-Pacific & Japan based media outlets on emerging threats, nation state and ecrime attacks, and other cyber security news topics.

Before joining McAfee, Scott worked for the US government for over twenty years, the most recent as the Chief of Cyber Security at United States Forces Japan. At USFJ he was responsible for overseeing DoD cyber security strategy and cyber situational awareness for the U.S. military components in Japan.

Scott leveraged DoD intelligence capabilities to develop U.S. and Japan cross-government cyber security strategy, managing the USFJ cyber security program, and commanding the USFJ security incident response team.