Our mission

Protect businesses from threats

IGNITE Cyber is focused on enabling secure technology adoption through intelligent business decisions. Our efforts are based on providing technology and services to enable a secure and stable business environment for everyone.

Educate & help

We help companies grow technology, educate people, and advance their business by dissolving technology roadblocks.

Give back

IGNITE Cyber is based on give-back! We bring new talent into the Cyber Security field and provide free tools & services to help the industry.

Founders

Chuck Sirois

Chuck (Charles) Sirois is a US Navy veteran who brings more than 25 years of enabling secure technology adoption for commercial and government organizations to Ingite Cyber. Chuck is a hands-on business security practitioner and security tool developer.

Throughout his career Chuck has delivered security strategy, architecture, and impleme

Throughout his career Chuck has delivered security strategy, architecture, and implementation for global enterprises, federal civilian agencies, US defense agencies, government contractors, and critical national infrastructure. In this work, Chuck has discovered, stopped, and mitigated national security attacks, commercial cyber attacks, insider threats, and espionage.

Chuck is the coder/ creator of emailSpoofTest.com, DLPtoolbox.com, and numerous open-source Active Directory management tools. Chuck is also the creator of the underlying technologies for the aforementioned platforms like web application firewall, freemium licensing, testing automation, and self-defense mechanisms.

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Alec Sirois

Chuck Sirois

Alec Sirois has made it his career mission to understand adversary operations, with more than a decade of immersive Blackhat/ Red Team cybersecurity experience to maximize business defensibility.

Alec is the creator of ESC (Email Security Community), Phishable, and co-creator of Spoofy, EmailSpoofTest.com, DLPtoolbox.com, and Ignite Cyber.

Alec leads pentesting operations, bugbounty programs, the Ignite email attack surface management program, and system architecture at Ignite Cyber.

Cyber security is in Alec's DNA. As the son of Chuck Sirois, Alec was immersed in cyber security from an early age.

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Visionary Contributors

Mark Small

William Walters

Clayton Fields

Mark Small is a Global Sales, CX and Revenue Operations leader who now serves as a Strategic Advisor to startups and investors.

Mark has extensive background in scaling and leading global organizations for renowned SaaS and cybersecurity companies including Oracle, McAfee, Proofpoint, and Cofense.

Mark’s expertise spans incubation, early-stage, and emerging growth companies. He helps founders, investors, CROs, and CEOs establish successful go-to-market strategies and build high performance teams.

Mark has been deeply involved working for and with leading email security providers. He provides heavy contributions to Ignite Cyber and is excited about the key role the Email Spoof Test service plays in making business email communication safer and more secure.

Clayton Fields

William Walters

Clayton Fields

Clayton Fields is a technical sales expert helping to convert messaging into buyers language. He brings 25 years of go to market experience having helped numerous startups accelerate brand awareness and sales.

These emerging technology efforts include the first intrusion prevention system for active directory, the first AI based endpoint security, the first AI based DLP, and the first hyper distributed cloud storage system. These startups were acquired by Symantec, Blackberry, Palo Alto Networks, and PacketFabric respectively.

Prior to Clayton's focus on startups, he worked for 15 years supporting emerging technology sales efforts for Dell Technologies where he built 12 new markets and started ground up businesses for the company.

Clayton is well-versed in creating first to market high-value offerings and continually guides the strategic success of Ignite Cyber.

William Walters

Richard (William) Walters is a distinguished US Navy veteran and accomplished business professional with over 20 years of experience in the corporate sector.

Richard holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Rice University.

Richard has demonstrated exceptional leadership and strategic acumen, contributing significantly to the success of various business ventures including Ignite Cyber and multiple veteran driven startups.

With a passion for business and a commitment to continuous growth and innovation, Richard continues to make meaningful contributions to Ignite Cyber.