Rex Booth is the Chief Information Security Officer at SailPoint. In this role, he leads the full spectrum of cybersecurity strategy and operations at SailPoint, including enterprise operational security and product security.

Rex came to SailPoint from the White House where he served as a Senior Policy Advisor and the Director of Stakeholder Engagement in the Office of the National Cyber Director. While there, he developed and executed strategies for national-level engagement with private sector and international stakeholders to pursue a more secure and resilient cyberspace.

For over two decades, Rex has focused on the full spectrum of cybersecurity – from secure web development and architecting one of the first in-house SIEMs, to federal enterprise risk management, to incident response against state actors, national and international cyber collaboration and coordination, and operational leadership.

Rex has served as the Chief of Cyber Threat Analysis at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), CISO of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, and Deputy CISO of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in addition to holding various positions at private sector companies including Mandiant, Grant Thornton, and others.

Rex holds degrees in political science, computer science, and technology management. He lives in Alexandria, VA, with his wife and three children.

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