George Lamont is a leading expert on cyber force readiness. Prior to joining IronNet, Col. Lamont was the Director of Exercises and Training at U.S. Cyber Command, a position that capped a 27-year military service career in cyber operations and full-spectrum communications. He authored at U.S. Cyber Command the first-ever Joint Cyber Training & Certification Standards and Cyber Flag exercise series, which serves today as the Defense Department's gold-standard for building a premier cyberspace workforce for the nation.

As CIO/CISO of IronNet Cybersecurity, Col. Lamont laid the foundations for and continues the successful execution of the company’s Information Security Management System. In 2017-2019 his efforts lead to the initial and subsequent annual audits and attestations of SOC2/Type I & II, ISO/IEC 27001 certification, and Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with enhanced data protection laws to support current and future company products and platforms to protect the company brand and create business growth opportunities. Col. Lamont is a skilled/recognized speaker and authority teaching CISOs around the world how to improve their companies’ security posture. Col. Lamont continues to bring the same rigor, discipline, and methodologies to the private sector he used in his military career, helping companies build highly skilled teams as part of IronNet’s end-to-end cybersecurity solution and threat intelligence information sharing framework.

Col. Lamont holds a BS in Math & Electrical Engineering from University of New Hampshire and MBA from Oklahoma City University. Col. Lamont is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.