Management Team

Daniel Kennedy

Daniel Kennedy leads initiatives in policy and operational security management, directs strategy on risk assessment and certification, and is head of business continuity planning and disaster recover objectives.

Prior to Praetorian Security Group, Daniel was the Global Head of Information Security at D.B. Zwirn & Co. where he managed the firm's information security program. He was specifically responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the firm's information security policies. He also managed security metrics reporting, the security awareness and education program, security incident response, security audit, and developing the firm's security technology strategy. In this role he worked closely with the firm's CIO, COO, head of compliance, head of legal, head of infrastructure, head of client services, and overseas IT managers.

Prior to D.B. Zwirn, Daniel was Vice President and Program Manager for the application security program at Pershing LLC, a division of the Bank of New York. Daniel's responsibilities included management of the firm's application security program, coordination of application vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, application security training, documentation of secure coding guidelines, and development of the firm's application security SDLC. He was the primary liaison for application security concerns between application development and teams such as the Information Security Office, Internal Audit, Information Risk Management (IRM), and the business teams. He served on several firm committees including the Infrastructure Security Workgroup, Security Architecture, and chartered and chaired the firm's Application Security Council, an interdisciplinary group consisting of application developers and information security subject matter experts.

His previous positions at Pershing included development management and systems' engineering positions building the firm's web applications for facilitating online brokerage. He has also been employed at Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette Inc. in a technology analyst role for the Treasury area.

Daniel holds a Masters of Science degree in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, a Masters of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University, and a Bachelors of Science in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University. He is certified as a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council, a CISSP, and has a NASD Series 7 license

Marty J. Piccinich

Marty J. Piccinich is responsible for the incident response and forensics analysis strategies. He also leads the engineering and design of security assessment, response, and hardening of Microsoft based operating systems and Microsoft server and application platforms.

Prior to Praetorian Security Group, Marty was Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure at D.B. Zwirn & Co. He held this position for four years, managing a global team of engineers; the team was responsible for the global network, storage architecture, virtualization strategy, Windows and Linux server infrastructure, and enterprise messaging. He ensured compliance with an ITIL based change management process for Infrastructure, introducing rigid testing procedures, CMMI style software control board approval, and related processes rarely seen in the hedge fund IT world.

In 2005, he led a team at Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas, responsible for building a world class infrastructure for a multi-billion dollar property. From 2001 to 2005, he was an Assistant Vice President at Marsh and McLennan Companies, in charge of the global Microsoft engineering team responsible for an infrastructure spanning 100 countries and serving 60,000 clients. In this role, he mixed vast technical expertise with a firm hand on IT Governance, transgressing the IT organization in a position to efficiently progress through Sarbanes Oxley compliance objectives. From 1997 to 2005, he worked as Technical Services Manager for Global Telesystems, Inc., based in London, England with a pan-European presence and Qwest Communications, a tier one network and internet hosting solutions provider. Prior to that, he held positions with Earthweb, Inc. and Bankers Trust Company. He is currently attending New York University and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.