Kai Thomsen

Kai Thomsen is Director, Service Owner of Global Incident Response Services at the Industrial cyber security company Dragos, Inc. where he leads a team of analysts in responding to or proactively hunting for threats in customers’ ICS environments.

Prior to his role at Dragos, Inc. Kai was the lead Incident Responder at the German car manufacturer AUDI AG where played a key role in establishing an integrated IT defense team
responsible for enterprise IT, ICS, and connected car infrastructure. Before Audi, Kai worked for 14years in the steel industry for the engineering company SMS group, where he was responsible for internal IT defense as well as responding to threats at customers’ sites. Kai is also a Certified SANS Instructor in the ICS curriculum.

In 2019, Kai received the SANS ICS Cybersecurity Difference Maker Award for the EMEA region.