Weaponized Trust: Inside the CrowdStrike 2026 Threat Hunting Report

Adam Meyers leads CrowdStrike’s Threat Intelligence business, directing a globally dispersed team of cyber threat experts. Together, they track criminal, state-sponsored, and nationalist cyber adversary groups across the globe, producing actionable intelligence to protect customers. He oversees the development and deployment of AI, machine learning, reverse engineering, natural language processing, and other technologies to detect suspicious and malicious cyber behavior and stop increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Meyers’ work continues to transform cybersecurity.

For over 18 years, Cristian Rodriguez has been a trusted advisor to cybersecurity leaders across numerous industries. Cristian advises executives through the difficult process of investing in new cyber technologies and implementing related policies. As part of the initial 130 employees, Cristian has been a mainstay at CrowdStrike, contributing to key thought leadership on mapping to compliance standards and leading an initiative to assist with securing local government and healthcare facility systems via turnkey deployment models.

Jared is a cybersecurity leader with 22+ years of experience, currently serving as a Director on the CrowdStrike OverWatch team. Prior to joining CrowdStrike four years ago, he led VMware Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit and its Nation State and Advanced Tactics group. Early in his career, Jared conducted digital forensics in law enforcement, supporting multiple FBI task forces, and later worked as an intrusion analyst and reverse engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense. He also spent nearly a decade delivering commercial incident response across several firms. Jared has taught graduate-level courses in Windows forensics and has guest lectured on memory forensics.