Michael Leland

Michael Leland joined Island in October 2024 as Field CTO, bringing over 30 years of data networking, operations, and cybersecurity domain expertise. He formerly served as Head of Technical Marketing and Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist at SentinelOne where he was responsible for messaging and strategic development of their XDR product roadmap as well as the identity security portfolio. Prior to SentinelOne he held the title of Chief Technical Strategist for McAfee. Michael was the Co-Founder and CTO of NitroSecurity – later acquired by McAfee - where he was responsible for developing and implementing their overall SIEM technology vision and roadmap and has held senior technical management positions at Cabletron and Avaya.