Cynet Brings On MacKenzie Brown to Turn Live Adversary Intelligence Into an Edge for MSPs

Cynet is sharpening its focus on adversary intelligence with the appointment of MacKenzie Brown as Vice President of Threat Intelligence Strategy, a move that reflects how quickly the economics of cyber defense are changing for managed service providers and their customers.

The company, Cynet, has built its reputation around a unified security platform designed to surface attacker behavior in real time. But visibility alone does not win modern cyber battles. Attackers automate faster than most defenders can triage alerts, forcing security teams to rely on intelligence that is not just accurate, but immediately actionable. Brown’s role is to turn Cynet’s raw telemetry into guidance that partners can actually use under pressure.

At the center of that effort is CyOps, Cynet’s always on internal threat intelligence and response team. The group continuously tracks campaigns, tooling, and attacker tradecraft across customer environments. Brown will act as the connective tissue between those frontline observations and the broader partner ecosystem, shaping education programs, hands on training, and community outreach aimed squarely at MSPs.

“MacKenzie is a rare leader who combines deep technical expertise with market-facing influence,” said Aviad Hasnis, chief technology officer at Cynet. “There is no better leader to ensure what we see on the platform becomes shared intelligence that improves outcomes for our customers, partners, and the MSP community.”

That emphasis on partners is deliberate. MSPs increasingly sit on the front lines of cyber defense for small and midsize organizations, yet they often lack the dedicated research teams available to large enterprises. Cynet has positioned itself as a partner first company, and Brown’s background in the IT channel is expected to influence both how intelligence is delivered and how the product itself evolves.

Before joining Cynet, Brown led the Adversary Pursuit Group at Blackpoint Cyber, where she helped formalize threat research and intelligence operations. Earlier in her career, she spent years on the incident response team at Microsoft, supporting customers during large scale global cyber investigations. That combination of frontline response and channel strategy has made her a prominent voice in the MSP community.

“Cynet has the telemetry to actually change the math for MSPs,” Brown said. “Bridging my experience at Microsoft and Blackpoint with Cynet’s visibility, we’re moving past ‘scare-ware’ tactics and handing partners the data that ensures the adversary is the one who has to play catch-up for a change.”

Brown is also widely known as a keynote speaker, a CRN Channel Chief, and an advocate for women in technology. Her work has consistently focused on demystifying threat intelligence, stripping away jargon and fear driven messaging in favor of insights that can be acted on in minutes, not months.

For Cynet, the hire signals a broader shift in how security vendors compete. As attack speed accelerates, the differentiator is no longer just detection, but the ability to translate attacker behavior into decisions partners can trust. By elevating threat intelligence strategy to the executive level, Cynet is betting that shared intelligence, delivered at the pace of modern attacks, is what will ultimately tilt the balance back toward defenders.