Built by security practitioners,
for security practitioners.

CounterMeasure was founded on a simple belief: every security team deserves to know exactly how well they're covered - not just feel like they might be.

Our team

Meet the team

Dave Baumgartner

CEO & Founder

Over 25 years in cybersecurity. Ran a $40M professional services practice at Mandiant and led a >$100M MDR practice at Google.

Jason Lynch

CPO & Co-Founder

17+ years building high-performing security operations teams at Fortune 500 organizations. Former Army airborne ranger.

Tim Crothers

CTO

40+ years at GE, UHG, Google, Target, and Mandiant. Former Mandiant CSO. Author/co-author of 17 books.

Paul Hutelmyer

Solution Architect

15+ years across detection engineering, behavioral risk analytics, and AI-enabled security workflows.

Wyatt Roersma

Principal Engineer

15+ years in DFIR. Runs the GrrCON DFIR CTF since 2013. Built AI-driven security tooling in Rust.

Mike Burns

Head of Security Solutions

Security architect with 15+ years of experience, including consulting and operational roles at Mandiant, Google, and Cisco Meraki. Specializes in cloud security, identity, and incident response — having served on the front lines of APT-led campaigns.

Our mission

Defense confidence, fully measured.

We started CounterMeasure after watching talented security teams struggle to answer a deceptively simple question: "Are we actually covered against the threats that matter?" The answer was almost always "we think so" - a guess dressed up as a strategy.

We believe security teams deserve better than gut feel. CounterMeasure exists to bring measurement, clarity, and confidence to every security program - from lean teams to global enterprises.

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Built by security practitioners,for security practitioners.