Groups: CARE Senior Fellows
Auzzie K. Brown is a senior principal architect with AT&T Public Sector, serving as a technical visionary for cybersecurity services. He is a cybersecurity and information technology (IT) professional with over 30 years of experience.
Mr. Brown previously served as a vice president in the White House Business Unit of L-3 where he was responsible for delivering information technology services to the President of the United States and his National Security staff. He has also served as the Deputy Secretary of Technology and Chief Operations Officer for the State of Alabama, where he planned IT and Cybersecurity support for the historic 2017 U.S. Senate Special Election.
Mr. Brown has held CIO and CISO executive positions with First Tennessee Bank, WestStar (J.G. WENWORTH) and First Guaranty Mortgage Corporations, leading teams to deliver innovative IT and cybersecurity solutions that significantly increased annual revenue for these organizations.
He co-founded and served as a Managing Partner of RedWolf Cybersecurity Group, LLC.
Mr. Brown served for nearly 24 years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was an Aide-De-Camp to Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Deputy Commander, United States Army Information Systems Command. He trained and deployed soldiers and IT assets in support of “Operation Uphold Democracy” to remove the military regime installed by the Haitian coup d’état that overthrew the elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Mr. Brown also served as an assistant to Dr. John P. White, Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was appointed by Deputy White to the committee that developed the strategy for a $1.2B Pentagon renovation. He planned and established a first-of-its-kind U.S. Army Theatre Cyber Security Operations Center in East Asia. General David Petraeus’ cited Mr. Brown for a top performance evaluation for innovative initiatives to modernize the U.S. Army’s, XVIII Airborne Corps’ IT capabilities.
Mr. Brown played a key role in a historic initiative to deploy Wi-Fi aboard fixed wing airplanes, resulting in a technology transfer to the private sector and consumer use onboard commercial airlines on a global scale. His platoon was cited by The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for exceptional Mobile Satellite Communications support to Warfighters during the conflict, “Operation Just Cause”, resulting in the capture of Panamanian General and Dictator, Manuel Noriega. And, as a First Lieutenant, he was directly responsible for management, capacity planning and staffing of the Hot-Link communications enterprise used as the primary means of communication by The President of the United States and Russia in the event of a Nuclear War.
Mr. Brown hails from Tuskegee, Alabama.