Kyle Croll is a U.S. Navy veteran, former NCAA student-athlete, and security strategist with expertise in executive protection, protective intelligence, operational risk management, and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). He currently serves as CTI Lead at Toyota Financial Services, where he helping to advance and build CTI program maturity, purple team operations, and threat hunting. Previously, as a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at UPS, he specialized in MacOS Security, incident response, security due diligence and M&A integration.

His current research focuses on agentic AI applications in CTI and red teaming, adversary infrastructure analysis for threat hunting, and the role of threat intelligence in securing development and AI lifecycles. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Cyber Operations from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.