John Stoner

John Stoner

Security Strategist
Google Cloud

John Stoner is a Global Principal Security Strategist at Google Cloud and leverages his experience to improve users' capabilities in Security Operations, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence. He blogs on threat hunting and security operations and has built multiple APT threat emulations for blue team capture the flag events.

John has presented and led workshops at various industry symposia including FIRST (CTI, Tech Colloquium), BSides (SF, Las Vegas), SANS Summits (DFIR, Threat Hunting, Cloud and SIEM), WiCyS, Way West Hacking Fest, AISA and DefCon Packet Hacking Village. He also enjoys listening to what his former teammates referred to as "80s sad-timey music."

Better plumbing in security: Bringing pipes to SQL

John Stoner
2026-10-15 3:50 pm
2026-10-15 4:30 pm
Room 210

SQL pipe syntax makes SQL usable for security hunts and detection logic, potentially breaking down the query-language silos between SIEMs and analysts.

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