Ep. 86: In the Whitespace

Podcast: Crossing the Valley · Frontdoor Defense

Opublikowano: 2026-07-01

About Jackie Barbieri Jackie is the founder and CEO of Whitespace. She began her career supporting the counter-IED mission during the surge in Iraq, working as a red-team analyst. She was a threat emulator who studied the tactics, ideology, and bomb-making techniques of adversary networks, often in Arabic on the dark web, then fused that with classified collection. That experience, and witnessing what timely intelligence does for operators downrange, became the through-line of everything she’s built since. Jackie returned to grad school to study what changed after 9/11, and got pulled into an R&D co...