Loseini "Valo" Kamara
Founder & CEO, VALO Technologies
Background
Loseini "Valo" Kamara is the founder & CEO of VALO Technologies. He has spent approximately a decade as a senior network security engineer in environments where the regulatory and operational stakes are highest.
His career has included security engineering work at Brooke Army Medical Center — the Department of Defense's largest military hospital — where he supported the network and security infrastructure as a civilian engineer. From there, his work has spanned a state health agency and major banking institutions, building experience across HIPAA, GLBA, FFIEC, and federal security frameworks in production environments under real regulatory pressure.
His technical depth is concentrated in the platforms enterprise security programs are actually built on: Palo Alto Networks (next-generation firewalls, Prisma Cloud, Cortex XDR), Microsoft Defender and Sentinel, F5 BIG-IP, and Cisco Umbrella. He holds the Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Engineer credential (PCCSE) along with CISM, CompTIA SecurityX, PenTest+, and CySA+.
He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, and an MBA in IT Management. The combination — deep technical execution and formal business education — is intentional. Security programs that aren't aligned with business strategy don't survive contact with the rest of the organization.
Why he founded VALO Technologies
After a decade securing networks inside large institutions — military medicine, public health, banking — the pattern became hard to ignore. The organizations that needed serious security help most weren't the ones already buying it. They were the small and mid-sized clinics, the regional banks and credit unions, the mid-market law firms and accounting practices. Same regulatory pressure. Same threat exposure. None of the budget for a full-time security executive.
VALO Technologies was founded to serve that market with the same caliber of work he'd been doing inside enterprises — built down to fit organizations under 500 employees, not built up from a generalist IT shop.
Outside the firm
Valo lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is involved in community charitable work, including Ramadan giving campaigns supporting communities in Africa. He has a personal interest in African geopolitics and its intersection with cybersecurity — a topic he explores publicly through the Firewall & Frontlines podcast.
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