Delivering Top-Shelf Cybersecurity
Our name is derived from the distillate that comes off a whiskey still, known as “white dog.” Just as a master distiller meticulously selects each ingredient to create a whiskey of exceptional quality, WhiteDog brings the same level of precision and expertise to cybersecurity.
WhiteDog’s mission is to help accelerate the security posture of every business—making enterprise-grade protection simple, scalable, and seamless.
Our Origin Story
In the late 1990s, our founder, Shahin Pirooz, helped pioneer the managed services industry, reshaping how businesses consumed IT. As CTO at CenterBeam—widely recognized as the first MSP—he made it possible for companies to offload IT complexity and focus on what they do best. Back then, delivering security was relatively simple: a few well-placed tools provided sufficient defense.
But the world has changed.
Today, threats emerge from every direction. Attackers constantly evolve their tactics, while security teams scramble to keep pace. The market is flooded with nearly 4,000 security vendors, each promising the latest breakthrough. Evaluating, integrating, and maintaining the right mix of tools has become an endless, expensive cycle.
Companies know they can’t keep up on their own, and they’re turning to trusted partners for solutions. But many of these partners are trapped in the same cycle: lacking deep security expertise, facing the high cost and time commitment of building a security practice, and fearing they’ll lose customers to more capable providers.
WhiteDog was founded to break this cycle. Shahin recognized that security, like IT before it, needed a new approach—one that strips away complexity while delivering an uncompromising defense. It’s time to extend the “as-a-service” model to security.
With WhiteDog, partners get an evergreen security solution backed by 24x7 security operations. No more tools sprawl. No more vetting, replacing, and retooling. Just expert-driven protection that allows you to focus on what matters: securing customers, growing your business, and staying ahead of the threats that never stop.
A Unified Approach to Security-as-a-Service
With WhiteDog, partners deliver an integrated, best-in-class cybersecurity platform—curated by us and backed by 24/7 security operations, including continuous incident response.
WhiteDog’s enterprise-grade security stack is pre-configured, ready to deploy, and built to scale. Our composable platform integrates 40+ commercial technologies and 10 open-source tools, continuously adapting to evolving threats—so you don’t have to keep chasing the next best thing.
In just 30 days, you can take a complete security portfolio to market—under your own brand. Managing customers is seamless, too. Our white-labeled customer portal is purpose-built to make security delivery effortless.
And flexibility? We’ve got that covered. Our platform isn’t all or nothing. With a modular approach, you can fill security gaps, integrate existing tools, and build a cohesive security posture that grows with your business.
Why Partners Choose WhiteDog
Our partners gain on-demand expertise, a complete portfolio of white-labeled security services, and the flexibility to meet customers where they are—helping them scale as their needs evolve. We’d like to have your back, too. Let’s solve your customers’ security challenges—today. Every solution comes with a 30-day onboarding guarantee.
Cheers to a more secure future!
Meet Our Leadership Team
Shahin Pirooz
Shahin is a senior cyber security & technology executive with deep expertise in building Managed Security and Cloud Services. He serves as WhiteDog Cyber’s technology executive and visionary, as well as the technology executive/advisor for the managed services ecosystem we serve.
Shahin has spent his career deeply immersed in the cloud and cyber security. Over 20 years ago, he set the pace for moving on-premises IT infrastructure to the cloud. He’s recognized for many firsts to the market, forming the subscription computing, CSP, and MSP models.
He’s held critical leadership roles at leading-edge organizations including EDS, responsible for key clients such as Palm, Philips, VLSI, Netigy, and many others. He offers an uncommon blend of experience in the full product lifecycle, strategic planning, sales, and service delivery across diverse industries, including telecommunications, managed services, cyber security, service providers, and software companies.
His passion for knowledge and innovation extends beyond his vocation; he’s a lifelong learner, and his curiosity leads him down any number of different paths. In fact, his appreciation for whiskey inspired Shahin to develop an app to track different brands, pricing, and availability. (Keeping him at the forefront of whiskey procurement).
Kurt Klein
As a founding and funding force behind WhiteDog, Kurt brings four decades of experience and insight to the company’s strategic direction and growth. Throughout his career, Kurt has been a pivotal figure in the channel, making him an invaluable asset to WhiteDog and its partners.
With 30 years as a VAR/system integrator CEO and as the second-generation leader of a family-owned business, Kurt has successfully guided his business, clients, and employees through change. His sharp industry insights help him anticipate market shifts and technological advancements, keeping customers and partners at the forefront of innovation.
Brian Moody
With more than 3 decades in the tech channel, Brian’s role is to accelerate growth with our Managed Security Services partners. Having served in a variety of sales leadership positions, he excels at defining the “why”, and then connecting the “how” (employing customized technology and strategy) to achieve a successful business outcome.
His powerful combination of technical and business savvy makes him WhiteDog’s secret sauce for partner and sales enablement.
In an industry where the only constant is change, Brian has continually adapted to shifts in technology and business throughout his career. As an enthusiastic angler in his personal time, he’s also passionate about understanding what makes the fish bite.
Kirstin Burke
As WhiteDog’s CMO, Kirstin not only elevates our brand but leads marketing enablement for our MSP partners. She’s led marketing strategy and growth initiatives for more than 20 years, and she knows the security and MSP market well. As VP of marketing at CenterBeam, cited as the first managed service provider, she crafted messaging to help develop the emerging MSP space. Kirstin understands the pressures, economics, and challenges MSPs face.
To balance out her life, Kirstin is also an avid reader with a sweet spot for history. A love of running and the outdoors provides unstructured space to spark her creative magic. Kirstin also exemplifies WhiteDog’s commitment to service: she devotes time and energy to children and families locally and globally, equipping them to take on the future with hope. And, of course, two dogs are part of her pack.
Joe Dickens
Joe knows managed services. And that’s a good thing, since he leads Technical Operations WhiteDog, ensuring that both our Partners and their end customers receive the level of service and support they require to keep them safe.
His operational expertise has been honed over the course of three decades and many global leadership roles—building, scaling and supporting technical operations. In his words, “making sure the service delivery experience we sold is what the customer is getting day in and day out.” He expertly manages the people, process and tech necessary in order to keep clients secure. And his favorite part of his job? The people. Active problem solving for clients to help keep them safe; and serving as a mentor for the next generation of tech leaders.
His firsts include being on the development and support team of the industry’s first managed services provider, CenterBeam, as well as Counterpane, the pioneer of the managed security services space. So when we say Joe knows Security, we aren’t barking in the wind.
Joe refined his ability to “scale” early on with his twins. He is an avid cyclist and the founding member of B³—Bourbon, Brews and Bikes. Because those go well together.