For two decades, I have been building and breaking security operations. I have trained teams to defend against nation-state actors, developed incident detection technologies, and watched the industry throw more people at problems that were never designed for people to solve.
Something has to change.
Today, I am excited to announce that I am joining 7AI as Chief Information Security Officer.
The decision came down to a simple observation: organizations operate under what I call the Security Operations Triangle. If people primarily drive investigations in the SOC, you must compromise between quality, consistency, and cost. You can usually optimize for two, but not all three.
Agentic AI changes that equation entirely.
At 7AI, I have seen AI SOC agents complete security investigations in minutes with a level of thoroughness that would take human analysts hours. But here is what excites me most: this is not about replacing the talented people who do this work. It is about eliminating the mechanical tasks that keep them trapped in alert queues.
When I think about the best security professionals I have worked with, their value was never in clicking buttons or enriching IOCs. It was in connecting dots. It was in asking the question no one else thought to ask. It was in hunting threats before they became incidents.
That work requires creativity, intuition, and deep expertise. It is inherently human.
The tragedy of modern SOCs is that we rarely let these people do that work. Instead, we bury them in Tier 1 triage, false positive dismissal, and endless context switching. The cost is not just time. It is creativity, focus, morale, and ultimately, the security of the organization.
No mission is more inspiring for me than to reimagine how future security programs will look as we leverage AI in more meaningful and impactful ways.
7AI's approach is different. The company does not try to bolt AI onto systems designed for human operators. Instead, it built from scratch: AI agents that autonomously investigate alerts, correlate signals across security tools, and drive investigation outcomes at machine speed.
But what really sold me was PLAID: People-Led, AI-Driven. Every customer gets dedicated AI Security Engineers who work directly with their environment. The AI does the investigation work. Humans lead the strategy, tune the outcomes, and focus on proactive defense.
This is not a black box. It is a partnership.
In my role, I will build and lead the security organization that supports customers adopting this model. That means expanding our team of elite security experts and AI Security Engineers who work directly with enterprises to operationalize AI-driven investigations.
The goal is not to remove humans from security operations. It is to eliminate the mechanical work that keeps talented analysts trapped in alert queues. When AI agents handle investigations, security teams can finally focus on the work that actually strengthens security: threat hunting, proactive defense, and innovation.
If you are a security professional who wants to spend your days doing work that matters, I hope you will consider joining us.