AI & Security Executive.
Company Advisor. Board Member.
LOVE / Emerging tech, AI security, high tech companies, national security, the future of the internet.
ALSO / Sunrise walks with my rescue pug mix, toddler beach days and buffalo wings
AI & Security Executive.
Company Advisor. Board Member.
LOVE / Emerging tech, AI security, high tech companies, national security, the future of the internet.
ALSO / Sunrise walks with my rescue pug mix, toddler beach days and buffalo wings
EDUCATION / Harvard College, Harvard Law School. WORK / Advisor (G2i); former CSO at Enkrypt AI; former Deputy CISO at AWS. EXPERTISE / Emerging tech, AI, Security, Enterprise CISOs, Venture Backed Investments. MEDIA / Quoted in WSJ, Forbes, VentureBeat and many others.


IN THE PRESS – SELECT FULL ARTICLES
VentureBeat: Safety Guardrails Blocked Hugging Face’s Defenders, Not the Attacker, When an AI Agent Breached its Systems
You Get to Die (and other rights AI will never have)
VentureBeat: Crowdstrike’s Massive Cyber Outage 1 Year Later: Lessons Enterprises Can Learn to Improve Security
Why I Joined Enkrypt AI: Merritt Baer
Welcoming Merritt Baer as Chief Security Officer at Enkrypt AI
VentureBeat: MCP stacks have a 92% Exploit Probability
VentureBeat: DeepSeek Helps Speed Up Threat Detection While Raising National Security Concerns
AWS Security Profiles: Merritt Baer
Enterprise Level Security at Scale: Insights from AWS
Wall Street Journal: Materiality Seen as Tough Task in new SEC Cyber Rules
Wall Street Journal: Cyber Experience on Boards Still Seen as Critical in New SEC Rules
Santa Clara Law and Tech: Who is the Witness to an Internet Crime? The Confrontation Clause, Digital Forensics, and Child Pornography
CISO peer / Product validation / Product placement / Security behaviors / Threat landscape
AI security / Security behaviors / How CISOs make decisions / How security changes in a world where AI exists
Security and AI market / Traits of highly effective security shops/ Reporting to the Board about AI and security

We talk a lot about AI but don’t talk enough about how security and company behaviors will change in a world where AI exists.

Which vendors to choose: We talk a lot about features but we don’t talk enough about operationalizing the tech.
What does shallow innovation look like? How will supply chain and geopolitics influence company behaviors?