Chief Security Officer.
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
WHAT I DO
Chief Security Officer
I am Chief Security Officer at Enkrypt AI (AI security for the enterprise, from guardrails and red-teaming to protecting custom LLMs).
I also advise executives on tech, security, and company behaviors, from Fortune 100 banks to biotech start-ups. Current clients include a small handful of young companies including: Andesite (AI-driven SOC transformation) and AppOmni (SaaS Security).
Pro bono work serving on the Miami-Dade College BILT (business industry leadership team) and on the Advisory Board of Black Girls Hack.
FORMER
Deputy CISO at AWS
Security in all 3 branches of US Govt (Federal Communications Commission, Department of Homeland Security, United States Senate, Department of Defense)
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC ROLES HELD
Penn State Law School, Pittsburgh, PA. Adjunct Professor and Fellow, Center for Computational and Data Sciences / University of Maryland, Washington, DC. Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity / University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity
ACADEMIC ARTICLES ON
Security, AI, Robotics, SEC regulations, Child Exploitation, Naional Security and Terrorist Speech
C.V. AT A GLANCE
EDUCATION / Harvard College, Harvard Law School. WORK / 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.
MERRITT BAER
FEATURE ARTICLES
IN THE PRESS – SELECT FULL ARTICLES
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
SERVICES
HOW CAN I HELP?
ADVISOR / BOARD MEMBER
CISO peer / Product validation / Product placement / Security behaviors / Threat landscape
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
AI security / Security behaviors / How CISOs make decisions / How security changes in a world where AI exists
Investor conversations
Security and AI market / Traits of highly effective security shops/ Reporting to the Board about AI and security
WHAT'S CURRENTLY ON MY RADAR?
AI
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.
VENDORS
Which vendors to choose: We talk a lot about features but we don’t talk enough about operationalizing the tech.
Innovation
What does shallow innovation look like? How will supply chain and geopolitics influence company behaviors?
