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/AI Officer
I am a classic Chief Security/AI Officer.
Government background; law degree; infrastructure and cloud security; published in crypto(graphy), national security, SEC regulations, and CSAM; venture-backed security companies.
I advise executives on tech, security, and company behaviors, from Fortune 100 banks to biotech start-ups.
Currently working with a small handful of companies including: Andesite (AI-driven SOC transformation) and G2i (AI implementation and human data layers).
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
Chief Security Officer at venture-backed companies Enkrypt AI and Reco
Security in all 3 branches of US Govt: Federal Communications Commission, Department of Homeland Security, United States Senate, Department of Defense
Quoted in:
VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Baltimore Sun, LawFare, and more
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
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
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?
