About • Leadership

Leaders who have
built, broken, and defended real systems.

Wolfe Defense Labs is led by a team of CISSPs, CISMs, and practicing vCISOs working alongside developers and security engineers. We bring together strategy, hands-on engineering, and offensive tradecraft so your program doesn’t live in theory.

CISSP & CISM-certified leaders Active vCISOs for real organizations Builders: developers & security engineers

The same people who advise on risk and governance also understand what it takes to get code shipped, systems hardened, and detections tuned.

Team

Leadership that spans boardroom, console, and code.

Below are representative roles and focus areas. You can adapt names, titles, and bios to match your actual leadership team and key contributors.

vCISO / Strategy

Chief Information Security Leadership

CISSP and CISM-certified leaders who have owned security programs end-to-end — from board reporting and risk registers to IR calls at 2 a.m. and platform hardening rollouts.

  • Program design and roadmap ownership
  • Board and executive communication
  • Bridging regulatory, business, and technical concerns
Engineering

Principal Security Engineers

Engineers who think in systems: telemetry paths, control placement, failure modes, and how to make configuration and detection changes stick at scale.

  • M365, Entra ID, Workspace, and SaaS hardening
  • Detection engineering and logging architectures
  • Automation, scripting, and platform integration
Development

Security-focused Developers

Developers who build internal tools, labs automation, and data pipelines – and know how to work with security and IT teams without breaking their workflows.

  • Custom tooling and glue code for assessments and labs
  • APIs, integrations, and reporting pipelines
  • Support for security product evaluations and rollouts
Credentials & experience

Certifications that back up lived experience.

Certifications don’t guarantee good outcomes — but they do show a shared language and discipline. We pair that with years of real-world work in security programs, engineering, and incident response.

CISSP & CISM on staff
Team members hold CISSP and CISM certifications, reflecting deep coverage of security domains, risk management, and governance. That knowledge shows up in how we frame tradeoffs and design programs.
Active vCISOs, not just advisors
Our vCISOs are actively responsible for real organizations — not just theoretical best practices. They bring those experiences directly into your engagements.
Developers and security engineers in the loop
When we suggest a change, we know what it takes to implement it: build pipelines, IaC, CI/CD impacts, change windows, and how to avoid breaking production.
Certified
CISSP, CISM, and other core security certs represented.
Hands-on
Developers and engineers write the code and configs.
Program-led
vCISOs accountable for long-term program health.
How we show up

Partners in the work, not just people in the room.

Good leadership isn’t about having the fanciest title on a slide — it’s about being willing to sit in the messy details with your team and help move them forward.

We participate, not just present

Leadership doesn’t disappear after a kickoff. We stay engaged in working sessions, reviews, and post-incident debriefs where the real learning happens.

  • Available for architecture and design reviews
  • Involved in tabletop exercises and IR planning
  • Present for key decision and tradeoff conversations

We translate between worlds

Our team is used to talking with boards, developers, security engineers, operations, and regulators — and making sure each group hears what it needs.

  • Clear, jargon-limited communication to executives
  • Enough depth and specificity for technical teams
  • Consistent narratives across decks, docs, and tickets

We design for your next 3–5 years

We’re not interested in quick wins that collapse later. Leadership decisions are made with your likely future state in mind, not just this quarter.

  • Architecture and program changes with staying power
  • Guidance that anticipates platform and threat shifts
  • Support for growing internal capability, not dependency

Want to meet the people behind Wolfe Defense Labs?

We’re happy to share more about our vCISO experience, engineering backgrounds, and how our team can plug into your existing leadership and technical groups.

Talk with Wolfe Labs Leadership