Leaders from Google Chronicle, Snowflake, Vectra.AI, SentinelOne, and Roblox unite to shape the next generation of cyber defense

DeepTempo, a pioneer in behavioral threat detection powered by deep learning, today announced the formation of the DeepTempo Cyber Intelligence Council, a strategic advisory body composed of industry-defining leaders from the front lines of cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, AI innovation, and national defense.

The council brings together distinguished security veterans who have led security transformations at companies including Google Chronicle, SentinelOne, Snowflake, Roblox, Microsoft Azure, and the U.S. national security community. Their collective expertise will help guide Tempo, DeepTempo’s flagship platform that combines its proprietary LogLM with advanced behavioral analytics, to stay ahead of polymorphic, agentic, and zero-click AI-driven attacks that increasingly outpace legacy detection systems.

Council Members Include:

• Chris Bates, Former CTO and CIO at SentinelOne
• Julie Tsai, Former CISO at Roblox and Director InfoSec at Walmart
• Haider Dost, Head of Global Threat Detection and Intelat Snowflake; formerly with Capital One
• Shapor Naghibzadeh, Co-founder of Google Chronicle, Former Head of AI at Google Cloud Security
• Gunter Ollman, Former CSO, Microsoft Cloud & AI and Vectra AI; CTO of IOActive and Devo; currently CTO at Cobalt
• Dr. David Bray, Former FCC CIO and current CEO at LeadDoAdapt Ventures, and Distinguished Fellow at The Stimson Center
• Steve Zalewski, Former CISO at Levi Strauss & Co., and CISO-in-Residence at Professional Association of CISOs
• JP Bourget, Founder and President at Blue Cycle
• Jeff Frazier, Former VP of Global Public Sector at Snowflake
• Christos Kalantzis, Current CTO at HUMAN security; formerly CTO at SecurityScorecardand VP of Engineering at Tenable
• Dr. Elly Rostoum, Managing Director at Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies and Adjunct Professor at John Hopkins
• Matt Baldwin, Former Director of Cloud at NVIDIA, Founder of StackPointCloud and Kubernetes Communities Pioneer

A Strategic Braintrust for the Age of Autonomous Threats

“The DeepTempo Cyber Intelligence Council unites pioneers from across security, cloud, AI, and national defense to serve as a strategic braintrust for navigating the next era of digital defense,” said Evan Powell, CEO of DeepTempo. “Agentic AI and polymorphic malware are rewriting the threat landscape, these adversaries adapt in seconds, evade traditional controls, and can execute multi-stage campaigns autonomously. This council ensures DeepTempo stays ahead by pairing technical ingenuity with operational realism, enabling defenders to detect, contextualize, and respond faster than ever before.”

Council members will advise on product direction, validate DeepTempo’s LogLM-powered behavioral detection against real-world threats, and champion the shift from noisy, alert-centric models to adaptive, context-aware detection.

In an advisory capacity, these accomplished professionals will bring a rare and unique combination of executive leadership, technical innovation, and field-tested cybersecurity expertise. Their involvement will support the fusion of strategic foresight with technical ingenuity at the highest level.

Why Now: The Escalating Threat from Agentic AI

Recent autonomous, decision-making AI systems are capable of:

• Zero-click exploitation triggered by LLM interactions rather than user clicks
• Polymorphic malware that rewrites itself in seconds to evade detection
• Multi-stage attacks executed at machine speed, often across federated environments
• Stealth techniques that blend malicious activity into normal traffic patterns

Legacy tools built on static rules and historical indicators can’t keep pace. Tempo’s proprietary LogLM, conceived, built, and trained entirely by DeepTempo, addresses these challenges head-on. By understanding “normal” behavior at the network level, Tempo detects anomalies in real time, reconstructs full threat narratives, and delivers high-confidence alerts with <1% false positives.

About DeepTempo

DeepTempo offers deep-learning-based cybersecurity solutions that safeguard enterprises and service providers against cyberattacks. Leveraging its foundation LogLMs, the company’s cybersecurity solutions are on the Snowflake Native App Marketplace and also available for deployment in on-premise security data lakes, helping organizations optimize security spending and enhance operational efficiency while maintaining robust threat protection without lock-ins. To find out more, go to https://www.deeptempo.ai or check out the company's LinkedIn page, YouTube channel, and Medium posts.

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