Eric Freeman named Chief Information Security Officer at WRITER

WRITER named Eric Freeman as its first Chief Information Security Officer. He most recently served as Head of Security at Patreon and previously held security leadership roles at Blockdaemon and BlockFi.

According to the release on Business Wire, Freeman's job is to expand and accelerate the company's end-to-end security strategy for building, deploying and supervising agents. The company says Freeman will work on strengthening authentication and oversight of agents and on designing zero-trust and least-privilege frameworks for AI agents in enterprise environments. He will also expand platform features that apply AI to security through automated analysis, continuous testing and triage, the company says. According to WRITER, Freeman's team is building autonomous agents to test the company's defenses constantly from the inside, an approach he calls purple teaming at machine scale.

According to the company, Freeman has more than a decade of experience building and scaling security programs in infrastructure, blockchain, SaaS and fintech. At Patreon, the release says, Freeman led initiatives covering enterprise security, incident response, regulatory compliance and secure-by-default engineering. The company says his earlier titles were Director of Security at BlockFi and VP of Security and Reliability at Blockdaemon. A WRITER blog post says Freeman got into security after teaching himself to hack his employer's computer while he worked as a line cook.

The company says it was founded in 2020 and counts Vanguard, Uber, Marriott and Accenture among its hundreds of customers. According to the company, teams use its end-to-end platform to build, activate and supervise AI agents grounded in company data and running on WRITER's LLMs. The release says WRITER holds ISO/IEC 42001 for AI risk management, ISO/IEC 27701 for privacy management and ISO/IEC 27001 for information security. WRITER says its headquarters is in San Francisco and lists offices in Austin, Chicago, London and New York.