Mario Duarte

Mario Duarte has been appointed CISO at non-human IAM company Aembit. He joins from Snowflake, where he worked for nearly a decade, most recently as VP of Security.

Duarte will focus on Aembit's efforts to serve the security community's needs as organizations increasingly shift toward cloud-native, distributed and automated environments, according to the release.

Duarte writes that he started in security in the late 1990s, carrying out pen-test activities for customers who wanted to uncover vulnerabilities in their enterprise networks. According to the release, he started out in red teaming and later took on leadership and technical roles on the defensive side. In his author profile, Duarte says he has worked as a security professional for more than 20 years across the financial, health care and retail sectors. Duarte says he has built and managed security teams and has managed HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO and PCI compliance initiatives for large and medium organizations. Before joining Snowflake, Duarte held senior security roles at organizations including Ross Stores, Moodys KMV and GoGrid, the release says. Duarte writes that in 2023 he stepped down as Snowflake's first VP of security after nine years there. Duarte first encountered Aembit during his time at Snowflake, according to the release.

Aembit says it provides workload identity and access management solutions to secure non-human identities such as service accounts, AI agents and applications across partner, cloud, SaaS and on-premises environments. The release says the Aembit Workload IAM Platform, which placed runner-up in the RSA Innovation Sandbox competition in 2024, provides secretless, just-in-time access that is based on the identity and posture of the workload.