Sergej Epp

Sysdig appointed Sergej Epp as CISO. He joins from Palo Alto Networks, where he served as CISO, CEMEA.

According to Sysdig, Epp will lead risk management, operations and cybersecurity strategy initiatives at the company in his role as CISO. Sysdig says the appointment was made under the direction of CEO William Welch, who had joined the company the previous month.

The company says Epp held various cybersecurity leadership roles at Deutsche Bank over a period of more than a decade. Sysdig says that at Deutsche Bank he was responsible for leading all cyberdefense centers across Europe, the Asia-Pacific and the Americas, as well as digital forensics and cyberhygiene teams. According to the company, his work at Palo Alto Networks included building threat intelligence partnerships and contributing to securing global organizations. Sysdig said that, at the time of the announcement, Epp regularly spoke at international conferences and worked as an external trainer for management boards at Fortune Global 500 firms. He has also served in advisory roles for high-tech startups, venture capital firms and government entities, among them the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, the company says.

According to the release, the company's cloud-native application protection platform, or CNAPP, is powered by open source Falco and by Sysdig Sage. Sysdig describes itself as an open source-based company and says it has made educating the industry on cloud security trends and best practices a priority. The company says it has integrated its Kraken Discovery Lab training sessions into ISC2, and that the sessions now count toward continuing professional education credits. According to Sysdig, its Threat Research Team first identified LLMjacking, the theft of LLM access, which MITRE added to its ATT&CK framework last month.