From First Principles

We’re here to rebuild security from the ground up — not with hype, but with judgment, clarity, and lived experience. Cloud Native CISO is rooted in first principles: protect what matters, understand your system, and design security that earns trust instead of slowing you down.

Built for the Overlooked

Most startups don’t fail security because they’re careless — they fail because security was never built for them. Vendors aim too high. Guidance is too vague. And advice? Usually written for companies ten times their size. Cloud Native CISO started with a simple question: What if security was actually built for the rest of us?

What Makes Us Different

Security as Leverage

Done right, security doesn’t drag — it accelerates. It helps you earn trust, protect velocity, and bake resilience into every deploy. It’s not overhead. It’s a multiplier.

Built for Builders

We’re not chasing auditor checklists. We’re helping the people shipping real systems under real pressure — founders, staff engineers, and security-minded generalists making smart calls with limited time.

Context Before Controls

Security without context is cargo cult. We start with your architecture, your risks, your goals. When you understand the system, the right answers emerge — and the noise disappears.

Who’s Behind Cloud Native CISO?

I’ve spent my career helping teams protect what matters — in cloud-native startups, high-scale systems, and early-stage chaos. Cloud Native CISO is my way of giving back: a solo project rooted in real work, written in public, shaped by conversations, and driven by curiosity.

“I wanted the kind of resource I wish I had at my first startup — something clear, practical, and rooted in experience instead of theory.”