Tom Bouathong is a Senior Product Manager and former CISO with 18 years leading cloud security, incident response, and enterprise risk programs. A pragmatic, outcomes-driven leader, he bridges board priorities with SOC reality—reducing noise, sharpening MTTD/MTTR, and simplifying operating models. Tom has selected and run complex vendor stacks and built effective security programs across multiple industries, giving him a deep buyer’s perspective. Today he steers product strategy with that lens, prioritizing secure-by-default controls, clean integrations, and measurable risk reduction. He focuses on making security tools easy to adopt, interoperable, and accountable to outcomes teams care about: faster detection, faster recovery, and fewer false positives. Tom partners with executives to translate risk into practical roadmaps and with practitioners to remove friction in day-to-day operations.