GitLab Inc. has appointed Chaim Mazal as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead its global security organization and define security standards for AI-driven software development. Mazal will oversee the security of GitLab as a company and as a platform, ensuring the delivery of security rigor required by AI agents. His appointment addresses the emerging risks associated with AI-driven threats and the need for robust security in engineering workflows.

Mazal brings 15 years of security leadership experience, spanning adversarial security and enterprise security program design. His approach focuses on designing defenses around how attacks are constructed and embedding security directly into engineering workflows. Before joining GitLab, he served as Chief AI and Security Officer at Gigamon, where he led security and the company's AI program, overseeing governance and responsible adoption. He also held senior security leadership roles at Kandji and ActiveCampaign.

Strategic Leadership and Customer Insight

Mazal is an established voice in the security community, serving on the advisory boards of Cloudflare, Rapid7, Axonius, and Bugcrowd. He was a GitLab customer for more than eight years and previously joined the company's advisory board to help shape product direction. This deep familiarity with the platform is expected to inform his strategy as CISO.

Executive Perspectives

Bill Staples, CEO at GitLab, emphasized the importance of the appointment in the context of rapid agent development. "The faster agents move, the more critical it becomes that developers find and fix security vulnerabilities before code hits production," Staples said. "Having spent years as a GitLab customer, Chaim understands the GitLab platform the way builders do. That practitioner instinct, combined with his security leadership depth, is exactly what we need to make GitLab the most trusted platform in the agentic era."

Chaim Mazal, CISO at GitLab, highlighted the evolving landscape of software security. "Frontier models are rewriting what's possible in software security. AI-driven attacks are compressing exploitation timelines, while agents expose teams to risks they aren't equipped to govern yet," Mazal said. "We have a real opportunity to define what a world-class AI security program looks like for us and our customers."

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security and compliance risk. The platform is trusted by more than 50 million registered users and approximately 50% of the Fortune 100.