Alan LeFort

Alan Lefort is a cybersecurity leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling security products used by Fortune 500 companies. He previously led product and business units at Proofpoint, McAfee, and Intel Security, where he focused on advanced threat protection, insider risk, and behavioral analytics. At Intel, he helped drive product strategy across global markets, leading teams in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. Now as CEO of StrongestLayer, Alan is leveraging that deep enterprise experience to stop AI-powered phishing attacks before they reach users—redefining email security for the AI era.

Email Security Needs Its Periodic Table Moment

Alan LeFort | June 5, 2026 | business email compromise, Cybersecurity, email security, security operations, threat detection

In January 2026, a mid-market financial services firm caught an active email attack operation at the credential-capture stage, before any payment was touched. Their legacy secure email gateway, running in parallel, generated no alert at all. The difference was not a better product. It was a different question. One system ... Read More

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data, hack, application cyberwarfare firewall

The Arms Race is Already Over. You Just Don’t Know Which Side Won.

Alan LeFort | April 1, 2026 | AI-Driven Exploitation, Anthropic Claude 4.6, behavioral detection, Cybersecurity Economics, identity-based attacks, Open Source Security, prompt injection, , Synthetic Actors, Trust Layer Security, Vulnerability Remediation Gap., zero-day vulnerabilities

Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 found 500+ zero-days, but the real story is economic. As AI secures code, attackers are shifting to the "Trust Layer"—AI-driven social engineering and identity deception ... Read More

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remote, ZTNA, security, zero-trust architecture, organization, zero-trust, trust supply chain third-party

The Zero-Trust Paradox: Why Email Whitelists are Undoing Millions in Security Investment

Alan LeFort | March 6, 2026 | Access control, business email compromise, email security, identity security, zero trust

Zero-trust collapses when email whitelists create permanent exceptions. Here's why this hidden risk undermines modern security investments ... Read More

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incident, Cohesive, response, Orca Security attacks incident response security MDR Incident Response Plan

AI Agents are Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Alan LeFort | December 19, 2025 | AI agent data retention risks, AI agents man-in-the-middle, AI agents security risks, AI audit trails and transparency, , AI model governance, AI security architecture, AI security explainability, AI supply chain risk, AI threat detection architecture, black box AI security, CISO AI security concerns, explainable AI security, LLM security architecture, reasoning-based AI security, zero trust AI systems

After 25 years defending against man-in-the-middle attacks, a security veteran explains why most AI agents replicate the same architectural risks—creating compliance gaps, opaque decision-making, and zero-trust violations CISOs can’t ignore ... Read More

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Security Training Just Became Your Biggest Security Risk

Traditional security awareness training is now undermining enterprise security and productivity. As AI-generated phishing eliminates familiar “red flags,” organizations must move beyond vigilance culture toward AI-assisted trust calibration—combining cognitive science and machine intelligence to rebuild trust, reduce false positives, and enhance real security outcomes ... Read More

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On