Preston Wood Preston Wood is Chief Security and Strategy Officer at Databahn.ai and a former multi-time CISO and CTO in financial services. His work focuses on practical AI, shift-left analytics, and governed telemetry pipelines that help security teams get the right data at the right time and in the right context to make faster and safer decisions.
Preston Wood
The Hidden Tax on Security: How Data Costs Are Eating Your Controls Budget
A few months ago I was in a conversation with a CISO at a large financial institution that I’ve known and respected for years, and she said something that every CISO I know has felt but doesn’t get said nearly loudly enough. “Preston, I can justify every dollar I spend ... Read More
Security Boulevard
Security’s Next Control Plane: The Rise of Pipeline-First Architecture
For years, security operations have relied on monolithic architectures built around centralized collectors, rigid forwarding chains, and a single “system of record” where all data must land before action can be taken. On paper, that design promised simplicity and control. In practice, it delivered brittle systems, runaway ingest costs, and ... Read More
Security Boulevard

