As AI becomes foundational infrastructure for governments and enterprises, trust is becoming just as important as capability. Organizations aren't simply evaluating model performance, they're asking whether the systems they deploy can be trusted with their most sensitive data, critical operations, and strategic assets.
Today, we're excited to welcome Jaya Baloo, co-founder of AISLE and one of the world's foremost cybersecurity leaders, to Cohere as our first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In this role, Jaya will help advance our mission to build the world's most trusted Sovereign AI platform.
Security is the defining challenge of enterprise AI
Organizations around the world are moving AI from pilots into production. As they do, security, governance, and compliance are becoming central requirements for deployment.
The challenge is especially acute for governments, critical infrastructure operators, and highly regulated enterprises. These organizations need AI that can operate within their own environments, meet strict security requirements, and remain under their control.
At Cohere, we've long believed that successful AI deployment requires more than powerful models. It requires a complete platform that combines frontier AI capabilities with enterprise-grade infrastructure, governance, security, and deployment flexibility. That's why we're investing deeply in the people and technologies that help organizations deploy AI with confidence. Bringing Jaya to Cohere is an important step in that journey.
A global leader in cybersecurity
Over the course of her career, Jaya has established herself as one of the most respected voices in cybersecurity. She brings more than two decades of experience protecting critical systems and advising organizations operating in some of the world's most demanding security environments.
She has held senior leadership roles at some of the world's leading technology and telecommunications organizations. Before co-founding AISLE, she served as CISO at Rapid7, Avast, and KPN Telecom. She has also advised organizations including the World Economic Forum and Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3).
Her work spans cyber resilience, critical infrastructure security, vulnerability management, and quantum readiness, fields that are becoming increasingly important as agentic AI systems grow more capable and more deeply integrated into essential services.
Why AISLE
Jaya joins Cohere from AISLE, the AI-native cybersecurity company she co-founded alongside Ondrej Vlcek and Stanislav Fort. AISLE was created to address one of cybersecurity's most persistent challenges: organizations can identify vulnerabilities, but often struggle to remediate them at the speed required to stay ahead of attackers.
To solve this problem, AISLE developed autonomous AI systems capable of discovering, validating, and helping remediate previously unknown vulnerabilities in production software. In its first year out of stealth, the company identified more than 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities across more than 100 codebases, demonstrating the growing potential of AI-native approaches to cybersecurity.
That work reflects a broader shift taking place across both AI and cybersecurity. As systems become more complex, organizations need intelligent technologies that can help them operate securely at scale.
Building a More Trusted AI Platform
At Cohere, our mission is to help organizations deploy AI on their own terms. That means giving customers the flexibility to run AI wherever their data lives while maintaining the security, governance, and control their operations demand. Jaya's appointment reinforces our commitment to that vision.
"Organizations are entering a new era where AI and cybersecurity are becoming increasingly interconnected," said Jaya Baloo. "As AI becomes part of critical infrastructure, security and trust need to be built in from the start, not added later. I'm excited to join Cohere and help advance a future where organizations can confidently deploy AI while maintaining the control, resilience, and security they require."
As CISO, she will help shape Cohere's security strategy as we continue building a platform that combines frontier AI models, agentic applications, secure deployment infrastructure, and advanced cybersecurity capabilities. Her experience at the forefront of cybersecurity will help ensure trust remains at the core of everything we build.
We're thrilled to welcome Jaya to Cohere and look forward to building the future of trusted, sovereign AI together.
