Mazal joins to define what AI security looks like for the next generation of software development
GitLab Inc., the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, announced that Chaim Mazal has joined as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Mazal leads GitLab’s global security organization, overseeing the security of GitLab as a company and as a platform. His expertise in AI and security operations will help ensure GitLab delivers the security rigor that AI agents require, including addressing emerging, AI-driven threats.
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Mazal has 15 years of security leadership experience, with a practitioner’s background that spans adversarial security and enterprise security program design. His approach to security prioritizes designing defenses around how attacks are actually constructed and embedding security directly into engineering workflows. Mazal most recently served as Chief AI and Security Officer at Gigamon, where he led security and the company’s AI program, overseeing governance and responsible adoption across the organization. He also previously held senior security leadership roles at Kandji and ActiveCampaign, among others.
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 joined the company’s advisory board to help shape product direction before taking the CISO role.
Supporting Quotes
- “The faster agents move, the more critical it becomes that developers find and fix security vulnerabilities before code hits production. It’s a defining issue in software engineering right now, and something GitLab solves with Ultimate and GitLab Duo Agent Platform,” said Bill Staples, CEO at GitLab. “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.”
- “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,” said Chaim Mazal, CISO at GitLab. “We have a real opportunity to define what a world-class AI security program looks like for us and our customers.”
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