The Agentic CISO

Security judgment, not just security checklists.

Every company needs a CISO. Fewer than 3% can afford one. Aegis deploys AI agents that carry two decades of CISO judgment to assess your risk, prove your compliance, and tell you what to fix first.

Built on the methodology of the former CISO of the City of San José

Assessed againstNIST CSF 2.0SOC 2HIPAACMMC L2NIST AI RMF
Seeing is believing

A checklist ranks by severity. A CISO ranks by consequence.

Watch the same raw scan get re-sequenced live. Aegis weighs regulatory exposure, real exploitability, and effort — so a publicly exposed patient database and a one-click quick win rise, and a cosmetic gap sinks. This is the judgment layer, made visible.

Run it yourself in the demo
Aegis · live assessment
Raw severity order
1CriticalRoot & admin accounts without MFA
2HighEHR database publicly accessible
3HighPatient files shared publicly in Drive
4LowPassword policy below NIST guidance

Built on judgment earned in the field

CISO · City of San JoséHPEDXCGlobal CISO · Sapien9

In active design-partner conversations with regional healthcare and public-sector organizations. The demo below runs on an anonymized, fictional client.

The expertise gap is now the security gap.

A seasoned CISO turns thousands of signals into a handful of decisions that actually matter. Most mid-market companies, healthcare providers, and government agencies will never hire one. So they buy tools that generate alerts nobody can prioritize and checklists nobody can defend to a board.

3%of organizations can afford a full-time CISO
$172BAI cybersecurity market by 2029 (Gartner)
277 daysto identify and contain a breach (IBM)

How Aegis works

01

Connect, read-only

Aegis integrates with your cloud, identity, and compliance stack through secure read-only access. Nothing is changed, nothing is exposed. Initial connection in hours, full scope review within days.

02

Agents assess with judgment

Autonomous agents evaluate your posture the way a veteran CISO would, weighing each finding against real business impact, threat likelihood, and regulatory exposure.

03

Get a board-ready plan

Aegis returns a prioritized action plan and an executive narrative your leadership can act on and your auditors can trust, not a raw list of alerts.

Platform

One platform, the judgment of a CISO.

Continuous risk assessment

Agents monitor your environment around the clock, re-scoring risk as your infrastructure, threats, and regulations change, so your posture is never a stale snapshot.

Compliance with automatic evidence

Map controls to SOC 2, HIPAA, and CMMC and collect audit evidence continuously. Walk into every assessment with a defensible record already assembled.

AI risk governance

Govern the AI your organization builds and buys against the NIST AI RMF, so you adopt AI without inheriting risk you can’t see or explain.

Business-impact prioritization

Every finding is ranked by what it means to your operations, revenue, and mission, not by generic severity scores, so you fix what actually matters first.

Board-ready reporting

Translate technical posture into the language executives and directors need, with clear risk narratives, trend lines, and decisions ready for the next board meeting.

Read-only and secure by design

Aegis operates through least-privilege, read-only access with a full audit trail. It advises and reports, and never touches production or holds the keys.

Checklists don't run security. Judgment does.

Legacy compliance tools

  • Pass-the-checkbox theater that satisfies an auditor but leaves real risk untouched
  • Thousands of undifferentiated alerts and dashboards that bury the findings that matter
  • No business context, so a critical exposure and a cosmetic gap look identical

Aegis, the Agentic CISO

  • Encodes how a veteran CISO actually reasons about risk, tradeoffs, and priorities
  • Distills the noise into the few decisions that reduce the most risk right now
  • Weighs every finding against your business impact, threat model, and obligations
Why now

An open category, forming right now.

Investors poured over $392M into agentic AI security in the two weeks around RSA 2026, and Gartner's AI TRiSM category has no clear incumbent in mid-market or government. Aegis owns the underserved segment that big-enterprise platforms were never built to reach.

$392M
raised in agentic AI security around RSA 2026
73.9%
CAGR of AI cybersecurity to 2029 (Gartner)
No incumbent
in AI TRiSM for mid-market & government
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Dr. Marcelo Peredo
Founder & CEO, Sapien9
CISO, City of San JoséHPE / DXCAI Risk Governance

Built by an operator who ran security for a Silicon Valley city

Aegis is founded by Dr. Marcelo Peredo, who served as Chief Information Security Officer for the City of San José from 2018 to 2024, defending critical services for a million residents in the heart of Silicon Valley. He previously held security leadership roles at HPE and DXC and is a recognized authority on AI risk governance. In security, credibility can’t be faked, and Aegis is judgment earned in the field, encoded into software.

Get the CISO your organization could never hire.

See how Aegis assesses your risk, proves your compliance, and hands your board a plan it can act on. A focused walkthrough with our team, tailored to your environment.