Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

David Melamed is Head of Emerging Technologies at Torq. He joined through Torq’s acquisition of Jit, which he co-founded and has led as CTO since 2020, building agentic security on a production Context Graph. A cloud security veteran with 20+ years of experience, David previously held senior technical roles at Cisco (via the CloudLock acquisition) and MyHeritage. For all the gods and monsters in The Odyssey, the ship mostly moves for one reason: men row it.

Every vendor in this category now says the same word: agentic. I understand why. It’s what the market wants to hear. But when you’re the one signing the contract, “agentic” tells you almost nothing. I’ve sat on the buying side of enough of these conversations to know that the label and the capability are often two very different things.

John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations. Prior to Virgin Atlantic, he built and transformed security functions for global organizations, including ASOS, Liberty Global, AEG Europe, and KPMG.

DevOps moves fast by design. Continuous integration, automated deployments, and infrastructure-as-code let development teams ship features in hours rather than weeks. Security teams have a real opportunity here: when they build workflows that integrate directly into the development process, they gain coverage and response speed that manual, disconnected approaches leave on the table.

Security teams have always had to justify their budgets, and the bar for that justification keeps rising. Boards and CFOs want proof that security spending delivers measurable business value: reduced risk translated into financial language. That pressure has made cybersecurity ROI calculators a standard part of the security leader’s toolkit, a way to convert threat prevention, automation efficiency, and incident response improvements into the numbers executives understand.

Yaniv Zimmer is an AI researcher at Torq, focusing on cybersecurity research at the crossroads of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and defensive operations. Drawing on extensive experience within Unit 8200 alongside industry and academic AI research roles, his work centers on advancing SOC AI architectures and threat detection capabilities Like a lot of people, we were excited when Jev launched. The premise is genuinely useful in production: an intelligent language model built for classification.