Leadership · CISO
Vitaly Gudanets
Ran security at Netflix and spent more than a decade at Google before becoming Anthropic's chief information security officer.
- Role
- CISO
- Joined Anthropic
- 2025
- Before Anthropic
- Netflix
Career
- Anthropic
- CISOSep 2025 – present
- Netflix
- CISONov 2021 – Jun 2025
- Google
- VP, Security EngineeringDec 2016 – Nov 2021
- Sr. Director, Data CentersApr 2009 – Dec 2016
- Rainmaker Systems
- CISO/CIO2007–2009
- SanDisk
- Sr. Director, Global Infrastructure and Security Services2005–2007
- VERITAS Software
- Director, Global Infrastructure Services1999–2005
- Director, Enterprise Architecture1999–2005
- Director, Global Network Services1999–2005
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Lesser-known facts
- Joined Google in 2009 as senior director of data centers, overseeing the software that runs its facilities.
- Spent two years as chief information officer at software firm Rainmaker Systems before Google.
- Took over from Jason Clinton, who stayed on as his deputy CISO.
- Says "most GRC programs today are very little G, very little R, and a very big C."
- Warns that nation-state actors are actively targeting AI companies to steal model weights.
