# Vitaly Gudanets

Leadership · CISO at Anthropic · joined 2025

Ran security at Netflix and spent more than a decade at Google before becoming Anthropic's chief information security officer.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/vitaly-gudanets

**At Anthropic:**
- Sep 2025 – present: CISO
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitaly-gudanets-877377)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Nov 2021 – Jun 2025: Netflix, CISO
- Dec 2016 – Nov 2021: Google, VP, Security Engineering
- Apr 2009 – Dec 2016: Google, Sr. Director, Data Centers
- 2007–2009: Rainmaker Systems, CISO/CIO
- 2005–2007: SanDisk, Sr. Director, Global Infrastructure and Security Services
- 1999–2005: VERITAS Software, Director, Global Infrastructure Services
- 1999–2005: VERITAS Software, Director, Enterprise Architecture
- 1999–2005: VERITAS Software, Director, Global Network Services
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitaly-gudanets-877377)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Joined Google in 2009 as senior director of data centers, overseeing the software that runs its facilities. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/20-google-execs-leading-cybersecurity-2021-5)
- Spent two years as chief information officer at software firm Rainmaker Systems before Google. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/20-google-execs-leading-cybersecurity-2021-5)
- Took over from Jason Clinton, who stayed on as his deputy CISO. [1](https://www.thestack.technology/anthropic-new-ciso-claude-cyber-attack/)
- Says "most GRC programs today are very little G, very little R, and a very big C." [1](https://drata.com/blog/drataverse-2025-future-of-grc-vitaly-gudanets)
- Warns that nation-state actors are actively targeting AI companies to steal model weights. [1](https://guruchahal.substack.com/p/defenders-are-behind-anthropics-ciso)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Cyber 60 podcast: How Anthropic uses Claude for security (2025)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-anthropic-uses-claude-for-security-ciso-vitaly/id1847688770?i=1000740608588)
- [Cyber Confidential conversation with Joe Sullivan and Chenxi Wang on AI and security (2025)](https://rss.com/podcasts/cyber-confidential/2077576/)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people