Jaya Baloo Joins Cohere as First CISO
According to Cohere Blog: Cohere appoints Jaya Baloo as its first Chief Information Security Officer. Baloo, co-founder of AISLE and former CISO at Rapid7 and Avast, will help the company build a trusted sovereign AI platform as enterprise security demands increase.

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According to Cohere Blog:
Cohere announces the appointment of Jaya Baloo as its first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Baloo brings over two decades of cybersecurity experience, having previously served as CISO at Rapid7, Avast, and KPN Telecom, and as co-founder of AI-native cybersecurity startup AISLE.
As enterprise adoption shifts from pilot projects to production, organizations—particularly governments and critical infrastructure operators—are demanding higher standards of security, governance, and control. Cohere states that Baloo's expertise in critical infrastructure security and quantum readiness will guide the company's strategy in delivering secure deployment infrastructure and frontier AI models.
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