Myke Lyons

Chief Information Security Officer Cribl

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Myke Lyons is Chief Information Security Officer at Cribl, the company whose products sit between an organisation’s telemetry sources and the systems that consume them, letting IT and security teams shape, route, reduce, and retain machine data without being locked into a single destination. It is a position of some trust, since Cribl’s software touches customers’ security data in flight, and Lyons’s remit covers operational, AI, and corporate security along with the governance, risk, and compliance function that carried the company through FedRAMP authorisation. He is a career security leader who has held the CISO title at three companies and built the discipline at a fourth, and he arrived at all of it without a computer science degree: he trained as a chef, cooked professionally from his mid-teens, and fell into IT through a summer job at an advertising agency, teaching himself networking and security from online forums afterwards. He talks about that route often, and it has made him a visible advocate for non-traditional paths into the field.

Career Highlights

• Chief Information Security Officer at Cribl since May 2024, leading operational, AI, and corporate security and the governance, risk, and compliance programmes behind the company’s FedRAMP authorisation.
• Chief Information Security Officer at Snyk, the developer-first security company.
• Chief Information Security Officer at Collibra from April 2019, appointed shortly after the data governance company’s Series E round led by CapitalG, with responsibility for its information security direction and its internal infrastructure, application, and product security teams.
• Head of Security Strategy at ServiceNow, directing product and corporate development strategy for the company’s newly created security business unit.
• Director of Information Security at ServiceNow before that, leading a team of cloud security specialists.
• Began in senior security analyst and security architecture roles at Grey Group and WPP Group.
• A regular speaker and podcast guest, appearing at Black Hat USA and EDUCAUSE and on security leadership podcasts, on AI governance, SIEM and SOAR modernisation, security operations efficiency, and organisational risk tolerance.

Professional Journey

Lyons started cooking in restaurants at around fourteen, pulled in by the first wave of food television, and went to culinary school intending to be a chef. The detour came with a summer job at a large advertising agency that had just won Xerox’s printer business, where the work was unglamorous and the irony was that the office ran on HP printers. A colleague showed him printer drivers and floppy disks; his wife later taught him to copy and paste. What turned a summer job into a career was a habit from restaurant work, the service-industry instinct that everyone in the building matters and that you help whoever asks, which meant he kept saying yes to technical questions he did not yet know how to answer, and then went home and learned the answers from forums and search engines. The agency was Grey Group, part of WPP, and it is where he took his first senior security analyst and security architecture roles.

He moved from advertising into enterprise software at ServiceNow, joining as Director of Information Security and running a team of cloud security specialists. As ServiceNow stood up a dedicated security business unit, he shifted from defending the company to shaping what it sold, becoming Head of Security Strategy with responsibility for the product and corporate development strategy behind that unit. That combination, having run internal security and then built security product strategy, is what made him attractive as a CISO to companies whose own products handle sensitive data.

In April 2019 he became Chief Information Security Officer at Collibra, the data governance and catalogue company, arriving just after its CapitalG-led Series E. His remit there covered the company’s information security direction and its internal infrastructure, application, and product security teams, and his public framing of the job was explicitly about privacy as a matter of principle rather than compliance. He went on to hold the CISO role at Snyk, whose product puts security scanning directly into developer workflows, again a business where the security leader’s credibility is part of the product’s credibility.

He joined Cribl as CISO in May 2024, after what he described as a year-long relationship with the team before taking the job. His stated reason for joining was the underlying market problem rather than the company alone: telemetry data is growing at a compound rate that outpaces both budgets and headcount, which forces organisations into bad choices about what to keep and what to see, and Cribl’s products exist to break that constraint without locking customers into one vendor’s destination. At Cribl he has responsibility for operational, AI, and corporate security, for governance, risk, and compliance, and he led the company through FedRAMP authorisation, the accreditation required to sell into US federal agencies. He has been consistent that security is not the security team’s job alone but a practice to be built across the whole company, and he remains a frequent presence on stage and on podcasts, including Cribl’s 2026 Black Hat USA programme.

Education

No post-secondary institution, degree, or field of study could be established for Myke Lyons in any source consulted. He attended culinary school before entering technology, but no source names the school, and his security and networking knowledge is self-taught.