Enkrypt AI has announced the appointment of Merritt Baer as its Chief Security Officer, further strengthening its leadership team. The company stated that its mission is guided by a simple principle: AI should be safe, secure, and trusted, and Baer’s leadership will play a key role in advancing this vision.
Baer is a highly experienced security executive with an extensive career in protecting systems at scale. She spent over five years in the Office of the CISO at Amazon Web Services, where she served as Deputy CISO and contributed to securing AWS’s global infrastructure. She has also worked on security across all three branches of the United States government. Her perspectives on technology, regulation, and risk have been featured in leading industry publications.
Over the past year, Baer has been associated with Enkrypt AI as a Senior Advisor. The company highlighted her expertise, candour, and collaborative approach, noting that it is proud to now welcome her full-time into the leadership team.
Sharing her views on the appointment, Baer said, “AI is the most pressing issue in both innovation and security today. As an enterprise CISO, I’ve seen firsthand how practical concerns around governance, safety, and implementation often lag behind the rapid pace of adoption. Organizations are eager to move forward, but the frameworks and controls to do so responsibly are still taking shape. That’s why I’m joining EnkryptAI. The company is built by a team of math PhDs with an engineering- and research-first mindset, not a one-size-fits-all product approach.”
She further added that Enkrypt AI’s work bridges the gap between policy and practice by turning natural language policies into enforceable controls. “Throughout my career, whether working for the U.S. government or at AWS, I’ve focused on the landscape-level impact I can have in security. With AI, that impact spans model security, the safety of use cases, and the outcomes those systems produce. My goal at EnkryptAI is to make security systemic, something built into the infrastructure of enterprises, institutions, and the systems people rely on every day. That’s the opportunity I see at EnkryptAI: to make security an inheritance, not a luxury, and to help enterprises adopt AI responsibly, at scale.”
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