Kevin Paige
Field CISO, C1
Kevin Paige is the Field CISO at C1, where he advises organizations on modern identity security, cybersecurity strategy, and aligning security programs with business outcomes. With more than 30 years of technology and security leadership across the private and public sectors, Kevin has served as CISO at Flexport and MuleSoft, helping lead MuleSoft through its acquisition by Salesforce. He is also an investor at Silicon Valley CISO Investments and a venture advisor at Glilot Capital Partners.
LinkedIn15 articles by Kevin Paige
BlogYour Engineers Are Building the Same Agent Twelve Times. Here's How to Stop It.
C1's Field CISO on the producer/consumer flywheel — the six asset classes that flow through an internal agent marketplace, why reuse is a good outcome but a bad goal, the deprecation ritual that keeps the marketplace credible, and what federation actually means.
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The Most Important AI Meeting You'll Have This Quarter Costs Nothing
C1's Field CISO on the ADAPT phase — the one honest executive meeting that starts an agentic AI program, the failure graveyard worth naming out loud, the permanent tension between control and reuse, and the four written outputs including kill criteria for the program itself.
BlogMost Enterprises Think They're on Rung 3. They're on Rung 1.
C1's Field CISO on the five-rung agentic AI maturity ladder — shadow AI, tracked AI, governed AI, federated reuse, and compounding — plus the four diagnostic questions that tell you which rung you are actually on.
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Seven Ways Enterprise AI Programs Die
C1's Field CISO on the seven failure patterns that kill enterprise AI programs — shadow tool sprawl, SSO mistaken for authorization, shared service accounts, policy nobody reads, and the review board reborn as an AI Council — and how to convert a gating function into an enabling one.
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The Agentic Migration Is Already Happening. The Question Is Whether You're Running It.
C1's Field CISO on running the agentic migration instead of being run by it — a three-phase methodology (Adapt, Compose, Evolve) built on the people you already have, where security is the enabler of speed rather than the brake on it.
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Four Things Your Identity Stack Needs Before Agents Hit Production
Four primitives your identity stack needs to govern AI agents in production: an identity-aware proxy, credential vaulting, scope minimization, and first-class revocation.
BlogThe Identity Stack Was Built for Humans. Agents Don't Care.
Agents don't click — they call, they chain, they spawn other agents. Kevin Paige on why the human-shaped identity stack breaks across lifecycle, scope, attribution, and revocation, and why the next era is about agency, not identity.
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Security Needs a Second Floor
Part 2 of 2. The CIA triad protects data. It was never designed to govern the actors touching it. Why Identity, Trust, and Governance form a control plane above CIA -- the second floor of modern security.
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The CIA Triad Was Built for a World That No Longer Exists
The CIA triad assumed someone was guarding the door. In 2026, there is no door. Here's why identity needs to become a foundational security pillar, not an afterthought.
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A CISO's Top 3 Takeaways from RSA Conference 2026
C1 Field CISO Kevin Paige breaks down the three defining security shifts from RSA Conference 2026: the agent governance crisis, 22-second attack windows that broke human-in-the-loop defense, and the rise of MCP as the protocol controlling every AI agent in your enterprise.
BlogAccess Management Needs a Conductor, Not More Instruments
Kevin Paige argues that enterprise identity's real problem isn't the tools -- it's the lack of orchestration. With AI agents multiplying and identity sprawl accelerating, access management needs a conductor, not more instruments.
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Your Enterprise Needs an Immune System, Not a Better Firewall
Kevin Paige explores why identity and access management must evolve into a distributed “enterprise immune system” to govern AI agents, non-human identities, and continuous risk.
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Identity Becomes the Battlefield: 3 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026
Identity becomes the top cybersecurity risk in 2026. Explore three predictions on identity security, agentic AI, and IAM consolidation.
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Moving Beyond Least Privilege
Least privilege has long been security’s holy grail—but in today’s world of app sprawl, AI agents, and constant change, it’s broken. Learn why zero standing access is the future, with just-in-time provisioning, step-up approvals, and full auditability.
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Identity Governance vs. SaaS Management Solutions
Many teams confuse SaaS management tools with identity governance platforms, but they solve entirely different problems. Learn why SMPs can’t secure your business and what it really takes to manage access risk.