Summary
Matt Franz is a cloud AI security leader with two decades of experience building, running, and securing cloud platforms across startups and enterprises. He is currently Cloud AI Security Lead at Bespin Global US, shaping products at the intersection of Cloud, SecOps, and AI. His career spans leadership roles at Ping Identity, CrowdStrike, COFENSE, T. Rowe Price, Thales, and ZeniMax, where he directed global security operations, incident response, and the modernization of security tooling across AWS, GovCloud, and multi-cloud environments. He has hands-on experience delivering data services on EKS for MDR and IR teams, automating SecOps tasks with Python, and leading CNAPP, CSPM, and XDR initiatives. A former US Army Intelligence Analyst and an ongoing advisor to Alyssum Global Services, he brings a disciplined, security-first mindset to large-scale cloud AI programs. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he blends technical depth with strategic leadership to accelerate secure, scalable cloud-native solutions.
10 years of coding experience