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From Chef to CISO: Unlocking the Recipe to Security Leadership

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The New CISO Podcast with guest Myke Lyons

  • Apr 07, 2026
  • 1 minute to read

Episode 143

What does sharpening a knife over a case of onions have to do with incident response? For Myke Lyons, CISO at Cribl, the answer is everything. Myke trained at the Culinary Institute of America — learning speed and accuracy under the clock of a professional kitchen — before a summer IT job in Manhattan set him on an entirely different path. In this episode of The New CISO, host Steve Moore traces that journey and the surprising parallels between culinary craft and security leadership.

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Myke Lyons

Myke Lyons is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Cribl, leading the charge in operational, AI, and corporate security. He oversees governance, risk, and compliance programs, and has been instrumental in guiding Cribl through its FedRAMP journey. With a distinguished career spanning over two decades, Myke has previously held CISO roles at Snyk and Collibra, where he championed security governance and advocated for data and AI products. Prior to that, he spearheaded the security team at ServiceNow.

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