Frontier Cyber Lead

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Applied Innovation's Next Frontier focuses on emerging technologies, including Physical AI, Quantum Computing, and Frontier AI, amongst others such as Cyber Frontier. This initiative translates advanced capabilities into measurable outcomes, helping clients and EY teams unlock new opportunities through technology-driven capabilities.

EY needs to further advance innovation in Cyber AI by developing new capabilities in this domain, particularly at the frontier. The focus is on practical Cyber Agentic capabilities and frameworks that deliver measurable, enterprise-value level benefits. Some of the areas include Cyber world models, Agentic AI red teaming tooling and frameworks, and strategic plans for modernizing infosec capabilities for the AI age.

The core Cyber teams today are driving capability in the center, with tools from Microsoft, Zscaler, and others. At the frontier are new tools being built by startups and with open weight models that our clients would find essential. This team will focus on the frontier.

Next Frontier’s Cyber team is an emerging tech team in Frontier, under the direct leadership of Dr. Rodrigo Madanes, EY Global Innovation Next Frontier Leader.

The Next Frontier Cyber Lead will work on initiatives to drive EY’s capability in frontier cyber, which is mostly aligned with advances of frontier AI models. This role requires background, knowledge, and practical experience with both Cyber as well as with Agentic AI. This is an exciting time in the field and we’re aware not many people have expertise in both.

Curiosity will be key and fast learning too.

• Provide technical and strategic leadership for the development and adoption of Cyber Agentic frontier defense capabilities, tools, and assessments across the enterprise. This stream focuses on Next/Beyond not now which is already covered in EY’s core Cyber capabilities.
• Develop and drive Cyber Agentic frontier programs, assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Shape and support go-to-market (GTM) strategy for Cyber by working with Cyber teams and also with Global Markets, sector teams, and alliance partners.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and clients, articulating risks, architectures, and opportunities in Cyber agentic frontier safety.
• Advise senior technical and business leaders on AI model sandboxes, model misbehavior, zero day vulnerability brute force discovery, defensive agentic sentries, proprietary vs open weight models capabilities and their impact on enterprise systems.
• Produce executive-ready documentation, architecture standards, and thought leadership.

Partner with sector leaders and client-serving teams to shape solution approaches and drive adoption of Cyber-safe architectures.

• Manage delivery of complex Cyber safety transformations, coordinating engineering, architecture, and research teams.
• Lead a technical team of cyber developers, establishing engineering best practices, documentation standards, and architectural governance.
• Oversee cyber frontier-risk assessment lifecycle, including threat modeling.

• Lead design and implementation of cyber frontier strategy and architecture.
• Architect cyber agentic-resistant networks, including network sentries, and red teaming of networks.
• Provide technical leadership for cyber defense initiatives attack modeling, countermeasure evaluation, and resilience testing.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate cyber…