Jane Edwards 
- GreyNoise has brought on Mark Mager to lead adversary engagement
- Mager is among four senior leaders joining the cybersecurity company
- His background includes roles at Elastic, Battelle and Lockheed Martin
Mark Mager, who previously oversaw endpoint security research at Elastic, has joined GreyNoise Intelligence as head of adversary engagement.
The cybersecurity company announced Wednesday that Mager is one of four senior executives it has hired to advance its work with government agencies in the U.S. and allied countries.
GreyNoise CEO Ash Devata said artificial intelligence-enabled adversaries can compromise routers, virtual private networks and other internet-facing systems within minutes of a flaw surfacing, and most of these devices fall outside the reach of traditional detection and response tools.
Devata added that Mager and the three other new leaders have experience applying real-time threat intelligence to protect edge systems and that their arrival will advance GreyNoise’s national security work for the U.S. and allied countries.
Who Is Mark Mager?
Mager is a cybersecurity researcher with experience in endpoint security, computer network operations and reverse engineering.
At Elastic and Endgame, he headed teams focused on endpoint security research and helped lay the groundwork for the companies’ endpoint detection and response capabilities.
Mager previously directed research and development work on advanced computer network operations systems at Battelle and Lockheed Martin. He also worked as a reverse engineering specialist for clients across the Washington, D.C., area.
What Is GreyNoise?
GreyNoise is a cybersecurity company that delivers intelligence on internet-wide attack activity aimed at edge systems, helping security teams determine which threats need attention first. More than 400 government agencies across the Five Eyes, NATO and other allied nations rely on its data to detect and investigate attacks on edge infrastructure.
The company has expanded its federal presence this year. In April, GreyNoise introduced a command-and-control detection capability to give federal agencies earlier warning of compromised assets, a month after bringing on Mike Habte as director of federal sales.
In an Executive Spotlight interview, Nishawn Smagh, GreyNoise’s director of intelligence, said AI is increasing the pace of both offensive and defensive cyber operations, leaving defenders less time between the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities. He previously cautioned that AI-based detection models may fall short against new threats since they are trained on attacker activity only after it has been verified.
