Your judgment, in the workflow.
Review proposed detections and containment actions before they run. Define which other actions policy can authorize.
The cybersecurity operating system
Close the gap
between knowing
and acting.
Your tools see the signals. Corticle connects the context, carries the work forward, and keeps your people in command.
Your existing tools.
One connected security program.
OPERATIONS
IDENTITY
RISK & COMPLIANCE
GOVERNANCE
Different jobs. The same layer.
01 / The missing connection
The hardest part of security shouldn’t be the handoff.
The context is there.
It’s just everywhere.
The SOC has the alert. Compliance needs the evidence. Leadership wants to know what changed. Too often, your people have to connect it all by hand.
Corticle carries that context across the program, over the tools you already own, so the next team starts with what the last team already knows.
02 / Over the stack you already own
Keep what works. Replace nothing.
Corticle is the operating layer on top of the tools you already run. Where the stack covers a job, Corticle works over that tool. Where you have a gap, it fills the capability. The data stays where it lives.
agents — one for each job on the program
CISO · SOC Analyst · Detection Engineer · Incident Responder · Blue Team · Red Team · IAM Manager · Risk Analyst · Assessment Lead · GRC Officer · Compliance Officer · TPRM Manager · Training Manager · Security Architect · CTI Analyst · Platform Admin
corticle — the operating layer
- SecOps
- Identity
- Risk
- Compliance
- Awareness
- Governance
queried in place — no data movement, no new data lake
your existing stack — the tools stay where they are
SIEM · EDR · Vuln Mgmt · ITSM · IAM · Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP) · GRC · Threat Intel · Training · Email Sec · WAF · SBOM · CMDB · NDR
deploys on-prem · in your cloud · air-gapped. See workflows for a few of these jobs → · The platform in depth →
03 / Built around your authority
Agents carry the work.
You set the boundaries.
Specialized agents work across your security program, guided by your policies and the context of your environment.
Explore our trust approachA record of the why.
Trace decisions back to their evidence, approvals, and outcomes through an append-only, hash-chained audit log.
Your environment stays yours.
Work with your existing tools and data, with deployment options for your cloud, on premises, and air-gapped environments.
What changes
The program, before and after.
From weeks to minutes.
triage · attestations · assessments
From quarterly to continuous.
audit · risk · vendor · posture
From scattered to one screen.
every domain · every role · one program
From months of integration to days.
patent-pending auto-integration
Engineered against — SOC 2 · HIPAA · CMMC · FedRAMP · NIST CSF · PCI DSS · ISO 27001 · CJIS · IRAP · StateRAMP. Our own certifications are in progress. Trust posture →
04 / Why we built Corticle
We’ve been on
your side of the screen.
Jesse had described a future for cybersecurity on a conference stage. Years later, after their time at Amtrak, Mac came back to that idea with a question:
“Do you want to build it now?”
That conversation became Corticle. Together with Alex, they’re building from experience in operations, engineering, and governance — connecting the work they once had to hold together by hand.
From Jesse’s account of Corticle’s beginnings
LEADERSHIP
Jesse Whaley
inCEO & co-founder
Former Amtrak CISO and Pentagon cybersecurity operations leader. 2024 Capital ORBIE CISO of the Year. U.S. Army veteran.
ENGINEERING
Matt “Mac” McKechnie
inCTO & co-founder
Former Amtrak security technology leader. Eight years at NSA Tailored Access Operations. U.S. Marine veteran.
GOVERNANCE
Alexander Zaft
BioCISO & co-founder
Security governance and risk leadership at Amtrak and Thermo Fisher Scientific. U.S. Navy veteran.
REVENUE
Stephany Mackay
BioChief Revenue Officer
Led Government Solutions for DataBee and BluVector at Comcast. Twenty-five years taking security technology to market across DoD and the Fortune 500.
Let’s connect the picture.
Bring your hardest handoff.
We’ll walk through how Corticle connects the people, context, and decisions on either side.