Kevin Kiley, Chief Executive Officer of Airia, has been named a winner of the 2026 Security Innovator Award by Security Business magazine. This prestigious recognition honors individuals who have made innovative contributions to the security industry and reflects Kevin’s leadership in addressing one of the most pressing challenges in enterprise technology today: the security and governance of AI agents.
About the Security Innovator Award
The Security Innovator Award is the security industry’s only 100% peer-nominated program recognizing innovative contributions from professionals across the entire security ecosystem. From integrators and consultants to end-user practitioners and manufacturers, this award recognizes excellence and innovation among colleagues and partners.
Kevin Kiley’s Vision for Enterprise AI Security
When AI adoption began sweeping through enterprise organizations, most business leaders were asking one question: How fast can we deploy this? Kevin Kiley was asking something different: How can we control what these AI agents do and what information they access? That instinct to look past the excitement and into the risk is what defines Kevin Kiley as a security innovator. While the industry raced to adopt AI without solving the critical gap around visibility and control, Kevin recognized the real enterprise risk and set out to address it.
“Security asks if someone can break in,” Kevin has noted. “Governance asks if we can stand behind what AI agents do, both today and six months from now.”
A Track Record of Category Defining Success
Kevin’s path to this recognition is grounded in a rare pattern of success in building and scaling enterprise technology companies. As part of the early executive leadership team at AirWatch, he helped scale the company from $2 million to $350 million in revenue, culminating in a landmark $1.54 billion acquisition by VMware.
He then joined OneTrust as Chief Revenue Officer, where he was instrumental in driving the company from zero to more than $400 million in ARR and 14,000 global customers in just five years. This hypergrowth story established OneTrust as the defining platform in data privacy and trust.
Most recently, as CRO of Lacework, Kevin led a successful strategic turnaround that resulted in the company’s acquisition by Fortinet. Each chapter reflects the same core skill: identifying where enterprise risk is headed before the market catches up.
How Airia Is Transforming Enterprise AI Governance
Airia originally set out to build an AI agent orchestration platform, but through thousands of conversations with customers and industry leaders, Kevin recognized a critical and largely unaddressed gap: the ability to see, secure, and govern AI agents once they are operational inside the enterprise.
He made the strategic call to expand Airia’s platform to include enterprise-grade security and governance capabilities, not as an add-on, but as a foundational pillar. That reframe changed the trajectory of the company. Rather than building another tool for creating AI agents, Kevin pushed Airia to become the platform that could detect threats and enforce policy at runtime across every AI agent in an organization, regardless of where or how it was built.
Today, Airia is the only unified platform that discovers, secures, orchestrates, and governs AI agents across both first party and third party environments with execution level enforcement. The platform delivers:
- Cross platform AI discovery spanning Microsoft Copilot, Amazon Bedrock, Salesforce, and more
- Runtime security enforcement with real time protection for AI agents in motion
- Agent constraints and guardrails enabling granular control over agent autonomy
- Execution level logging and auditability for full traceability across the enterprise
- Alignment to compliance frameworks including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001
Why This Recognition Matters
As AI agents proliferate across departments, each making autonomous decisions that affect customers, finances, and regulatory standing, the inability to audit or explain those decisions is no longer a theoretical risk. It is a present one.
Kevin built Airia around that reality, helping hundreds of enterprises deploy AI with the visibility and control their boards, regulators, and customers demand. This Security Innovator Award validates the critical importance of AI governance in the enterprise and recognizes Kevin Kiley’s leadership in bringing this vision to market.
Govern Your AI with Confidence
As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, the need for comprehensive security and governance has never been greater. Airia provides the foundation organizations need to deploy AI agents with the control and visibility required to meet regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations.
Start securing and governing your enterprise AI agents today with Airia. Connect with a member of our team to see how Airia can help you secure and govern AI across your organization.
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