About Haseen Usman Ahmed

I am Haseen Usman Ahmed, a cybersecurity executive, CISO, AI security strategist, and cyber defense platform innovator with more than two decades protecting regulated, high-trust, and mission-critical environments. My work spans banking, financial services, MSSPs, technology, healthcare, e-commerce, government, and critical infrastructure across North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

I bring together three capabilities rarely found in one security leader: board-level CISO leadership, deep offensive security expertise, and applied AI security innovation. My career began hands-on, in penetration testing, red teaming, secure code review, digital forensics, and incident response. That foundation still shapes every executive decision I make: strategy must be grounded in how real attackers operate, how controls fail, how regulators evaluate risk, and how business leaders make investment decisions.

I have led global IT security, payment security, cyber defense, and compliance for a major international bank serving more than 22 million customers across 17 countries, driving enterprise PCI DSS and ISO 27001 certification. Earlier, I served in senior cyber, technology, compliance, and operational risk roles at Citibank, and advised hundreds of organizations as CISO and vCISO for a managed security services provider: over 500 compromise assessments, 1,000 security audits, and 200 forensic investigations.

Today my focus is where AI meets defense: private LLM deployments, RAG architectures, AI agent workflows, prompt-injection defense, guardrails, zero-retention design, and AI risk governance, alongside next-generation cyber defense platforms that connect threat intelligence, detection engineering, and automated response into one risk-prioritized operating model. I am also a published author on PCI DSS compliance and a contributor to global certification and standards development.