About Aegis

Founder-led governance modernization for cyber, AI, data, privacy, and digital risk.

Aegis combines practical cybersecurity/GRC leadership with AI governance, privacy-aware accountability, and legal-informed technology strategy.

Why Aegis

Aegis helps organizations modernize governance for today’s cyber, AI, data, privacy, and digital risk environment.

We connect strategy, risk, controls, accountability, and executive visibility into a practical operating model that leaders can understand, manage, and scale.

Architecture-driven

Starts with systems, capabilities, owners, dependencies, data flows, and trust boundaries.

Risk-centered

Connects governance design to enterprise risk decisions, tolerance, monitoring, and executive visibility.

AI-era ready

Addresses AI agents, automated decisions, data readiness, privacy accountability, and third-party AI exposure.

Operationally practical

Designs models that can be implemented, monitored, automated, and matured over time.

Founder-Led Expertise

Complementary experience across cybersecurity governance, enterprise risk, AI governance, privacy, technology law, and regulatory strategy.

Mahary Araia

Relevant Background

Cybersecurity and GRC leader with more than a decade of experience across public and private sector environments, including governance modernization, enterprise risk, compliance, security controls, executive reporting, and scalable risk programs.

Aegis Contribution

Brings practical GRC leadership, security governance depth, enterprise risk program experience, and the ability to translate complex cyber, compliance, and AI-era risk requirements into operating models clients can implement.

Colin Caleb, Esq.

Relevant Background

AI governance architect and researcher, former federal regulatory attorney, technology law adjunct, and AI literacy advocate. He serves on IAPP’s AI governance advisory board. His background includes finance and securities law, training and writing on AI governance work, and Co-Executive Editor work for an IAPP-sponsored AI governance textbook.

Aegis Contribution

Brings legal-informed AI governance, privacy-aware accountability, technology law perspective, regulatory strategy, and a strong understanding of how AI literacy, legal judgment, and governance design intersect.