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Ross McKerchar
Ross McKerchar is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Sophos. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Edinburgh University and joined Sophos in 2007. During his tenure with the company, he has successfully established, scaled, and matured the internal cybersecurity program. The CISO team helps keep customers safe by keeping Sophos products, infrastructure, and services safe. Ross believes that authenticity and transparency are key to achieving the team's core goal: becoming the most trusted brand in cybersecurity.
Content by Ross McKerchar
Security Operations
AI
Hugging Face
Anthropic
OpenAI
When AI doesn’t know the target is real
July 31, 2026
Sophos SecOps
Secure by Design
Firewall
Secure by Design in practice: a year of progress on Sophos Firewall
July 29, 2026
Threat Research
AI Research
Why Sophos Has Become Its Own AI Test Lab
July 27, 2026
Security Operations
AI
OpenAI
Hugging Face
When the "attacker" is an AI agent
July 23, 2026
Sophos SecOps
Mythos
AI
bug bounty
Bug bounties in the Mythos era
June 11, 2026
Threat Research
AI
CISO
risk
Operating inside the lethal trifecta: Blast radius reduction in AI agent deployments
May 12, 2026
Security Operations
CISO
playbook
toolkit
passkeys
Strengthening authentication with passkeys: A CISO playbook
April 22, 2026
Sophos Insights
LLM
AI
Exploit
vulnerability
Active Adversary
Pacific Rim
The vulnerability flood is here. Here’s what it means – and how to prepare
April 9, 2026
Threat Research
OpenClaw
LLM
AI
penetration testing
Red Team
CISO
Sophos X-Ops
We let OpenClaw loose on an internal network. Here’s what it found
April 9, 2026
