Founder
Shawn Wilson
Shawn has spent his career in information technology, and more than twenty years of it in banking, an industry where the cost of a missed intrusion is measured in regulatory findings, customer trust, and real money. That environment shaped how he works. Banking IT means running a production network under continuous examination, where every control has to be documented, defensible, and genuinely working rather than merely purchased. Along the way he has done nearly every job in the stack, from workstations and networks to servers, infrastructure, and the security program that sits over all of it, and he has done it in the kind of organization where the same person who writes the policy also answers the alert at two in the morning.
That mix is unusual, and it is the reason MeerKat exists. Shawn watched the security industry build excellent tools for keeping attackers out while the question of noticing the ones already inside stayed expensive, complicated, or both, which put it out of reach for exactly the organizations that needed it most. MeerKat is his answer: detection that an ordinary business can actually deploy, sized and priced for companies that do not have a security operations center and never will. He still spends his days inside a working IT environment, which keeps the product honest about what real networks and real staff can handle.