Alan LeFort is CEO and co-founder of StrongestLayer, an AI-native email security company. With 25 years in cybersecurity leadership at Proofpoint, McAfee, and Intel, he focuses on the intersection of AI and email security architecture. He writes regularly for CSO Online and TechRadar on why pattern-based detection has become an architectural dead end against AI-generated attacks. He joined StrongestLayer in 2025 after advising the founding team, convinced that reasoning-based detection, not signature matching, would define the next decade of email security. He holds an Executive MBA from the Rotman School of Management.