Where CISO reality meets GTM urgency.

Alchemy Cyber is an operator-led cybersecurity firm built around a practicing Field CISO and the network that seat built. Two kinds of teams land here. Companies that need security handled, and vendors that need buyers. This page answers both: who holds the seat, and whether the room is real.

Operator-ledCyber-onlyEmbedded

An active security and GTM operator, not a consultancy bench. Every engagement runs through a senior operator who has held the seat. No juniors learning on your dime.

Deep in the buyers, budgets, and back channels of one industry. Security is the whole practice: how it is run, how it is bought, how it is staffed, and how it is sold. Nothing here is a side offering.

In your rhythm, not just on steering calls. Direct access between sessions, async support when things move, and artifacts you keep. External, but feels like a team.

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How an engagement actually runs.

The rhythm, the first 90 days, and the terms, in the open.

The feel The first 90 days The terms

Direct access and async support.
Questions go to the operator, not a ticket queue. Answers come back in your rhythm, not at the next steering call.
Clear artifacts and roadmaps.
Every engagement produces things you keep: baselines, roadmaps, board narratives. No decks about our decks.
Candid view of risk and gaps.
You get the straight read, including what is working and what is not. Candor is what the seat is hired for.
Founders, CISO, product, and sales aligned.
Security and go-to-market stop moving on separate tracks. The story the board hears and the story the market hears match.
Board and investor aware.
Work is framed the way boards and investors read it: risk, readiness, and momentum.
External, but feels like a team.
Not headcount, and not a vendor you manage. The seat embeds.

01 · Clear security and narrative baseline.
Where the program actually stands, what the story currently says, and the gap between the two, in plain language.
02 · Updated story for CISOs and boards.
The narrative rebuilt around the risk lens boards and buyers actually use.
03 · Concrete risk and GTM roadmap.
What gets fixed, what gets funded, and what goes to market, in an order you can defend.

Clean retainers. Clear scope. Most work starts with a 30-minute fit call and a one-page proposal. Retainers from $5k per month on quarterly terms. The full pricing grammar lives on the services page.

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Start with the 30-minute fit call

The problem had two sides.So does the firm.

Technical founders sell architecture. CISOs buy risk reduction. Deals stall in the space between those two languages. And on the buying side the same noise lands harder: a CISO hears more vendor pitches in a quarter than most buyers take in a year. Alchemy Cyber was built to work that gap from inside both seats. We fix security problems for enterprises, and we build go-to-market for the vendors who solve them.

The language gap

Great security doesn't sell itself. Products stall when features never connect to outcomes. The answer is not louder marketing, it is translation: the narrative rebuilt around the CISO risk lens and business impact. That is the GTM Engine's whole job.

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The noise floor

Another acronym is not a strategy. The way through the noise is not a bigger booth, it is the room itself: salons nearly every week with the people who sign security budgets. When Alchemy takes you to market, you are not cold-calling the industry. You are being introduced to it.

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The buying gap

The same pitches land on the buyer's desk, minus the leverage. We sit on the buyer's side of security deals every week: vendor selection, contract negotiation, renewal defense. The overspend ends here.

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Built by operators who value clarity over theater and outcomes over activity.

Operators, not advisors.

Advice is a deliverable. A seat is a responsibility. We hold the CISO seat and we run the GTM motion, so when we harden a security program we know what auditors and attackers actually probe, and when we take a product to market we know what security buyers actually sign. Nothing we recommend is theoretical.

The operator model The bench model

An operator has run security programs, briefed boards, and sat on the buying side of enterprise deals. The person in the room has done the job, not studied it. Scope stays tight because the operator knows what actually moves risk and revenue, and what is theater.

Every engagement runs through a senior operator who has held the seat.

No juniors learning on your dime.

The same negotiation leverage we use on our own renewals goes into every procurement engagement.

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The seat is real.

Alchemy Cyber is led by Anand Thangaraju, a practicing Field CISO with years across enterprise security, financial services, and the vendor side, including Ernst & Young and Silicon Valley Bank. He advises boards, mentors security leaders, hosts a national salon circuit, and invests in the category he works in.

Anand Thangaraju, founder of Alchemy Cyber and practicing Field CISO

01The operator years

Enterprise security, financial services, and the vendor side, including Ernst & Young and Silicon Valley Bank. The career crossed the table more than once. The practice covers both sides because the career did.

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02The seat today

A practicing Field CISO. The title is not honorary: boards briefed, programs run, security leaders mentored. The advice stays sharp because the seat stays warm.

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03The circuit

Host of a national salon circuit: invite-only rooms of security leaders, founders, and investors, gathering nearly every week in the markets where security budgets live.

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04The investor

Angel investments in the category he works in. The market read is not secondhand: he backs security companies himself.

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The firm is
the network
that seat built.

GRX, the Global Resilience Xchange, is Alchemy's invitation-only community of CISOs and security practitioners. Around it sits the wider bench the work draws on: the people who run security, the people who fund it, and the people who regulate it.

Who is in it What surrounds it What it does for you

CISOs and security practitioners, invitation-only. The room is curated, not subscribed to. These are the operators whose budgets, teams, and renewals the practice touches all week.

Active memberships and affiliations across the institutions the industry actually trusts.

ISC2
ISACA
ISSA
IAPP
OWASP
Cloud Security Alliance
SANS CISO Network
FS-ISAC
InfraGard
NIST
AIUC-1
Professional Association of CISOs
Israeli Startup Advisory Network (ISAN)
Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence
World Economic Forum
OECD
Global Council for Responsible AI
TiE

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The circuit is always on.

Salons, dinners, and closed-door sessions with the people who run security, city after city. Not an annual conference. A working rhythm: a salon nearly every week, in the markets where security budgets live.

One month on the circuit: seven salons across San Jose, Palo Alto, San Francisco twice, Dallas, Austin, and Houston. Every one invite-only. Every one full.

The circuit is in person. The work is remote-first, global.

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San Jose. On the July run: one salon, invite-only, full.

Recorded on the circuit: the Alchemy Series.

A private dining room set for a candlelit CISO Strategy Salon

The rooms we run.

Three formats, each one turnkey: GRX finds the room, fills the seats, and runs the night.

The CISO Strategy Salon

An intimate, off-the-record dinner of senior security leaders in one city, under Chatham House Rule. Alchemy curates the guest list and moderates the conversation. No stage, no slides.

Rooftop and reception nights

The community format: skyline views, drinks, and candid conversation, where the room widens past the dinner table.

Exhibitions and conference weeks

Receptions and activations alongside the industry's marquee weeks, where the hallway conversations actually happen.

I belong at the tableMembership is invitation-only, for CISOs and security practitioners. Every salon on the live calendar takes requests to join. Pick the next one.Request a seat at the next salon I want the room's attentionSponsors put their name in the room: the guest list is curated to your target persona, the night runs turnkey, and your executives sit at the table for the full evening.See how sponsorship works