Merritt Baer (Twitter: @MerrittBaer) is a security executive based in Miami, FL. She serves as Field CISO at Lacework, a cloud security unicorn, and serves as an advisor to a number of young companies including expanso (container orchestration and compute at the edge, based on open source protocol bacalhau). Baer advises executives on cloud security and go to market, from Fortune 100 banks, to biotech start-ups. She also helps inform the Lacework product pipeline of security threat detection and contextualization capabilities, based on practitioner feedback and the security landscape.