Career profile
Clayton C. Peddy
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), ABBYY
- Current role, per sources checked 15 September 2026
- May 2024
Clayton C. Peddy is the Chief Information Security Officer of ABBYY, appointed in May 2024.
Career path
Before joining ABBYY, Peddy held security leadership roles at OutSystems and Citrix.
He brought more than two decades of experience in cybersecurity, software development, architecture consulting, and digital transformation to the role.
As CISO, Peddy leads information security across ABBYY's products and global operations, and he drives the company's secure development lifecycle frameworks and the ABBYY Trust Center, which serves as the public home for ABBYY's commitments to transparency, confidentiality, privacy, and ethical AI.
On his appointment, Peddy said, "Customer trust is our foundation, and I am dedicated to setting new benchmarks in information security within the industry."
Outside of ABBYY, Peddy has served as a Computer Science Industry Board Member at California State University, Chico, and volunteers with youth programs.
Public talks and published work
Peddy is a published author and a speaker in the cybersecurity and technology sectors.
His talks include What will define the next generation of cyber-resilience? for Intelligent CISO and Why 'buy vs build' Is the wrong question for AI strategy for ChannelPro.
He has also discussed ABBYY's approach to balancing AI hype and real value in a piece for MIT's blog.
In September 2026, Peddy joined Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, on the InformationWeek Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence can fit into a layered security strategy and its effect on alert fatigue in security operations centers.
During the same episode, Peddy and Dean took part in the Questionable Ideas tabletop exercise, testing their resilience strategies against a set of fictional threats.
