Career profile
Jacob DePriest
Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer, 1Password
- Current role, per sources checked 13 November 2025
- 2 September 2024
Jacob DePriest is the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer of 1Password, responsible for protecting the company's products, customer data, and operations while enabling productivity across the business.
Career path
DePriest spent 15 years as a senior executive at the National Security Agency, where he founded and scaled the agency's Developer Experience program, served as its executive sponsor for open source, and led major IT and security transformation initiatives.
He then became Vice President and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, leading the GitHub Security team and overseeing security operations, product security, governance, and research for the platform's developer base.
DePriest joined 1Password as VP of Security and Chief Information Security Officer in early September 2024.
By November 2025, 1Password's executive leadership team listed him as Chief Information and Security Officer and Chief Information Officer, alongside other executives who had joined the leadership team earlier that year, as the company announced it had surpassed $400 million in annual recurring revenue.
Remit and public engagements
At 1Password, DePriest brings experience leading security, engineering, and IT teams to the company's work on security, privacy, and transparency.
In November 2025, he appeared on the mainstage panel From Hype to Trust: Governing AI in the Enterprise at Vanta's VantaCon conference in San Francisco, alongside the CISOs of Sublime Security and Vanta and the Deputy CISO of Anthropic, discussing how CISOs navigate the risks and rewards of AI as organizations grow.
Outside his role at 1Password, DePriest advises and invests in early-stage companies in AI and cybersecurity and has published on emerging security topics.
He has been recognized as a voice in open source security and AI-driven cybersecurity by industry publications.
DePriest holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
