Career profile
Lucas Moody
Chief Information Security Officer, Astera Labs
- Current role, per sources checked 7 September 2026
- Not stated in the sources
Lucas Moody is the Chief Information Security Officer of Astera Labs, where he leads the company's security and IT functions.
Career path
He began his security career in consulting and engineering roles at KPMG, Oracle, Intuit, and eBay/PayPal.
Moody joined Palo Alto Networks in 2015 as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer.
He later served as Chief Information Security Officer at Rubrik.
Moody then became Head of Security Technology at Twitter, where he oversaw global security technology teams protecting the company's more than 192 million daily users.
In April 2022, Alteryx named him Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Mark Anderson.
At Alteryx, he built the company's security organization, worked to embed security into the product, and supported sales enablement through the firm's technology foundations.
Moody subsequently joined Astera Labs as Chief Information Security Officer.
Remit and approach
At Astera Labs, Moody is responsible for protecting the company's products, customers and infrastructure as it scales its position in AI connectivity. He describes security as a function that should enable a business to thrive rather than slow it, and says the discipline works best when woven into how a company designs, builds and operates. Across more than two and a half decades of leadership, he has worked in security operations, risk management, security engineering, fraud prevention, forensics and threat intelligence, scaling security functions through hyper-growth, initial public offerings and enterprise transformation. He has also advised several security and technology startup companies and has served as an executive sponsor for employee resource groups and women-in-technology initiatives. While at Palo Alto Networks, his profile was featured among RSA Conference experts, describing him as a technology executive focused on information security thought leadership. On joining Alteryx, Moody said, "I am excited and honored to be part of a mission to help companies democratize analytics."
