Career profile
Melissa Knight
Chief Information Security Officer, Tego Cyber
- Current role, per sources checked 21 October 2026
- 1 March 2023
Melissa Knight is the Chief Information Security Officer of Tego Cyber, appointed in March 2023.
Career path
Knight is a cybersecurity executive with 20 years in the field, with a career spanning government and commercial sectors and a focus on Cyber Defense Operations.
She held leadership roles with the Department of Defense and the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration security operations teams, and served as an active CSIRT member supporting government intrusion cases.
Knight then moved into the private sector as Global Head of Security Operations for Sands Corporation, where she built the company's first Security Operations Center on the Las Vegas Strip and went on to stand up additional SOCs in Macau and Singapore, developing three Global SOCs in under a year.
She next served as Vice President of Managed Security Services for Herjavec Group, reporting to CEO Robert Herjavec and managing more than 120 people across functional business units.
Knight subsequently became Chief Information Security Officer at Brier & Thorn, a managed security service provider.
In 2022 she co-founded the APIsecure conference alongside Alissa Knight, with Traceable AI and apidays as co-founders, and is listed as a partner at Knight Ink, Knight Events and Knight Studios.
Tego Cyber, a cybersecurity software-as-a-service company focused on threat correlation and threat hunting powered by curated threat intelligence, appointed Knight as CISO effective March 1, 2023, alongside the appointment of Stephen Semeniw as Vice President of Sales.
Focus areas
Knight specializes in security operations, threat intelligence and incident response, and has a track record of building and leading security teams.
She has described having worked with numerous threat intelligence companies over the course of her two-decade career before joining Tego Cyber.
On joining the company, Knight said: "I can confidently say that Tego is a necessity for any company needing real-time threat intelligence to lower the mean time to detection while eliminating alert fatigue in a company's SIEM environment."
Her extensive experience in security operations and incident response has supported the development of cybersecurity strategies intended to help businesses protect their data and infrastructure.
