Hello

I’m Matt Hajda – an entrepreneur, cyber security leader, and executive coach. I’m currently serving as an enterprise security architect at Dell Technologies focusing on Identity and Access Management and Agentic AI.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is becoming even more critical as enterprises adopt agentic AI systems capable of autonomous action. As these AI agents plan, decide, and execute tasks across infrastructure, applications, and data, identity—not the network—remains the primary control point for determining what actions are permitted, under what conditions, and with what level of oversight. IAM provides the foundation for binding agent identities to least-privilege access, enforcing policy-driven constraints, and ensuring traceability and accountability for both human and non-human actors. In this model, IAM is no longer just about securing users; it is the governance layer that enables agentic AI to operate at scale without introducing unacceptable operational or security risk.

Through my background in people leadership and technical roles – IT Director, Security Analyst, Penetration Tester, IT Systems Engineer, and Security Architect, I have gained a depth of knowledge and experience across many security domains: Identity and Access Management; Application and Data Security; Infrastructure and Endpoint; Security Intelligence / Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Cloud-based Services (AWS, Azure, GCP). This makes me uniquely qualified to not only identify potential threats but also devise creative solutions to mitigate them.

As an entrepreneur, I am building a large-scale e-commerce business while advising leaders through executive coaching, which has sharpened my ability to evaluate business capabilities and allocate capital for maximum impact. This perspective directly informs my cybersecurity work, where I assess risk and prioritize security investments through a business-first lens – aligning strategic security capabilities with measurable enterprise outcomes rather than purely technical considerations.