I help teams ship secure products, respond to incidents, and communicate risk clearly.
Blake Darche is a security leader with over 20 years of experience in information security. He currently heads Cloudforce One at Cloudflare, where he leads a team of experts monitoring, analyzing, and responding to emerging cyber threats using Cloudflare’s unique global visibility.
His work spans threat intelligence, product detection engineering, and product response operations — from building detection and response capabilities at scale to translating complex threats into actionable defenses for customers and boards.
Blake is also an active investor and advisor in the cybersecurity industry, supporting startups that improve the security posture of enterprise organizations. He is an advisory board member at Store Labs and an investor at Drata, Backgrounder, Astro Mechanica, and Abundant Security.
Leads Cloudflare’s threat operations and intelligence team, tracking and disrupting threat actors at global scale.
Launched and built Cloudforce One, Cloudflare’s threat operations and research team.
Co-founded Area 1 Security, a pre-emptive anti-phishing security platform acquired by Cloudflare in 2022.
Built and operated security programs across endpoint detection, threat intelligence, and incident response.
Computer Network Exploitation analyst focused on offensive and defensive cyber operations.
Inventions covering packet capture tasking, distributed threat remediation, and security appliance filtering.
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Keynotes, panels, podcasts, and fireside chats — past and upcoming.
Companies and teams I’m proud to back or advise — mostly at the intersection of security, compliance, and resilient infrastructure.
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Selected coverage, bylines, and commentary. The full archive is maintained in D1 and can be updated via /admin/press.
Byline on Cloudflare Managed Defense’s multi-AI-agent security operations harness, separating deterministic evidence collection from model inference to reduce hallucinations and scope drift.
Byline on combining WAF data and OpenAI Daybreak models to prioritize vulnerabilities, prepare edge mitigations, and propose code patches.
Speaking profile for Blake Darche at CYBERUK 2026, highlighting his 20+ years of experience from NSA to CrowdStrike to Cloudflare.
Fireside chat at RSA Conference 2026 on Cloudforce One, threat intelligence, and industry challenges.