Allen Westley

Allen Westley is a senior cybersecurity leader and practitioner with over 20 years of experience securing high-risk environments where failure carries real consequences. His work sits at the intersection of AI-enabled systems, human decision integrity, and national-security-grade risk management—focused on what breaks when autonomy, speed, and trust collide.

Allen currently leads cyber intelligence efforts across classified systems in the Defense Industrial Base, where he works directly with security engineering, incident response, and governance teams navigating the rapid introduction of AI into operational workflows. His day-to-day work includes assessing agentic tool use, shadow AI adoption, and the silent erosion of human judgment in environments where AI outputs increasingly influence decisions without explicit delegation.