CodeHunter has appointed Stephen McCarney as its new Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) to lead the company's corporate strategy, market expansion, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market initiatives. The appointment supports CodeHunter's efforts to scale its Zero Trust for Code platform across enterprise software supply chain security, DevSecOps, endpoint security, and security operations environments.
CodeHunter's latest executive appointment comes as organizations face growing software supply chain risks driven by AI-generated code, automated development tools, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
Unlike traditional Zero Trust architectures that primarily secure identities, devices, networks, applications, workloads, and data, CodeHunter applies Zero Trust principles directly to software. Its platform evaluates software behavior and capabilities before execution, helping organizations determine whether code should be trusted to run.
The company believes this additional security layer is becoming increasingly important as enterprises integrate AI-assisted software development into production environments.
As Chief Strategy Officer, Stephen McCarney will oversee CodeHunter's corporate strategy while expanding strategic partnerships and accelerating market adoption across enterprise and government sectors.
Before joining CodeHunter, McCarney served as Chief Marketing Officer at Merlin Group, where he supported cybersecurity companies serving U.S. government and critical infrastructure organizations.
Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions at OPAQ Networks, contributing to the growth of one of the industry's early cloud-based Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) platforms before the company's acquisition by Fortinet. He also held senior leadership roles at Arxan Technologies and Unisys.
"Stephen has spent his entire career helping category-defining cybersecurity companies translate technical innovation into market leadership," said Ken Ammon, CEO of CodeHunter. "His experience scaling Zero Trust, SASE, cloud security, application security and emerging technology companies will be instrumental as we expand Zero Trust for Code into a critical control layer for enterprise and AI security."
According to CodeHunter, the rapid growth of AI-generated code and autonomous software development is reshaping cybersecurity requirements across enterprise environments.
The company's Zero Trust for Code platform focuses on analyzing software behavior before execution, enabling organizations to prevent malicious code from running, reduce security alert fatigue, and automate security decisions across software development pipelines, endpoints, and operational environments.
"AI-generated code, autonomous development tools and machine-speed attacks are challenging the assumptions behind traditional detection and software supply chain security," said Stephen McCarney, Chief Strategy Officer of CodeHunter. "The need for CodeHunter, which is defining a new control plane that focuses on whether software should be trusted before it runs, couldn’t be stronger. I’m looking forward to helping the company scale its partner ecosystem and capitalize on the market demand for Zero Trust for Code among enterprises and government agencies."
As software supply chain attacks continue to evolve alongside AI-powered development practices, CodeHunter aims to position Zero Trust for Code as an additional security control that complements existing Zero Trust architectures while strengthening enterprise software assurance.
CodeHunter provides Zero Trust for Code, enabling organizations to determine whether software should be trusted before it runs. Founded in 2021, with roots in U.S. government research labs, CodeHunter analyzes the behavior and intent of software artifacts prior to execution. This helps enterprises prevent malicious code from running, reduce alert overload, and automate security decisions across development pipelines, endpoints, and enterprise environments. The company focuses on organizations in regulated industries that require high assurance, operational resilience, and auditable security controls. For more information, visit www.codehunter.com.
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