1Password has appointed technology leader Nancy Wang as its Chief Technology Officer, a strategic hire aimed at advancing the company's innovation in identity security for the age of AI. Wang, formerly of Amazon Web Services and Rubrik, will lead the global engineering organization and direct the company's AI strategy. This move highlights 1Password's focus on evolving security models to govern access for both human and non-human identities as AI agents become integral to organizational workflows.
1Password appoints Nancy Wang, former AWS Data Protection leader, as its new Chief Technology Officer.
The role is central to driving the company's AI strategy and engineering direction for identity security.
The focus is on solving new access challenges posed by non-deterministic, AI-driven workflows.
Wang brings experience scaling enterprise security platforms to billions in revenue at AWS.
1Password's AI approach is designed to be secure by design and embedded into modern tools.
The appointment underscores the shift from securing only human identities to governing AI agent access.
The appointment directly addresses the evolving identity landscape where AI agents operate using non-human credentials like API keys and tokens. Legacy security models, built for human interaction, are not designed for the continuous, non-deterministic nature of AI workflows. 1Password is positioning its platform as the necessary trust layer to govern access across this hybrid environment. “As AI moves from experimentation to real-world deployment, identity security has to evolve just as quickly,” said David Faugno, CEO of 1Password.
Nancy Wang brings significant experience in building and scaling enterprise-grade security infrastructure. In her previous role as General Manager and Director of Engineering for AWS's Data Protection business, she helped grow the portfolio to over 160,000 enterprise customers and scaled it to several billion in annual recurring revenue. Her background as a founding product manager at Rubrik and as a venture partner and investor in security and AI startups provides a strong foundation for guiding 1Password's technical vision.
The core challenge Wang is tasked with involves creating security that is both durable and intuitive. “AI introduces a new class of identity, one that doesn’t behave like a human and therefore must be governed differently from humans,” said Nancy Wang, Chief Technology Officer at 1Password. She emphasized that organizations will require a consistent trust layer to manage access across all workflows, regardless of the AI models deployed. The goal is to build security that remains trustworthy and user-friendly as AI integration deepens.
1Password's strategy involves embedding identity security directly into AI and development workflows through targeted integrations. Recent examples include providing just-in-time access for AI-driven development in Cursor, deeper integration with AWS Secrets Manager, secure credential access for AI agents via Browserbase, and native support for platforms like Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Atlas. These efforts demonstrate a practical approach to securing the new tools that are becoming part of everyday work.
With Nancy Wang at the helm of its technology organization, 1Password is reinforcing its commitment to leading the next phase of identity security. The focus is on building scalable, intuitive solutions that secure access for every identity—human and AI alike—thereby aiming to provide the trusted foundation necessary for modern, AI-forward organizations to operate safely and efficiently.
About 1Password
Trusted by over 180,000 businesses, millions of consumers, and 1 million developers, 1Password is redefining identity security for the way people and AI agents work today. Our mission is to unleash productivity without compromising security. The 1Password Extended Access Management product suite delivers zero trust security that protects, manages, and governs access to all SaaS applications, whether managed by IT or not. Built on 1Password’s Enterprise Password Manager, which secures more than 1.3 billion credentials, 1Password’s Agentic AI capabilities extend identity security to AI agents and other non-human identities. Leading companies such as Asana, Associated Press, Browserbase, Canva, Cresta, Golden State Warriors, Hugging Face, MongoDB, Octopus Energy, Salesforce, SandboxAQ, Slack, Stripe, and Under Armour trust 1Password to provide the right person or AI agent the right access to the right app from a trusted device.
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