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Brennan Lodge
Director of Information Security and Professor,
Manhattan Institute
Brennan Lodge is Director of Information Security at the Manhattan Institute, a professor at NYU, and founder of BLodgic, where he develops AI-powered tools for cybersecurity and compliance. He has led AI security initiatives at HSBC and Goldman Sachs, created Audit CADDIE to automate governance and compliance, and launched open-source projects that applies the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for cybersecurity teams. A frequent speaker at events like Black Hat and the AI Summit, Brennan is an award winning recipient for his research and practice to help organizations adopt AI responsibly, reduce alert fatigue, and strengthen defenses in highly regulated environments.