Why I Joined Torq, and What Comes Next

Three times in 28 years of enterprise software leadership, I’ve been inside a company at the exact moment it had to become something bigger. At Palo Alto Networks, I led the Technical Sales and Consulting organization through the company’s platform-to-cloud transformation. At Splunk, I helped scale its cloud transformation and build the operational foundation ahead of its acquisition by Cisco. At HashiCorp, I scaled the global technical field organization and then helped architect its acquisition and integration into IBM.

Each of those companies hit the same inflection point. The product had earned its place, the customers were there, and what mattered next was whether the company could grow fast enough to match the scale of the opportunity in front of it. 

Torq is at that moment right now, and it’s why I joined as President and COO.

The SOC Is Being Rebuilt 

We’re deep into the age of agentic AI, and enterprises are racing to put it to work. That same wave is expanding the attack surface at a rate we haven’t seen before. Generative AI, the spread of autonomous agents, and the massive volumes of data moving between agents and endpoints all create new ground to defend.

For enterprise security teams, that means protecting environments that span machine identities, hybrid infrastructure, distributed data, and a patchwork of security tools. A SOC that runs on human-speed processes and manual triage can’t keep pace with that.

Enterprises need a fundamentally different way to defend themselves, and Torq is built to deliver it. The Torq AI SOC Platform gives security teams the intelligence, automation, and control to operate and defend at machine speed, with specialized AI Agents doing the advanced work and people overseeing the decisions that matter.

What This Team Has Already Built

It would be a miss if I didn’t start by recognizing the people who got Torq here. Torq has accomplished something extraordinary: It built a category-defining platform and won the trust of some of the world’s most discerning enterprises.

Global enterprises like PepsiCo, Siemens, Telefónica, and Virgin Atlantic trust the Torq AI SOC Platform with their security operations. KuppingerCole Analysts named Torq a Leader in its 2026 Leadership Compass for the Emerging AI SOC, and IDC named Torq a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment.

Ofer and the founding team saw the changes coming early and built for it. The rest of the Torq team turned that vision into a platform enterprises trust to run their security operations. To everyone who took Torq from ideation to reality, you should be very proud.

Scale Is A Neuropath

“Scale” is one of the most overused words in our industry, so I’ll be specific. To me, scale is the neuropath that lets a company add a much larger customer base, a broader product portfolio, and a larger global team while adding fly-wheel DNA. It’s the immediate processes, systems, and handoffs built for the company you’ll be in two years.

I come back to two questions with every team I lead: How do we scale ourselves, and how do we enable others to scale around us? Every system we run at Torq has to be ready for many times the number of customers we serve today.

I’m not here to change what’s working. Torq already has all the marbles on the table: the product, the customers, the team. My job is to build the connective tissue that lets us roll faster. 

Our Ambition: Double Every Year

Torq’s plan is ambitious, and I’d rather be direct about it. We intend to double in size annually. That means significantly growing our global workforce and our enterprise customer base, further differentiating our product portfolio, and pursuing a strategic portfolio, partnerships, and acquisitions.

The bad guys are highly automated, and now, in this agentic economy, their capabilities have been expanded upon exponentially. We know our differentiated product-market fit and which enterprise customers benefit from the automation and agentic platform, getting the best MTTC and MTTR. Security is a platform play, not a point product archetype. . We’re aligning every function, from product to go-to-market to customer success, around serving those customers, because that’s where we see exponential returns.

With that alignment in place, we have a clear path to triple-digit growth in 2027 and 2028.

How We’ll Operate: One Team, Flying in Formation

Growth at this pace puts pressure on every part of a company, and culture is what holds it together. As we scale, we’ll run Torq on three principles:

1. We operate as one team, no matter where you sit in the company.
2. We help each other toward the common goal. When something breaks, we fix the process instead of looking for someone to blame.
3. We fly in formation. Everyone knows where we’re headed and how their work fits in, so we can move fast together.

We’ll stay focused on our north stars, and we’ll trust in the mission, the strategy, and each other.

Our digital way of life is under consistent threat. Those protecting it are under continuous pressure to ensure they protect their brand and customers. The risk vectors continue to multiply, and Torq plays a critical role in providing a single point of MTTC and MTTR for all the other security brands doing their individual parts

We proved that the agentic SOC is the future of security operations. Now we’re scaling the company that will define this category for the next decade, and our ambition is clear. Torq will be the platform every SOC runs on. I couldn’t be more excited to build that future alongside this team.

Let’s roll up our sleeves.