OUR VISION

Obsidian was founded in 2017 by three opinionated veterans of the cybersecurity industry. Former competitors Chisholm, Wolff, and Johnson united to build a ground-up data infrastructure. Earlier in their careers, Johnson and Wolff worked for the NSA while Chisholm was Chief Information Security Officer at the giant Australian telecom, Telstra. Their backgrounds in threat prevention, detection and response, as well as their experience building products and supporting customers at Carbon Black and Cylance make them the right team to tackle security of today’s sprawling hybrid-cloud environments. These former competitors created Obsidian because they recognized the importance of centralized account visibility, continuous account monitoring after login, and the strength of building a ML-driven identity graph for organizations.