About TALAS Security
Built to Simplify.
Designed to Strengthen.
We started with a whiteboard and a single goal: To make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to every organization.
To Simplify, Organize, and Strengthen Cybersecurity.
A world where cybersecurity is Integrated across every aspect of the organizational mission.
Paul Marco is a Co-founder of TALAS Security with over 20 years of IT and Cybersecurity experience spanning Cybersecurity Operations, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Identity & Access Management, and Threat Intelligence. Paul specializes in designing cybersecurity solutions and operationalizing control.
Owahn Bazydlo is a Co-Founder of TALAS Security with over 10 years of IT and Cybersecurity experience focused on Cybersecurity Strategy in both Operations and Engineering. A trained Six Sigma Greenbelt, Owahn specializes in process development, optimization, and establishing long-term cybersecurity program strategy.
Zaid Kazi is a Cybersecurity Engineer at TALAS Security with over 4 years of experience focused on Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration, and Zero Trust security. His expertise spans SSO, Conditional Access, identity lifecycle management, and access governance. Zaid holds an M.S. in Cybersecurity from Syracuse University.
Aidan Walsh is a Cybersecurity Analyst at TALAS Security focused on Cybersecurity Operations, Threat Detection, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence. He joined TALAS as an intern in May 2025 and is pursuing a B.S. in Cybersecurity at Le Moyne College with a 4.0 GPA, expected to graduate Fall 2026.
When we set out to build TALAS in June 2021, we knew what we were after, a cybersecurity service that made sense of it all. One that would let organizations simplify, get organized around control, and know exactly where to focus. It was time to invest in a whiteboard.
Cybersecurity can be complicated, spanning domains such as Access, Networking, Risk, Governance, and Incident Response, just to name a few. The real challenge is making all those parts work together. After months of research, we found our answer: Control. This led us to develop the TALAS Control Stack, a proprietary framework that maps every element of cybersecurity back to a single unifying concept.
Networks, threats, technology, and attack surfaces are in perpetual change. Point-in-time services become obsolete fast. We built our service to be fast, efficient, and enabling. Allowing us to equip our clients with the tools, skills and methodologies they can continue leveraging long after we've wrapped.
Simplification is powerful, but real success means prioritizing risk. On average, 40% of our directives are low-cost and low-effort. We prioritize immediate risk reductions through minor configuration changes, often at zero cost. We built mechanisms to surface exactly where risk-reduction opportunities exist.
We spent our careers building large, complex cybersecurity programs for enterprise companies. With shifting threat trends and attackers targeting the most vulnerable, we knew it was time to make that same caliber of security available to everyone. Most organizations already have many of the components needed, they just don't know where to start. Once you do, it all makes sense.
"If we could just get organizations to take a look at security…" That one statement, repeated late into the evening over countless conversations, became who we are.
