
Monzy MerzaCo-founder & CEO
In this interview, Crogl co-founder and CEO Monzy Merza discusses the evolution of security operations and the launch of the company's free enterprise-grade AI SOC platform. Merza analyzes the core drivers of alert fatigue, including data fragmentation and practitioner competency barriers. He details Crogl's neurosymbolic architecture—integrating large language models, deterministic knowledge graphs, and secure harnesses—and highlights the strategic necessity of on-prem deployments in safeguarding critical global infrastructure.
Founder Stats
- AI
- Started 2023
- Not Publicly Disclosed/mo
- 6–20 team
- Los Ranchos, New Mexico, United States
About Monzy Merza
Monzy Merza is the co-founder and CEO of Crogl, a cybersecurity company building autonomous AI knowledge engines for security operations centers. Prior to founding Crogl in 2023, he led security research and GTM strategies at major platforms including Splunk and Databricks. Merza has also served at HSBC and within the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, bringing decades of deep practitioner expertise to enterprise security automation.
Interview
July 20, 2026
What is Crogl's core mission statement?
Crogl acts as an AI SOC agent that enables security teams to hunt threats and investigate alerts using all their existing data without having to move it.
Why is data fragmentation a significant issue in security operations?
How does Crogl handle normalized data across different data stores?
How has the cybersecurity community's perception of AI evolved recently?
Why is a simple chatbot insufficient for enterprise security operations?
What are the three primary drivers of alert fatigue?
Why is it unreasonable to expect analysts to have broad competencies?
How does Crogl's neurosymbolic agentic system architecture function?
Why did you decide to build Crogl as an on-premise technology?
How can organizations balance automation with human oversight when deploying Crogl?
Why is requiring constant human-in-the-loop oversight untenable for SOCs?
What are the three degrees of human decision-making in security automation?
What motivated Crogl to release a free enterprise-grade AI SOC platform?
How does the Slack community support users of your free platform?
For what specific types of environments is Crogl's platform designed?
How will artificial intelligence reshape security operations over the next year?
Table Of Questions
Video Interviews with Monzy Merza
Can AI Really Solve Alert Fatigue? | Monzy, CEO & Co-Founder of Crogl
Cite This Interview
Use this interview in your research, article, or academic work
Related Interviews

Mo Gharbat
Founder & CEO at Open
In this interview, Mo Gharbat, Founder and CEO of Open, discusses building an enterprise artificial intelligence customer communication platform that replaces legacy support systems. He…

Sam Altman
Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI
In this interview, Sam Altman discusses the accelerating pace of artificial intelligence, the realities of preparing OpenAI for a public offering while preserving its nonprofit…

Sravanth Aluru
Co-Founder & CEO at Avataar
In this interview, Sravanth Aluru breaks down the architectural shift toward AI-native enterprises, arguing that organizations must deploy a central intelligence layer rather than relying…

Jensen Huang
Co-founder & CEO at NVIDIA
In this interview, Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, sits down with Anderson Cooper to address the most urgent questions surrounding AI safety, autonomous…

Noah Shinn
Founder & CEO at Instinct
In this interview, Noah Shinn, founder and CEO of Instinct, breaks down what a personal AI agent actually means in practice, how the product is…

Diogo Almeida
Co-Founder & CEO at TypeSafe AI
In this interview, Diogo Almeida, co-founder and CEO of TypeSafe AI, breaks down why the industry has been building the wrong kind of AI for…