
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?
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