About Parable

Building the trust layer for the AI era

Parable Security helps organizations verify whether people, requests, and digital interactions can be trusted before employees or AI agents click, pay, share, or approve.

Our mission

Protect decisions, not just systems.

The overlooked attack surface

Organizations can verify identity and access, but nothing checks whether a request should be trusted before someone acts on it. The most damaging attacks now exploit trust (impersonation, invoice fraud, deepfakes), not broken systems.

And AI has made that deception faster, cheaper, and more convincing than ever, while annual awareness training just closes a compliance checkbox and leaves the real exposure unmeasured.

A new layer of defense

Parable is building Trust Intelligence: a real-time layer that scores the trustworthiness of every request and interaction, explains the risk, and guides people to verify before they act.

The goal isn’t awareness; it’s measurable, defensible risk reduction that informs security strategy and builds genuine resilience against the threats that matter most.

Beyond the organization

Manipulation and fraud cost people billions every year, and the same AI tools driving enterprise attacks are aimed at everyday people. We start with organizations because that’s where the leverage is highest, but our deeper mission is a world where no one, employee or individual, falls victim to deception.

Team

Built by founders from MIT & Harvard

Felix Awah

Felix Awah

Co-Founder & CEO

MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (’27) with a background in process engineering and data science from McGill. He held senior roles across pharma and fintech, spanning R&D, technical operations, and the rollout of security training and operational controls, and has founded ventures and led nonprofits across Africa, North America, and the Middle East.

Peter Jang, MS, CISSP

Peter Jang, MS, CISSP

Co-Founder & CTO

Cybersecurity engineer and former U.S. Army Cyber Warfare Officer who built software and security systems for defense and national-security organizations. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BS from West Point, is an MBA candidate at MIT Sloan, and holds multiple security certifications.

Andrew Reed, PhD, CISSP

Andrew Reed, PhD, CISSP

Advisor

Cybersecurity researcher and educator whose published work on Internet privacy and traffic analysis has appeared at USENIX Security and IEEE CSF. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and brings deep expertise in identity, access management, and security architecture.

Emmanuel Okochu, CISSP

Emmanuel Okochu, CISSP

Advisor

Seasoned cybersecurity architect, leader, and trusted advisor who has delivered enterprise security transformation across 6+ industries, with 8+ years in enterprise security operations and 4+ in consulting leadership. He has built and matured security programs at some of Africa's largest businesses.

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Design partner program

Help us define Trust Intelligence.

We’re partnering with a small group of design partners: founder-led onboarding, direct roadmap influence, and a 30-day Trust Exposure Assessment.