# Ash Devata > Ash Devata is CEO. GreyNoise on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ash-devata/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ash-devata/index.md (~1,200 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ash-devata/index.min.md (~980 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ash-devata/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT .grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-03 CEO. Ash Devata has been CEO of GreyNoise since February 2024. He joined from Cisco, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Duo and Zero Trust businesses after Cisco's acquisition of Duo, and earlier held senior product roles at RSA. ## What Ash builds - [GreyNoise](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greynoise.md), graded B, 66/100, in Security intelligence. GreyNoise classifies IP addresses seen scanning the internet as benign, malicious, suspicious or unknown, with tags, exploited CVEs and business-service trust levels, through a v3 REST API, a Python SDK and an official local MCP server. CEO, researched 2026-11-03. ## Works with - [Andrew Morris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-morris/), Founder and Chief Architect - [Bob Rudis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bob-rudis/), VP of Data Science and Research, maintainer of the MCP server ## Backed by - [Radian Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/radian-capital/) - [CRV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/crv/) - [Inner Loop Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/inner-loop-capital/) - [StoneMill Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/stonemill-ventures/) - [Paladin Capital Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/paladin-capital-group/) - [Oliver Friedrichs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/oliver-friedrichs/) - [Bryson Bort](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bryson-bort/) - [Pedram Amini](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pedram-amini/) ## Questions ### Who is Ash Devata? Ash Devata has been CEO of GreyNoise since February 2024. He joined from Cisco, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Duo and Zero Trust businesses after Cisco's acquisition of Duo, and earlier held senior product roles at RSA. ### What does GreyNoise Intelligence, Inc. make? Anchor Terminal lists GreyNoise from GreyNoise Intelligence, Inc.. GreyNoise classifies IP addresses seen scanning the internet as benign, malicious, suspicious or unknown, with tags, exploited CVEs and business-service trust levels, through a v3 REST API, a Python SDK and an official local MCP server. ### Who has invested in GreyNoise Intelligence, Inc.? The sources our research read name Radian Capital, CRV, Inner Loop Capital, StoneMill Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Oliver Friedrichs, Bryson Bort and Pedram Amini. ### How are Ash's tools graded? GreyNoise is graded B, 66 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://www.greynoise.io/about - https://www.greynoise.io/contact - https://www.greynoise.io/press/ash-devata-appointed-as-new-ceo-of-greynoise-intelligence - https://greynoise.io/blog/weve-hired-ash-devata-as-ceo-at-greynoise-and-i-get-my-dream-job - https://www.greynoise.io/press/greynoise-intelligence-launches-model-context-protocol-mcp-server-power-future-of-agentic-soc - https://github.com/GreyNoise-Intelligence/greynoise-mcp-server - https://github.com/GreyNoise-Intelligence/pygreynoise - https://www.greynoise.io/press/cybersecurity-startup-greynoise-secures-seed-funding-to-reduce-internet-background-noise - https://www.paladincapgroup.com/paladin-portfolio-company-greynoise-announces-4-8m-seed-investment-to-filter-harmless-security-alerts - https://www.greynoise.io/press/greynoise-raises-15-million-in-series-a-funding-to-fight-cyber-distractions-and-mass-vulnerability-exploitation These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp