Operator lens
Built for execution
Navigator is shaped around ownership, follow-through, and readiness instead of passive tracking.
Founder and leadership
Leadership behind DeepBlu Navigator.
DeepBlu Navigator is led by Mark Jones and shaped by more than two decades of executive cybersecurity experience across governance, risk, privacy, compliance, security program development, architecture, threat management, and incident response.
Background
20+ years
Security, architecture, incident response, risk, privacy, and program leadership in complex environments.
First conversation
Focused and practical
The goal is to review your current operating pain and show the workflows that matter first, not force a generic product tour.
Mark Jones, Founder & CEO
Why I built Navigator
Built by a security leader who has had to run the work, report the risk, and answer for the outcome.
My background spans executive security leadership, architecture, threat management, incident response, governance, risk, privacy, and program development across large and complex environments.
Navigator reflects that operating perspective. It is built around ownership, readiness, trust, and weekly execution instead of abstract GRC messaging, spreadsheet-era process, or passive register thinking.
- 20+ years leading security, architecture, threat, and program execution in complex environments.
- Executive experience spanning security strategy, incident response, governance, risk, privacy, and operating discipline.
- A product point of view shaped by building teams and systems that have to work beyond a demo.
What a first conversation should feel like
Useful, practical, and grounded in the workflows your team actually has to run.
Start with the pain you already have
The best first conversation is usually about the workflows creating real drag now, not a top-to-bottom feature walkthrough.
See the product through that lens
The product review should focus on how Navigator handles ownership, readiness, evidence, trust work, and operational follow-through in those areas.
Leave with a practical next step
If there is a fit, the next step should be clear and realistic, whether that means a focused follow-up or a small pilot workspace.
Experience behind the product
The areas of leadership experience that directly shape how Navigator is built.
Executive security leadership
Experience setting strategy, building teams, aligning with business stakeholders, and turning security into an operating function rather than a side process.
Risk, compliance, and trust
A practical point of view on governance, evidence, audit readiness, third-party risk, and customer trust based on running those motions in large organizations.
Architecture and engineering
A background in security engineering and architecture that informs how systems should actually work in production, not just in a roadmap deck.
Threat and incident response
Hands-on leadership across monitoring, response, threat management, and the disciplines required to stay credible when the pressure is real.
How that experience shows up in the product
The operating principles behind Navigator.
The point of view behind the product is straightforward: risk, compliance, audits, vendors, and trust should run like an operating system with clear ownership and follow-through, not like a collection of disconnected trackers and presentation exercises.
Make ownership obvious.
Operationalize risk and compliance instead of treating them like reporting-only disciplines.
Keep readiness visible before an audit or diligence request arrives.
Reduce operational drag instead of adding more governance theater.
Give leadership and customers a trust story grounded in current reality.