Second Front promotes nick Woodruff to General Manager, North America and tony Goodnough to Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations. New unified business unit brings implementation, mission success, and federal and commercial go-to-market under one leader, while finance and operations consolidate company-wide under a single executive WASHINGTON, DC, October 15, 2026 / Business Wire / Second Front (2F), a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world, today announced two executive promotions that change how it serves customers. Nick Woodruff has been promoted to General Manager, North America, leading a newly unified business unit. Tony Goodnough has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations. The new structure mirrors the flywheel 2F has built in the market. Consolidating implementation, mission success, and federal and commercial go-to-market into one business unit brings tighter alignment from first conversation to deployment, more velocity in getting customers into production, and the capacity to scale as demand grows. "Commercial companies, federal customers and mission owners all want the same thing from us: capability in real environments, fast," said Tyler Sweatt, CEO and Chairman of Second Front. "That takes one team, accountable end to end. Nick has lived both sides of this problem: in uniform, waiting on capability, and in industry, delivering it. I couldn't be more confident in him leading this team. Tony knows what it takes to scale. He's building the operational lever that keeps us accelerating. Speed of relevance is a choice. This is how we make it." Woodruff was promoted from Executive Vice President and Head of U.S. Government, the role he took on when he joined 2F in February 2026. As General Manager, North America, he now leads implementation and support, mission success, and both federal and commercial go-to-market. Woodruff spent more than 13 years in the U.S. Army and Special Operations before moving into leadership roles in defense technology. Prior to Second Front, he was Chief Growth Officer at Research Innovations Incorporated (RII), where he helped grow the company past $130 million in revenue, expand internationally, and establish RII across more than 15 programs of record within the DOW and the Intelligence Community. "Every handoff between teams is time an operator spends waiting on capability," said Woodruff. "We're taking those handoffs out. One team now owns the customer from the first conversation through authorization, deployment and every renewal after. I'm proud to lead the people doing that work, and I'm confident they'll continue to make 2F the fastest path from commercial innovation to the mission." Goodnough joined 2F in January 2026 as Vice President of Finance. In his expanded role, he oversees finance, talent, people, revenue operations, and investor relations, the company-wide functions that support every part of 2F. Goodnough brings more than 16 years of experience in finance, analytics, strategy and operations. He previously served as Vice President of Finance, Strategy and Operations at Nasuni. During his tenure, Nasuni scaled past $150 million in ARR, expanded into more than 70 countries, and secured strategic investment that valued the company at more than $1 billion. "Customers may never see our operations, but they feel them in how fast we move and how ready our teams are when it counts," said Goodnough. "Bringing finance, talent, people and revenue operations together lets us run 2F with the same rigor we ask of ourselves on every deployment, and gives every team at 2F a foundation built to scale." Both appointments are effective immediately. Together, they position 2F to scale its impact as more commercial companies bring their technology to the national security mission.

Akeyless achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certification to bring modern Identity Security and AI Agent safeguards to Federal Agencies. 13 Oct, 2026, 16:00 IDT FedRAMP Certification through Second Front gives federal agencies a validated path to protect sensitive systems and data amid the shift toward machine and AI-driven access. NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Akeyless, a leading provider of Runtime Identity Security for AI agents, machines, and humans, today announced that the Akeyless Identity Security Platform has achieved FedRAMP(R) Class D (High) Certification through its partnership with Second Front Systems (2F). The certification gives U.S. government agencies and all organizations operating under FedRAMP Class D equivalency a validated path to adopt Akeyless for securing credentials and machine identities, and governing AI-agent access to information systems and sensitive data. Akeyless is already trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, protecting 1 billion identity interactions a day across machines, applications, and emerging AI workloads. FedRAMP makes that proven identity security solution available to federal environments, including purpose-built AI agent safeguards to prevent credential abuse and stop rogue or unauthorized behavior. FedRAMP Class D is the highest Certification Class for cloud services handling the U.S. government's most sensitive unclassified data. The Akeyless platform has successfully completed the full FedRAMP certification process and is now available on the FedRAMP Marketplace under the 2F Game Warden listing. The certification also positions Akeyless to pursue GovRAMP certification through its Fast Track program, which lets providers reuse their FedRAMP documentation and audit to serve U.S. state, local, and tribal governments, and education organizations. "Federal agencies more than doubled their use of AI year over year, and are continuing to expand their AI capabilities," said Oded Hareven, CEO and Co-Founder of Akeyless. "As AI moves deeper into government systems, identity security can no longer stop at authentication. Agencies need to control both access and what autonomous systems are allowed to do after access is granted. FedRAMP Certification makes Akeyless available for sensitive federal environments so agencies can embrace AI without trading away control, auditability, or resilience." That rapid growth is adding pressure to an already complex identity security environment, as machine identities and autonomous agents gain greater access to sensitive systems and data. At the same time, shorter certificate lifecycles, including the move toward 47-day publicly trusted TLS certificates, are increasing the operational burden on security teams. These pressures are making stronger, more automated controls increasingly critical. Akeyless helps agencies respond with a unified identity security platform spanning secrets management, certificate lifecycle management and PKI, workload identity management, privileged access, and encryption key management. Akeyless SecretlessAI(R) keeps credentials out of agents' hands with short-lived, just-in-time access, while Agentic Runtime Authority controls what agents can do at runtime and blocks unauthorized actions before they can execute. Every action is tied to its originating request, giving agencies the audit trail federal oversight requires. Akeyless also automates certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, deployment, and revocation, helping agencies adapt to shorter certificate lifecycles without multiplying manual work. Akeyless's partnership with Second Front was instrumental in achieving FedRAMP Class D (High) Certification. Akeyless leveraged 2F Game Warden, a pre-accredited DevSecOps platform designed to accelerate the deployment of commercial software into government environments while providing inherited security controls and continuous monitoring. "With FedRAMP Class D Certification through 2F Game Warden, Akeyless can bring specialized identity security to the agencies that need it - fast and securely," said Nick Woodruff, General Manager, North America at Second Front Systems. "Our core purpose is to get proven technology to the mission faster and help our partner companies grow alongside the agencies they serve, and we know that access to Akeyless capabilities is going to be hugely impactful for the Federal Government." Register for the webinar Akeyless Brings AI Agent Identity Security to Federal Agencies to learn how federal teams can reduce credential risk and secure AI agent access. About Akeyless Akeyless provides Runtime Identity Security for AI agents, machines and humans. Trusted by Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises and protecting 1 billion identity interactions daily, its platform issues, enforces, and revokes authority at agentic scale - protecting enterprise systems and data from breaches involving compromised credentials and privilege abuse. Akeyless' AI-agent capabilities include SecretlessAI, which keeps credentials out of agents, and Runtime Authority, which enforces exactly what an agent is allowed to do at the moment of action, blocking unauthorized actions before they run. Learn more at akeyless.io. About Second Front Systems Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world's leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they're needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com. SOURCE Akeyless

The American Intelligence Corporation has achieved FedRAMP Class D (High) Certification through Second Front Systems' Game Warden platform in under 60 days, marking Second Front's fastest FedRAMP deployment. The certification was reached while American Intelligence remains pre-seed stage. The AI infrastructure company's platform enables federal agencies and defence industrial base to integrate legacy systems that were not designed to communicate with each other. The platform uses artificial intelligence to reduce integration programmes from multi-year efforts to days. The accelerated certification resulted from American Intelligence building security architecture into its platform from inception, whilst Second Front's Game Warden provided pre-accredited infrastructure for deployment and monitoring. The certification allows agencies to modernise their most sensitive unclassified systems rapidly.