Meet the new CEO of Awake Security. : Rahul Kashyap, chief technology officer of Cylance, has left the cybersecurity firm to join Awake Security as CEO. Cylance, founded in 2012, is often talked about as a likely candidate for an initial public offering in the next year or so. Four-year-old Awake, on the other hand, is at a much earlier stage of development, having received its first mentions in the business press only a year ago. (The startup had been in so-called stealth mode prior.)