# Anderson Lunsford

> Anderson "Andy" Lunsford is the CEO and co-founder of BreachRx, a San Francisco cybersecurity software company that coordinates the legal, security, communications, and executive work surrounding a cyber incident. A lawyer by training, he spent 15 years in privacy law and large-scale commercial litigation before building software around the recurring operational failures he had observed after breaches. BreachRx raised a $15 million Series A in May 2025 and launched the agentic-AI Rex Platform in June 2026.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at BreachRx
- **Organizations:** BreachRx, Beacon Group, LLC, The Sedona Conference, Walmart
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA; honors thesis on the right to privacy, Washington and Lee University, JD, University of Arkansas, MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads BreachRx, a cybersecurity incident response management software company., Led BreachRx through a $15 million Series A in May 2025 after two consecutive years of more than 3x annual recurring revenue growth., Built BreachRx to more than 100 customers by May 2025, including publicly traded and Fortune 500 companies.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Worked as a law clerk for Judge Michael H. Mashburn in Arkansas's Fourth Judicial District.
- **2007** — Worked in compliance at Walmart.
- **2007-2018** — Served as Director and General Counsel at Beacon Group, working in privacy law and large-scale commercial litigation.
- **2017** — Co-founded BreachRx; the company was founded in January 2017.
- **2019** — Presented BreachRx at FinovateSpring and FinovateFall as a B2B platform for tailored, cross-functional breach response.
- **2022** — Named as an inventor on U.S. Patent 11,244,045 for breach response data management.
- **2023** — BreachRx publicly launched Cyber RegScout, an automated regulatory analysis tool.
- **2024** — Published an argument in Dark Reading for centralized cyber-incident reporting; named as an inventor on U.S. Patent 12,099,600.
- **2025** — BreachRx closed an oversubscribed $15 million Series A led by Ballistic Ventures, bringing reported total funding to more than $23 million.
- **2026** — BreachRx launched the Rex Platform, an agentic-AI incident command center for coordinating enterprise cyber response.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads BreachRx, a cybersecurity incident response management software company.
- Led BreachRx through a $15 million Series A in May 2025 after two consecutive years of more than 3x annual recurring revenue growth.
- Built BreachRx to more than 100 customers by May 2025, including publicly traded and Fortune 500 companies.
- Named as an inventor on multiple U.S. patents concerning breach response data management, including patents 11,244,045, 12,099,600, and 12,488,098.
- Contributed through The Sedona Conference to best-practice work involving attorney-client privilege in cybersecurity incident response.
- Helped introduce Cybersecurity Incident Response Management as a distinct enterprise software category.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — BreachRx launched the Rex Platform, an agentic-AI cyber incident command center designed to coordinate overlapping incidents and cross-functional response.
- **2026-05** — A new BreachRx patent application for breach response data management was published with Lunsford among the inventors.
- **2026-04** — Wharton Magazine featured BreachRx in its Spring/Summer 2026 Watchlist.
- **2025-11** — Lunsford served as a dialogue leader for The Sedona Conference Working Group 11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability.
- **2025-05** — BreachRx closed a $15 million Series A led by Ballistic Ventures; Kevin Mandia joined the board and Nicole Perlroth became a board observer.

## Links

- Website: https://www.breachrx.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andersonlunsford/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/breachrx
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbMpM8lXEQ

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Last updated: 2026-08-17