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Behind HiddenLayer

Born on the front lines — protecting the bleeding edge

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Our Story

The HiddenLayer team was born out of a real-world adversarial machine learning attack in 2019.

Tito, Jim, and Tanner came face to face with an adversarial machine learning attack at Cylance, an AI company that revolutionized the anti-virus industry by leveraging deep learning to prevent malware attacks. At the time, Tito was was leading Threat Research for Cylance.

Attackers had exploited Cylance’s Windows executable ML model using an inference attack, exposing its weaknesses and allowing them to produce binary files that could successfully evade detection and infect every Cylance customer.

During the response and recovery effort, HiddenLayer’s founders realized the inherent weaknesses in AI/ML would be the next threat landscape evolution, targeting the fastest growing, most important, and now most vulnerable technology the world has ever seen.

Formed from the best data science and threat research talent on the planet, we’re here to protect your most important technology, artificial intelligence.

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Elegant Code, Not Complexity

Other companies offer security through invasive consulting or bolting on complexity and expense. We believe that dedicated ML security should be accessible to any organization that needs it.

Protect your ML from inference, bypass, extraction attacks, and model theft while analyzing the behavior of your in-production model with a cloud-based software solution and light-touch consulting.

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Strategic Partners

HiddenLayer has developed partnerships with innovative big data organizations like Databricks and leaders in security standards like MITRE. HiddenLayer was also recognized as a cutting-edge AI startup as part of the NVIDIA Inception Program.

We’re proud to be part of these partnerships and programs, and grateful for the opportunities, thought leadership, and resources they provide to accelerate our mission.

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The HiddenLayer Team

Leadership

As the security leaders within innovative AI/ML organizations, we saw firsthand how typical security solutions failed to provide adequate defense, detection, and response to emerging adversarial AI attacks. Fixing that is our motivation.

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August 23, 2022

Christopher "Tito" Sestito

Co-founder & CEO
Data Scientist, Threat Researcher, Reverse Engineer
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August 24, 2022

Tanner Burns

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Machine Learning Engineer, Automation Specialist, Published Researcher
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August 30, 2022

Jim Ballard

Co-founder & CTO
Data Science Security Specialist, Reverse Engineer, Cloud Architect
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August 31, 2022

Gabe Deale

VP of Operations
International Business Leader, Operations Specialist, Sales Engineer
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October 12, 2022

Abigail Maines

Chief Revenue Officer
Business Builder, Channel Creator, Equity Champion
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October 12, 2022

Hiep Dang

VP of Product
Cybersecurity Researcher, Product Manager, Strategic Executor
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October 26, 2022

David Beveridge

Vice President of Engineering
Security Researcher, Software Architect/Engineer, Research Engineering
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November 2, 2022

Andrew Davis

Director of Data Science
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Our Synaptic Adversarial Intelligence (SAI) Team

Through a blend of cybersecurity expertise and the latest in AI/ML thinking, our SAI team constantly keeps the HiddenLayer platform one step ahead of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures.

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Our Advisors

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November 18, 2022
Austin Hagerty
Director, Data & AI — Microsoft
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November 19, 2022
Howard Levenson
Former GM, Vice President – Databricks
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November 20, 2022
Malcolm Harkins
Chief Security & Trust Officer — Epiphany Systems
Board Member, Advisor, Mentor / Coach – Protect to Enable Advisor – Black Cloak
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November 21, 2022
Josh Lemos
Head of Product Security — Square
VP of Security Engineering, Research, and Intelligence — Cylance
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November 22, 2022
John Giacomini
SVP Sales — Netskope
Chief Revenue Officer — Agari
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November 23, 2022
Matt Wolff
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist — Obsidian Security
Chief Data Scientist — Cylance
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November 24, 2022
Tom Pace
Co-Founder and CEO NetRise
Cylance, Blackberry, Department of Energy, USMC
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November 25, 2022
Travis Ryan
VP of Engineering — HelpSystems
VP of Engineering — Cylance
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November 26, 2022
Chris Scanlan
President and Chief Commercial Officer - ExtraHop
President of Americas – Check Point Software
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November 27, 2022
Ryan Permeh
Operating Partner – SYN Ventures
Chief Security Architect & SVP – BlackBerry
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November 28, 2022
Stephan Chenette
Co-Founder and CTO — AttackIQ
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November 29, 2022
Scott Nicholson
Chief Data Scientist — Poynt
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November 30, 2022
Greg Martin
Founder and CEO — Ghost, JASK, Anomali
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December 1, 2022
Jacob Rideout
Chief Architect — Salesforce
Chief Technology Architect — Agari

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We were founded and funded by experts who pioneered ML security in the industries and enterprises that basically invented this stuff. If you’re interested in joining the team and “going hidden,” see our current job opportunity listings here.

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HiddenLayer, a Gartner recognized AI Application Security company, is a provider of security solutions for machine learning algorithms, models and the data that power them. With a first-of-its-kind, noninvasive software approach to observing and securing ML, HiddenLayer is helping to protect the world’s most valuable technologies.

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