Jacob Rideout is the Chief Technology Officer of HiddenLayer, a cybersecurity start-up dedicated to preventing adversarial machine learning attacks. He has over a decade of experience leading engineering, product management, threat research, and data science teams, with a focus on security products at organizations such as Salesforce and Agari. Jacob has successfully brought multiple cutting-edge products to market, overseen acquisition transitions, collaborated with technical working groups at M3AAWG, ETIS, IETF, and MITRE, and managed research patents. Jacob lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife Sarah and son Solomon.
HiddenLayer, a Gartner recognized Cool Vendor for AI Security, is the leading provider of Security for AI. Its security platform helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products. HiddenLayer is the only company to offer turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded by a team with deep roots in security and ML, HiddenLayer aims to protect enterprise’s AI from inference, bypass, extraction attacks, and model theft. The company is backed by a group of strategic investors, including M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.
