Chris "Tito" Sestito, CEO Co-Founder, HiddenLayer

Welcome to AI in the Real World! In this episode, Foundation Capital Partner Sid Trivedi speaks to Chris "Tito" Sestito, the co-founder and CEO of HiddenLayer. HiddenLayer is a cybersecurity platform that is purpose-built for AI systems.

Two co-founders of HiddenLayer, RSA 2023's Most Innovative Startup, join the; @TheDe-FUDMePodcast; to share their approach to secure Large Language Models (LLMs).; Chris "Tito" Sestito, CEO & Co-Founder, shares his journey, from being a victim of an AI attack at Cylance to founding HiddenLayer, which recently raised $50 million in a Series A funding round. He also shares the journeys of typical enterprises, who discover they have many more LLMs running across their tech stack and data supply chain than they originally thought. Then, Tanner Burns, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, joins to demonstrate HiddenLayer's capabilities, focusing on its top 2 usecases for securing LLMs.

In this episode of Redefining CyberSecurity, host Sean Martin engages in a thought-provoking conversation with guest Malcolm Harkins about the challenges and failures of the CISO role. They discuss the importance of setting clear design goals and standards to determine success or failure. The conversation delves into risk management and the complexities of goal-setting, highlighting the role of integrity in the CISO's decision-making process.

Chris Sestito, CEO and Co-founder of AI security vendor, HiddenLayer, joined Oliver Legg; for a re-run following our episode at last year's BlackHat.; Why? Because HiddenLayer have gone from strength to strength. Winning the 2023 RSA Sandbox, a major Microsoft announcement and being named the ML Security Leader by CB Insights have all aided with CISO’s permission to buy and helped land major enterprise wins this past year.