Alex Polyakov

Co-Founder

Tel Aviv, Israel4 yrs 4 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a 100+ cybersecurity team for two decades.
Co-founded an award-winning AI-driven AppSec vendor.
Spoke at 100+ global technology conferences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and AI expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai Red TeamingCybersecurityRed TeamingPublic Speaking

Other Skills

AI SafetyAdversa AILLM SecurityGenAI SecurityAI SecurityArtificial Intelligence (AI)EntrepreneurshipInformation Security ManagementVulnerability AssessmentInformation SecurityProject ManagementDigital MarketingNetwork SecuritySecurity AuditsPCI DSS

About

Throughout 20 years in tech, I led a 100+ cybersecurity team, consulted trillion-dollar enterprises, and co-founded one of the first AI-driven AppSec vendors (3x Gartner, 40+ awards, including SC Magazine ‘Startup of the Year’). Spoke at BlackHat (4x), RSA (4x), and 100+ similar events. Co-invented a new type of vulnerability — SSRF. Contributed to every major cybersecurity and business media including WSJ, Bloomberg, WIRED, TechCrunch, Darkreading. Building Adversa AI, an AI security platform uncovering vulnerabilities before real adversaries do. We help Fortune 500 companies and unicorn startups and the biggest solution providers ensure compliance and resilience across their AI apps, agents, chatbots, and everything in between. I break AI to make it safer. Why? Because I’ve always explored the limits.

Experience

Coalition for secure ai

Project Governing Board Member

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

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Ieee standards association | ieee sa

2 roles

Vice Chair, Cyber for AI Group at Cyber for Next Gen Connectivity Systems [Standards Association]

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

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Chair, Sub-committee - IEEE Committee for "Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems"

Aug 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Trying to do something good for Cybersecurity of the future systems from AI to Quantum

Red Teaming

Adversa ai

Co-Founder, CTO

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Tel Aviv District, Israel

AI Red Teaming Pioneers. Fortune 500 companies, unicorn AI startups, and top solution providers in US, Europe and Asia choose us for the most complete AI risk coverage.

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Investor

Sep 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel · Remote

Experienced pre-IPO and IPO investor with proven proficiency in managing portfolios.
Drove growth with personal portfolio yielding 2.2x and fund portfolio delivering 3x returns within two years.
Key investments span across:
Cybersecurity (Crowdstrike, Ping Identity, Fastly)
Data/AI (Datadog, Elastic, Pagerduty, Zoominfo)
Biotechnology (Beyond Meat, Gingko Biosciences, Compass Pathways, Livongo Health, Beam Therapeutics).

AI SafetyRed TeamingPublic Speaking

Forbes technology council

Official member

Oct 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

Increasing awareness on AI and Cybersecurity future

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Public speaker, panelist, moderator

Professional Speaker, Keynote, Moderator, Committee Member

Jan 2008 – Present · 18 yrs 3 mos

Speaker, Keynote, Moderator and Program Committee member at 100+ technology conferences about AI and Cybersecurity in 30+ countries.
Topics include:
AI / Secure AI / Trusted AI
Cybersecurity / Application Security
Next Generation Security
RSA, 30k+ visitors (USA, Netherlands, China, Singapore) (4 times)
BlackHat 20k+ visitors(USA,Netherlands, Singapore) (4 times)
HITB 10k+ visitors (Netherlands, UAE, Malaysia) (6 times)
DeepLearningWorld (Germany) (3 times)
MLConference (Singapore, Germany) (3 times)
HackerHalted (USA)(2 times)
Confidence (Poland) (2 times)
Deepsec (Vienna)(2 times)
Troopers (Germany)(2 times)
POC (Korea)
ITWEB (South Africa)
Hacktivity (Hungary)
InfoSecurity Kuwait, (Kuwait)
AusCERT (Australia)
T2.fi (Finland)
HashDays

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Various companies

Cybersecurity Entrepreneur

Aug 2006 – Jul 2019 · 12 yrs 11 mos

2006 – 2009: Founder, Chief Researcher. Vulnerability research group
o Task: Build First in the country vulnerability research group from scratch
o Achievement: Reported 300+ 0-day vulnerabilities in IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, HP and other vendors
2009 – 2013: intern, Principal Consultant, VP Services, CTO. Cybersecurity consulting company
o Task: Building and leading a team of 100+ Cybersecurity experts covering Research, Assessment and Advisory and practices
o Achievement: 100+ Consulting engagements from startups to 1trillion$ companies, started new lines of business such as PCI DSS/PA-DSS assessment, Application security testing, SCADA Security ERP Security, etc.
2011 – 2013: Co-Founder, CMO, Board Chairman. Technical Cybersecurity conference
o Task: Program committee and Marketing
o Achievement: Rated as top 10 security events by SC Magazine and Security Vacation Club, sponsored by Qualcomm, Intel, Nokia, Qualys etc. Speakers from 40+ countries
2014 – 2019: co-Founder, CTO. Application security startup
o Taks: From 0 to hero without external funding
o Achievements: Second largest ERP Resilience vendor, Gartner MQ in Application Security, invented a new area on Gartner Hype Cycle, 40+ industry awards, including SC Magazine Rookie Company of the year