Michael Bargury — CEO
🟥 We are hiring the best software engineers and security researchers. Join us if you’d like to learn 10x more by believing in yourself and your teammates— tackling really challenging problems at the scale of the largest enterprises in the world. Michael Bargury is a hacker, builder and a cybersecurity practitioner. He demonstrated the first real-world external attack on an enterprise AI system targeting Microsoft Copilot, and the first end-to-end external hijacking attacks targeting every flagship AI assistant and agent. He revealed novel attack vectors and established countermeasures through security standards in LLMs, agentic AI, cloud and application security. He is the co-founder and CTO of Zenity – securing AI agents everywhere. He is a core contributor to MITRE Atlas, OWASP GenAI and OWASP LCNC. Writes a column on DarkReading, and regularly delivers research, tools and talks at top conferences including BlackHat and DEFCON.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert specializing in AI security and enterprise solutions.
Experience: 16 yrs
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Ai Security
Career Highlights
- Pioneered real-world attacks on enterprise AI systems.
- Co-founder of a leading AI security firm.
- Core contributor to major cybersecurity initiatives.
Work Experience
OWASP® Foundation
AIVSS Project Co-leader (11 mos)
OWASP LCNC Top 10 Project Leader (4 yrs 9 mos)
Dark Reading
Columnist (4 yrs 1 mo)
Zenity
Co-Founder & CTO (5 yrs 1 mo)
Microsoft
Senior Architect, Azure Security CTO Office (3 yrs)
Data Scientist, Azure Security (1 yr 6 mos)
Product Manager, Azure Security (1 yr 5 mos)
Israel Defense Forces
Data Analyst (5 yrs)
Education
Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Tel Aviv University