Karim Hijazi // Founder & CEO

Karim has been at the forefront of attacker counterintelligence and malicious actor infiltration research for nearly three decades. He is globally known for developing disruptive ways for security teams, for both the private sector and government, to clandestinely monitor nation-state level threats and anticipate attacks before they happen.

Karim is also presently the Founder and CEO of Vigilocity, the creator of a next generation risk prevention and removal platform, Mythic©. Vigilocity can identify malicious infrastructure and swiftly take it down before it can be used as a weapon. This proactive approach not only stops attacks before they occur but also secures critical systems and infrastructure from emerging threats. Not only has the technology ushered in a next generation of attacker surveillance, but has also invented a revolutionary actuarial matrix for cyber insurance as well as sophisticated training data sets for machine learning and artificial intelligence models.

Karim was also the Founder and CEO of Unveillance, an early pioneer in advanced threat actor attribution and the first cloud-based data leak intelligence platform. Karim successfully exited Unveillance in 2012 with an acquisition by Mandiant, and he was then appointed as Mandiant’s new director of intelligence. While at Mandiant, Karim played a pivotal role in that company’s well-known APT1 report released in 2013, which definitively linked the People’s Liberation Army of China to widespread cyber espionage activity against US interests. Mandiant was acquired by FireEye soon after.

During the hacktivist heydays of the early 2010s, Karim engaged in a well-documented battle with the Anonymous offshoot “LulzSec,” after the group compromised an InfraGard database. Karim’s confrontation with the group was featured in Parmy Olson’s book, “We Are Anonymous,” as well as national media such as CNN and CNET. During the Arab Spring, Karim also served as a key contributor, along with Palantir, to the Cyber Security Forum Initiative’s “Project Cyber Dawn Libya,” which provided the first in-depth look at Libyan cyber warfare capabilities and defenses. CSFI’s membership includes military officials, academics and business leaders from the US and around the world.

Karim is an avid public speaker and a widely coveted thought leader. Over the years, Karim has served as a renowned cybersecurity and intelligence subject matter expert and key industry source for many prominent news outlets, including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Forbes, CyberScoop, AXIOS, Ars Technica and many more. He has also been a highly sought after keynote speaker for both various public conferences and private events.