Ankur Modi
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At 17yrs Ankur left India to pursue studies. 4 countries later, at 26, he left Microsoft to start an AI based cybersecurity company. Through the 10 years, he’s been a volunteer, mentor, journalist, speaker and founder.
Ankur led the company’s effort to analyze the biggest public metadata collection of data breaches (over 10,000 breaches) representing over 7.2 billion breached records. This led to an unprecedented understanding of the role of insiders and human error in data breaches over the last 10 years globally.
Under his leadership, the company has (within 12 months),
# Obtained 3 cyber security patents
# Raised $1.2m in Funding
# Launched in financial services and has analyzed 200 million human actions for more than 10000 people
# Partnered with Microsoft, Amazon & Lockheed Martin’s Virtual Tech cluster on Cyber-security
# Featured with Deepmind and Darktrace for Enterprise Cyber Security
Education
– Masters and Bachelors in Smart Systems and Machine Learning, Germany
– Certificate in Psychology, University of Oxford
– Certification in Business Financials, Microsoft
