Interview with Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of SecurityScorecard

August 19, 2020

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Welcome to Innovating with Scott Amyx. I’m your host Scott. Today I am joined by Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and CEO of SecurityScorecard, the leading security rating company, which is used by hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies. SecurityScorecard has raised a total of $112.2M in funding.

Previously, he was a Head of Security and Compliance reponsible for all aspects of security at the Gilt Groupe companies (Gilt, Gilt JP, Gilt City, Gilt Taste, Jetsetter) building a team from scratch when he joined to a team serving over 1300 people, recognized in the news media, with no vulnerabilities exploited. Before that, Aleksandr Yampolskiy has worked at Goldman Sachs, Oracle, Microsoft in various capacities. He has been a lead technologist for SSO, entitlement, IDM, and identity federation solutions. Aleksandr Yampolskiy has advised various businesses on best practices for integrating security into their products, while complying with internal/external policies and regulations. Aleksandr has been cited in NY Times, Yale Scientific, and published half a dozen articles in top security conferences. In 2006, he was awarded the Best Paper Award in Public Key Cryptography conference for discovering the most efficient Verifiable Random Function to-date. He has a B.A. in Mathematics/Computer Science from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses – providing a true 360 degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees and vendors.

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