Our Story, Mission,
and Dedicated Team

Our passionate team believes in protecting people from those who would use their information against them.

The story behind VanishID

Your data trail has become your greatest vulnerability. Social engineers don’t need to break through firewalls they simply use your own information against you.

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Our Solution

VanishID systematically reduces the digital footprint of executives, board members, employees, and their families—limiting their visibility to threat actors. We control what attackers can find, removing the raw material they need to craft convincing attacks.

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Our Approach

We think like hackers to defend against them. Our founders recognized that combating social engineering requires understanding how attackers gather and weaponize information—then closing those vulnerabilities instead of exploiting them.

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Our Team

We’ve built a team singularly focused on protecting people from information exploitation. Every member brings expertise in threat intelligence, digital privacy, and security operations—united by one conviction: the most effective security doesn’t require constant vigilance. It requires removing the data that makes people targets.

VanishID: Reducing your attack surface by controlling your data footprint.

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VanishID: Reducing your attack surface by controlling your data footprint.

Matt Polak

Chief Executive Officer

Matt is the Founder & CEO of VanishID, a venture-backed security company focused on Digital Executive Protection. With 25 years of experience at the intersection of intelligence, strategy, investing, and entrepreneurship, Matt brings a unique perspective to protecting high-profile executives from digital threats.

Matt has founded three companies and built his career across the intelligence community, investment banking, strategy consulting, private equity, and cybersecurity. This diverse background—spanning both offensive intelligence gathering and defensive security operations—gives him insight into how threat actors target executives and how to effectively protect them.

Matt holds dual MBAs from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Escuela de Negocios de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. He received his BA in International Affairs from James Madison University and serves as a Trustee of St. Albans School.