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CyberBytes Podcast with Matt Polak

CyberBytes Podcast

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In this episode of CyberBytes: The Podcast, Joseph Cooper was joined by Matt Polak, Founder and CEO of VanishID.

VanishID is revolutionizing how organizations defend against social engineering by proactively identifying and removing the publicly available personal information that threat actors use to launch targeted attacks.

Joe and Matt explored the evolving landscape of human-centered cyber threats, how attackers leverage open-source intelligence (OSINT), and how VanishID’s unique privacy-by-design platform disrupts the reconnaissance stage of the attack lifecycle. Matt also shared his journey from national security to launching VanishID, and what’s next in the fight against socially engineered cybercrime.

VanishID was founded in 2019 on a simple but urgent observation: enterprise security had become extraordinarily sophisticated at protecting systems, and almost entirely blind to protecting the people behind them. The company’s continuous, comprehensive, and turnkey delivery combines agentic AI with OSINT expertise to monitor, remove, and mitigate digital exposure across the external identity layer outside the perimeter, requiring zero effort from security teams or the people they protect.
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VanishID was founded in 2019 on a simple but urgent observation: enterprise security had become extraordinarily sophisticated at protecting systems, and almost entirely blind to protecting the people behind them. The company’s continuous, comprehensive, and turnkey delivery combines agentic AI with OSINT expertise to monitor, remove, and mitigate digital exposure across the external identity layer outside the perimeter, requiring zero effort from security teams or the people they protect.

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