How to protect your data when nothing is secure

Aleksandr Yampolskiy | TEDxFoggyBottom

Cybersecurity expert Aleksandr Yampolskiy reveals how interconnected devices often hide vulnerabilities that leave us exposed to global hacking threats. Instead of focusing on impossible prevention, Yampolskiy advocates for building digital resilience and adopting proactive safety habits. By questioning our blind trust in technology, we can spark the change needed to make our digital world safer.

Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Security Scorecard, is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. Since Security Scorecard's inception in 2014, he has led the company with a vision to create a new language for measuring and communicating risk.

Security Scorecard is now one of the world's most trusted cybersecurity brands, with tens of thousands of customers —including half of the Fortune 100 and nine of the top U.S. banks-and over 600 employees. The company has earned the Gartner Peer Insight Customers' Choice award and been named a Leader in the Forrester New Wave.

In 2021, Yampolskiy was named E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 New York Award winner and Cyber Defense Magazine's CEO of the Year. Before founding the Security Scorecard, Yampolskiy was a CTO at Blog TalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast-hosting platform, where he scaled its technology to over 30 M visitors each month. He was also a CISO at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, fraud, secure application development, and PCI compliance.

Yampolskiy has led security teams at Goldman Sachs and Oracle, among other companies, where he built authentication and entitlement infrastructure for trading. Alex has published numerous articles, won the Public Key Cryptography Conference Test of Time Award for his verifiable random function invention, holds numerous patents, and is the author of the published book "The Perfect Scorecard: Getting an 'A' in Cybersecurity from Your Board of Directors". He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

Learn More about Aleksandr’s work here.