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Dan Guido

Co-founder & CEO, Trail of Bits

Dan Guido is CEO and co-founder of Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity firm focused on security research and software assurance for critical technology. Since 2012, he has grown the company to more than 140 engineers specializing in cryptography, AI, and blockchain security. Trail of Bits was a finalist in DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge and the AI Cyber Challenge, and in 2023 spun out iVerify, a mobile security tool for detecting spyware such as Pegasus. Dan advises startups, government, and policymakers on technology and cybersecurity, serves on the boards of three startups, and has contributed to policy work with the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, and Harvard. He founded Empire Hacking, a community of 1,800+ NYC cybersecurity experts, and created Algo VPN, which has 28,000+ GitHub stars. He holds a CS degree from NYU Tandon, is enrolled in Harvard Business School's OPM program, and was inducted into CISA's SFS Hall of Fame in 2021. Earlier, he was NYU's founding Hacker in Residence, where he helped build its cybersecurity program and taught more than 300 students.

Dan Guido

Sessions / 2026 / 1 talk

  • How we made Trail of Bits AI-Native (so far)

    [2026 - Day 3 - AI Security & Safety] Giving employees AI tools doesn't make a company AI native. Trail of Bits founder and CEO Dan Guido explains the difference — and the operating system his 150-person security firm built to actually get there. Dan covers the psychological biases that make experts resist AI, the system Trail of Bits built to overcome them, and the results: a jump from 15 to 200 bugs found per week on some engagements. He also gets into what AI-discoverable vulnerabilities mean for security as an industry, and why the real bottleneck has shifted from finding bugs to judging which ones actually matter.

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