Meet The Founders
Alan Lefort
Co-Founder & CEO
Alan Lefort is a cybersecurity leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling security products used by Fortune 500 companies. He previously led product and business units at Proofpoint, McAfee, and Intel Security, where he focused on advanced threat protection, insider risk, and behavioral analytics. At Intel, he helped drive product strategy across global markets, leading teams in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. Now as CEO of StrongestLayer, Alan is leveraging that deep enterprise experience to stop AI-powered phishing attacks before they reach users—redefining email security for the AI era.
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Muhammad Rizwan
Co-Founder & CTO
Muhammad Rizwan is the Co‑Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at StrongestLayer. With a background that includes innovative detection work at FireEye MVX, Rizwan leads the development of LLM-powered, real-time threat detection systems—designed to defend organizations against advanced AI-generated phishing, malware, and other evolving attack methods
Joshua Bass
Co-Founder & CPO
Joshua Bass is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at StrongestLayer, where he leads product strategy and design. He brings deep experience from Google, Mandiant, FireEye, and Proofpoint, having built advanced threat detection systems used by some of the world’s most targeted organizations. At StrongestLayer, Joshua is focused on redefining email security with AI-powered reasoning that stops modern phishing threats others mis
Why We Built StrongestLayer
The problem: While criminals weaponized AI for offense, cybersecurity was still fighting with yesterday's tools. Rules, signatures, and behavioral analysis couldn't keep up with AI that generates never-before-seen attacks.
Our breakthrough: Our solution thinks like expert security researchers - analyzing intent, correlating global threat intelligence, and predicting campaigns weeks before they launch. Finally, AI powerful enough to outsmart criminal AI.
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