Dr Mikko S. Niemelä

I've spent my career understanding how attackers think and operate. This led me to found Silverskin, where we tested organizations' security through realistic cyberattacks. I eventually sold my stake to a government-owned defense contractor.

In 2015, I established Cyber Intelligence House in Singapore. We track digital exposure across the dark web, deep web, and data breaches. We've supported law enforcement and defense agencies, and now focus on providing threat intelligence to Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs).

Along the way, I've advised INTERPOL, NATO, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on darknet investigations and AI in battlefield. I've helped the insurance industry quantify cyber risk and develop objective evaluation processes for policy underwriting.

I also developed the Cyber Exposure Index, which tracks public companies' cyber exposure to provide industry benchmarks. This initiative helps organizations understand that exposure is universal and that visibility is critical.

At Cyber Intelligence House, I'm currently leading the enhancement of our specialized darkweb, deepweb, malware and external cyber exposure intelligence repositories into vector-based knowledge systems. The vectorization of these specialized intelligence repositories will enable security decision-makers to detect complex threat patterns and causal relationships that traditional analysis has missed.

I've also built SecurityBench.ai, a testing framework designed to validate AI chatbot systems before deployment by assessing LLM pipelines for vulnerabilities including prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data exfiltration.