This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 14, 2026
“When high-trust individuals are compromised, the blast radius reaches well beyond them to their companies, partners, and networks,” said Raman Khanna, Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital (DTC), in a blog post last year. “This is why we backed founder and CEO Matt Polak and his team at VanishID.”
Since 2012, DTC invested more than $1.8B in teams building the technologies the world runs on. Nine of those companies have gone public. 85+ have been acquired by companies including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, and VMWare.
“Our investment in the company is rooted in a simple thesis: individual exposure can lead to organizational-level compromise,” Khanna, who was previously CIO at Stanford University, added. “We believe this flavor of cybersecurity – human risk intelligence – will become a standard part of the modern cybersecurity stack. CISOs will need not just endpoint detection and network telemetry, but situational awareness around who in their organization is most exposed and how to defend for it.”
VanishID uses automated and agentic systems to discover and, in some cases, remediate exploitable personally identifiable information available on the web, according to DTC. They can then transform that exposure into actionable insights at the organizational level, helping both individuals and CISOs better understand and mitigate their “human attack surface” risks in real time.
In a new video on the award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel, Polak explains how VanishID is essentially an “Army of agents that never sleeps,” at a time when you (CISOs and cybersecurity teams) need AI to fight AI threats. VanishID provides agentic AI-powered solutions for digital executive protection, workforce protection, family office protection, and public sector protection.
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