Cybersecurity was under pressure even before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexities, the limitations of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This session from MIT Technology Review’s MTech AI conference explores why security must be reconsidered by putting it at the core of AI, not layered on after the fact.
about the speaker
Tariq Mustafa, Co-Founder, CEO & CTO, GC Cyber Security
Tariq Mustafa is the co-founder and CEO/CTO of two AI-powered cybersecurity companies: GCC Cyber Security, Inc. and its data compliance spinout, Chorology, Inc. A prolific inventor and internationally recognized authority in knowledge representation, inference calculus, and AI planning, Tariq has spent his career applying autonomously collaborative AI to solve complex, ultra-high-level challenges in the cybersecurity, data protection, and compliance industries – with deep expertise in the data classification, DLP, and DSPM industries. His groundbreaking innovations and numerous USPTO patents have earned him global recognition, including frequent invitations to deliver keynote addresses at prestigious international security conferences and forums.
At GCCybersecurity, Tariq designed the core AI algorithms powering the company’s fourth and fifth generation fully autonomous data leakage protection and exfiltration platforms – the most advanced platforms of their kind. Prior to founding GCCybersecurity and Chorology, he served as the founding CEO/CTO of NexTier Networks, a Silicon Valley provider of award-winning data leak prevention solutions. With over 20 years of technical leadership experience, Tariq has held senior roles at Symantec, DHL Airways IT, MCI WorldCom, EDS, Andes Networks, and Navis Networks, where he served as Principal Architect and built industry-leading security products leveraging next-generation security monitoring, event correlation, IDS/IPS, and SSL/IPSEC technologies.
Tariq holds several granted and pending patents with the USPTO and has authored numerous research publications on Information and Data Security, Computer and Network Security, Software Architecture, Database Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence. A recipient of the prestigious Rotary International Scholarship for doctoral studies in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), Tariq also holds a master’s degree in Engineering and Computer Science from USC and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology.
