About us
Spherical Defense was founded by Dishant Shah and Jack Hopkins with a vision to secure the world’s applications, by building a product to protect against attacks on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Dishant had uncovered major vulnerabilities in banks’ IT systems during his MSc in Information Security at University College London, while Jack was attempting to teach computers to learn poetry as part of his masters in computational linguistics at Cambridge.
The two met at met at an entrepreneurship summit in London, and started working on a tool that could apply deep learning techniques to define normal API traffic, flagging hacks as deviations from the baseline. Spherical Defense was founded, and the company was quickly selected by GCHQ to join its prestigious Accelerator Programme.
Advisory Board
Jon Reynolds
CEO of SwiftKey
Michael Pennington
Founder of Gumtree
Gianluca Stringhini
Director of Secure Systems Lab - Boston University
George Danezis
Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering - UCL
Matthew Ravden
Partner at Zeitgeist Consultancy
Terry Lyons
Wallis Professor of Mathematics - Oxford
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