Rahul Tyagi is Co-Founder of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the Palo Alto-based Autonomous Cyber Risk Management platform that processes over three billion signals daily. A Certified Ethical Hacker who graduated from Lovely Professional University in 2011, he co-founded the company at IIT Bombay in 2012 alongside Saket Modi and Vidit Baxi. He has spent over a decade pioneering cyber risk quantification - using FAIR model frameworks and MITRE ATT&CK integration to give Fortune 500 boards a dollar figure on their digital exposure. Featured in Fortune India's 40-under-40, he discovered vulnerabilities in Intel, Sony, HP, TED, and dozens more before pivoting from pen-testing to platform. His most recent chapter: leading Safe Security's CyberAGI vision after closing a $70M Series C in July 2025.
Saket Modi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the AI-native cyber risk management platform he started building in his final year of engineering in 2012. Based in Palo Alto, he has grown Safe Security from a bootstrapped IIT Bombay-incubated startup into a 1,300-person company with over $200M in funding — backed by Cisco's legendary John Chambers — protecting the digital infrastructure of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. His audacious goal: build CyberAGI, the definitive autonomous system of intelligence and action for the modern CISO.
Picus Security is the cybersecurity company behind the Picus Security Validation Platform - an Adversarial Exposure Validation system that continuously simulates real-world attacks against an organization's defenses to expose which ones actually work. Founded in 2013 by three Turkish mathematicians and now headquartered in San Francisco, Picus serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard and is the official Exposure Validation Partner of Juventus.
Safe Security is a Palo Alto-based cybersecurity company building an Agentic AI-native platform for cyber risk quantification (CRQ), third-party risk management (TPRM) and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM). Founded in 2012 in India as Lucideus, it now translates security posture into dollars-and-cents risk for enterprises like Google, Chevron, T-Mobile, Fidelity and IHG, and is pursuing what its founders call 'CyberAGI'.