For nearly three decades, Karim has been a leading figure in the field of attacker counterintelligence and malicious actor infiltration research. His expertise in developing innovative methods for security teams to clandestinely monitor nation-state level threats and anticipate attacks before they occur has earned him global recognition across the private sector and government.

Before founding Vigilocity, Karim was the Founder, CEO, and Executive Chairman of Prevailion, a company responsible for creating the world’s first continuous compromise monitoring and security validation platform for supply-chain ecosystems. This technology not only revolutionized attacker surveillance but also introduced a revolutionary actuarial matrix for cyber insurance and sophisticated training data sets for machine learning and artificial intelligence models.

Prior to Prevailion, Karim established Unveillance, a pioneer in advanced threat actor attribution and the first cloud-based data leak intelligence platform. In 2012, Karim successfully exited Unveillance through acquisition by Mandiant, where he was then appointed as the company’s new director of intelligence. During his tenure at Mandiant, Karim played a pivotal role in the well-known APT1 report released in 2013, which conclusively linked the People’s Liberation Army of China to widespread cyber espionage activity against US interests. Mandiant was later acquired by FireEye.