global patents
AI/ML security, identity, cryptography, fraud, and platforms
AJIT GADDAM
Ajit Gaddam
Engineer, executive, and inventor working across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, identity, and fraud.I currently lead Fraud, AI & Trust Platforms at HealthEquity. Before that, I built security and fraud systems at Wells Fargo, Visa, Progressive, a startup of my own, and Google.
This is my personal index: work, inventions, writing, and small things I am building outside the job.
BUILD SIGNAL
CURRENTLY
Fraud, AI & Trust Platforms
Working on identity, adaptive fraud defense, and what responsible authority should look like when AI systems can take action—not only make suggestions.
- AT
- HealthEquity
- ALSO
- Inventing, writing, advising, and building ajit.ai
ACTIVE FIELD · TRUSTVisa → Wells Fargo → HealthEquityZero trust to accountable AI systems
published books
Hadoop in Action and Learning Hadoop Security
years building
research, startups, large-scale products, and technical leadership
writing in public
security, systems, identity, data, and the changing web
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A career spent close to consequential systems.
- 01CMU
- 02Google
- 03SkunkLabs
- 04Progressive
- 05Visa
- 06Wells Fargo
- 07HealthEquity
SELECTED WRITING
Notes from the work.
Security
Why Biometric Security CANNOT secure a Corporate Environment
Biometric Security is being billed as the next savior of personal and corporate security, a superior solution to our Identity and Access management problems. However, the fact is that if someone steals your Biometric ID, it remains stolen for life.
Security
Indicators of Compromise List and Recommended Security Measures
Unlike loss of a physical device, if an attacker breaks into your corporate network, you still have your data after they steal it. It is more important that ever to detect if your company has been broken into by a hacker…
Application Security
The need for Secure Coding in an Enterprise
We live in a global village of interconnected systems that share data and other services. Such an environment calls for heightened awareness around application security. Enterprises should establish a strong application…
Cloud
Cloud Security Guidance
This post is a summary of the guidance provided in version 3 of the Cloud Security Alliance document Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing v3.0. The CSA guidance remains one of the best around…
IN PUBLIC
Selected work with a source attached.
A few independently verifiable points from a much larger body of work.
CASE STUDYPATENTTALKPUBLIC SERVICE
90% drop in voice fraud without adding customer friction
Pindrop × HealthEquity
Proactive Defense of Untrustworthy Machine Learning System
US 12,361,281 B2
Behavioral biometrics against bots and account-takeover attacks
USENIX Enigma
Chair, National Technical Information Service Advisory Board
U.S. Department of Commerce