Our Story

We Built ShadowGuard Because We Lived the Problem

Founded by enterprise security veterans who spent years fighting unauthorized devices on the front lines, ShadowGuard was born from necessity — and obsession with getting it right.

Our Mission

ShadowGuard exists to give every organization complete, continuous visibility into its true attack surface — including the devices and applications that IT never approved and security never knew existed.

Shadow IT is no longer a minor compliance nuisance. In 2024, industry analysts estimate that 35–40% of enterprise technology spend happens outside sanctioned IT channels. Every unauthorized device is a potential breach vector. Every unmanaged application is a data exfiltration risk. We built ShadowGuard to close that gap, permanently.

Our platform combines continuous network discovery, AI-driven risk classification, and automated remediation workflows so security teams can act in minutes — not weeks — when unauthorized assets appear on their networks.

What We Stand For

Visibility First

You cannot protect what you cannot see. Every product decision starts with maximizing discovery coverage.

Zero Friction

Security tools should empower teams, not slow them down. We obsess over time-to-value and operational simplicity.

Customer Obsession

Our roadmap is shaped entirely by what makes security teams more effective — not by trends or competitive pressure.

The Team Behind ShadowGuard

We are a team of security engineers, data scientists, and enterprise software veterans united by a single belief: that visibility is the foundation of every great security program.

Alex Kim

Co-Founder & CEO — Former CISO at two Fortune 500 companies with 18 years in enterprise security.

Sophia Reyes

Co-Founder & CTO — Led network security engineering at a major cloud provider for 10 years.

David Liu

Head of AI Research — Former ML lead at a top-tier cybersecurity research lab, specializing in device fingerprinting.