Operating Environments & Advisory Exposure
Our advisory judgment is shaped by hands-on exposure to negotiating, building and operating AI and security-critical systems at scale.
Daswani AI helps organizations secure AI systems with a risk-first, governance-oriented approach backed by strong technical depth and countermeasures.
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Operating Environments & Advisory Exposure
Our advisory judgment is shaped by hands-on exposure to negotiating, building and operating AI and security-critical systems at scale.
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AI Attacks
About this book:-
The first years of the generative AI era produced a set of defining
security incidents—watershed moments that revealed the fundamental
patterns of how AI systems can be attacked, how they can be
weaponized, and how they fail.
Recent Talks
Daswani AI engages with executives, academic, and industry audiences on AI security, cybersecurity risk, and system governance—sharing research-backed insights to inform critical decisions.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help organizations secure, deploy, and operate AI systems responsibly—by strengthening systems security foundations, protecting critical infrastructure, and enabling innovation that can be trusted at scale.
Resilience across complex systems
Security for systems at scale
Risk management at scale
Awards & Achievements
Recognition reflects sustained contribution and responsibility in the fields of AI security and cybersecurity, rather than individual milestones or short-term outcomes.
Online Trust Alliance Honor Roll 2017 - #1 in Consumer Sector
Bellcore Presidential Recognition Award
Google Executive Management Group Impact Award
Top 100 CISOs in the US
Bay Area ORBIE CISO of the Year Award Finalist
Online Trust Alliance Honor Roll 2017 - #1 in Consumer Sector
Bellcore Presidential Recognition Award
Google Executive Management Group Impact Award
Top 100 CISOs in the US
Bay Area ORBIE CISO of the Year Award Finalist
Online Trust Alliance Honor Roll 2017 - #1 in Consumer Sector
Bellcore Presidential Recognition Award
Google Executive Management Group Impact Award
Top 100 CISOs in the US
Bay Area ORBIE CISO of the Year Award Finalist
Our Advisory Services
Daswani AI works directly with senior leadership to address AI security challenges at the strategic level — where architecture, governance, and risk decisions have long-term consequences.
Because a failure to define AI strategy, governance, and safeguards upfront can cost organizations enormously.
Providing strategic security oversight and governance so your organization can operate confidently.
Securing AI pipelines, models, and cloud environments against sophisticated adversarial threats.
Dr. Neil Daswani is regularly quoted by global media on AI security, cybersecurity
risk, and system failures—providing informed perspective where accuracy and
context matter.
He brings over two decades of experience across academia, industry leadership, and
advisory roles, working with organizations where security, trust, and governance are
business-critical.
Connect with Daswani AI to assess risk, strengthen governance, and make informed decisions around AI and cybersecurity—before those decisions are tested under real-world conditions.
Get a Complimentary ConversationOver the course of his career, Dr. Neil Daswani has contributed to advancing the fields of AI security and cybersecurity through research, innovation, and industry engagement. These contributions reflect sustained, long-term work rather than isolated achievements.
Granted patents across cybersecurity and machine learning, reflecting applied innovation in securing complex systems and modern computing environments.
Extensive peer-reviewed research publications across leading academic and industry venues, including ACM and IEEE, contributing to the broader understanding of security, systems, and risk.
Senior executives, founders, and investors engage with Daswani AI when AI and cybersecurity decisions carry long-term operational, reputational, or regulatory impact.
Eric Benhamou
Founder of Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV)
and former CEO of 3Com
"Neil's expertise in cybersecurity makes him among the very best in his field. He couples it with clear, methodical thinking and a talent for explaining complicated concepts in simple terms, understandable even to a venture capitalist!"
Bennet Yee
Member of Honors College Board of Regents
at Oregon State University
"Neil worked on important, internal infrastructure for Google security about which I cannot disclose more. In vague generalities, I can say that Neil is a great software engineer who is able to jump in, understand a complex software pipeline, and make the necessary changes to achieve the engineering/security goals."
Steve Weis
Co-founder & CTO of PrivateCore
(acquired by Facebook)
"Neil's expertise at Google ranged over areas including online click fraud, web application security, and malware. He excelled in both engineering and management roles. Neil was always a team player and great to work with, notably when collaborating on research about online advertising fraud."
Michael Downing
Founder
"Having built 3 other software companies over the last 10 years, I have yet to come across another senior technology team member who has such a strong ability to immediately identify the key technology issues, distill that information effectively for the team, and then lead efforts forward towards development goals, a very valuable and unique skill-set indeed."
Razvan Surdulescu
Principal Software Engineer, Robotics, Google DeepMind
"Neil was a prolific and influential member of the Google Traffic Quality team. He established and drove a number of key projects around experimentation and malware detection. All these projects are still relevant today, and some are in heavy use. Neil blends innovation, expertise, and careful attention to detail in order to understand a problem domain, propose solutions that are novel and valuable, and works well with others to drive them to completion. It was a pleasure to work with Neil at Google!"
Lourdes Gipson, MBA
Global Senior Executive Director | C-Suite Leadership & Executive Community
"Neil has been recognized as a 2024 Corporate Finalist by the BayAreaCISO ORBIE® Awards for his outstanding leadership, management effectiveness, and business value created through technology, security, and innovation as Chief Information Security Officer at QuantumScape. The Awards are presented annually by BayAreaCISO Leadership Network, the preeminent peer network for Bay Area leading Chief Information Security Officers, part of the Inspire Leadership Network."
Ravi Jain
AI for Climate, Energy, Augmented Reality, Search, and Social Impact
"Neil is an outstanding engineer, manager, and leader who combines deep technical expertise with market savvy and entrepreneurial vim."
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
CEO of Xero, board member, entrepreneur & investor. Passionate about leveraging technology to build great customer experiences, and building great teams that have impact.
"At both Yodlee and at Dasient (in which I invested in), I have seen Neil's tech entrepreneur skills in action. In both cases, he helped build business by leading R&D efforts of next-generation technology. In both the areas of security and wireless, he advanced the state of the art, impressing customers and helping generating sales, while also acquiring patents and building deep intellectual property along the way"
Arkajit Dey
Senior Staff Software Engineer
"Neil has the rare distinction of having convinced me to work with him not once, not twice, not even thrice, but four different times! The first time may have been a fluke :), but since then I've worked with Neil again and again because he's a great colleague and mentor. I feel fortunate to have worked with him early in my career, since he's especially supportive of junior members on his team. He respected my opinions and treated me like a peer right from the start of my first internship with him at Google. Later at Dasient, even as an intern, he gave me a lot of responsibility and room to run on projects critical to the company. But, importantly, he also backed-up this autonomy with enough guidance to keep me moving forward. These are just a few examples of how Neil trusts his teammates and invests the time and energy required to keep making them better. That's why I'd happily work with him yet again for a fifth time."
Eric Benhamou
Founder of Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV)
and former CEO of 3Com
"Neil's expertise in cybersecurity makes him among the very best in his field. He couples it with clear, methodical thinking and a talent for explaining complicated concepts in simple terms, understandable even to a venture capitalist!"
Bennet Yee
Member of Honors College Board of Regents
at Oregon State University
"Neil worked on important, internal infrastructure for Google security about which I cannot disclose more. In vague generalities, I can say that Neil is a great software engineer who is able to jump in, understand a complex software pipeline, and make the necessary changes to achieve the engineering/security goals."
Steve Weis
Co-founder & CTO of PrivateCore
(acquired by Facebook)
"Neil's expertise at Google ranged over areas including online click fraud, web application security, and malware. He excelled in both engineering and management roles. Neil was always a team player and great to work with, notably when collaborating on research about online advertising fraud."
Michael Downing
Founder
"Having built 3 other software companies over the last 10 years, I have yet to come across another senior technology team member who has such a strong ability to immediately identify the key technology issues, distill that information effectively for the team, and then lead efforts forward towards development goals, a very valuable and unique skill-set indeed."
Razvan Surdulescu
Principal Software Engineer, Robotics, Google DeepMind
"Neil was a prolific and influential member of the Google Traffic Quality team. He established and drove a number of key projects around experimentation and malware detection. All these projects are still relevant today, and some are in heavy use. Neil blends innovation, expertise, and careful attention to detail in order to understand a problem domain, propose solutions that are novel and valuable, and works well with others to drive them to completion. It was a pleasure to work with Neil at Google!"
Lourdes Gipson, MBA
Global Senior Executive Director | C-Suite Leadership & Executive Community
"Neil has been recognized as a 2024 Corporate Finalist by the BayAreaCISO ORBIE® Awards for his outstanding leadership, management effectiveness, and business value created through technology, security, and innovation as Chief Information Security Officer at QuantumScape. The Awards are presented annually by BayAreaCISO Leadership Network, the preeminent peer network for Bay Area leading Chief Information Security Officers, part of the Inspire Leadership Network."
Ravi Jain
AI for Climate, Energy, Augmented Reality, Search, and Social Impact
"Neil is an outstanding engineer, manager, and leader who combines deep technical expertise with market savvy and entrepreneurial vim."
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
CEO of Xero, board member, entrepreneur & investor. Passionate about leveraging technology to build great customer experiences, and building great teams that have impact.
"At both Yodlee and at Dasient (in which I invested in), I have seen Neil's tech entrepreneur skills in action. In both cases, he helped build business by leading R&D efforts of next-generation technology. In both the areas of security and wireless, he advanced the state of the art, impressing customers and helping generating sales, while also acquiring patents and building deep intellectual property along the way"
Arkajit Dey
Senior Staff Software Engineer
"Neil has the rare distinction of having convinced me to work with him not once, not twice, not even thrice, but four different times! The first time may have been a fluke :), but since then I've worked with Neil again and again because he's a great colleague and mentor. I feel fortunate to have worked with him early in my career, since he's especially supportive of junior members on his team. He respected my opinions and treated me like a peer right from the start of my first internship with him at Google. Later at Dasient, even as an intern, he gave me a lot of responsibility and room to run on projects critical to the company. But, importantly, he also backed-up this autonomy with enough guidance to keep me moving forward. These are just a few examples of how Neil trusts his teammates and invests the time and energy required to keep making them better. That's why I'd happily work with him yet again for a fifth time."