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Katie Moussouris

Founder and CEO at Luta Security

Katie Moussouris

About Katie Moussouris

Katie Moussouris is the founder and CEO of Luta Security, a company that creates and manages sustainable bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs. She advises companies and governments on emerging trends in AI and cybersecurity and how the dynamics are shifting between attack, defense, national security, and human expertise adaptation and co-evolution.

Ms. Moussouris is the co-author and co-editor of ISO standards 29147 vulnerability disclosure and ISO 30111 vulnerability handling processes. During her tenure with Microsoft, Ms. Moussouris started Microsoft Vulnerability Research as well as Microsoft’s first bug bounty program. She served as a technical advisor to the US Wassenaar delegation to help renegotiate clarifications to export control of intrusion software and technology.

Ms. Moussouris led the launch of the U.S. government’s first bug bounty program, "Hack the Pentagon." She also served as a member of DHS's Cyber Safety Review Board and NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. Ms. Moussouris currently serves as a member of the U.S. Commerce Department’s Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee.