Muhammad Rizwan is the Co-Founder and CTO of StrongestLayer, an AI-native email security company where he leads the engineering vision and LLM-powered detection strategy to combat next-generation cyber threats.

With over 15 years in cybersecurity, Rizwan previously held key roles at FireEye and Trellix, where he played a pivotal role in scaling FireEye's globally recognized detection engine for advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day attacks.

Educated at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Rizwan is widely regarded as an expert in applied AI for cybersecurity, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.

At StrongestLayer, Rizwan serves as the architect of the company's TRACE (Threat Reasoning AI Correlation Engine) detection stack, combining machine learning, natural language processing, and real-time behavioral analysis to stop AI-generated phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC).

StrongestLayer has raised $9.3M in total seed funding, with production deployments growing more than eightfold since its initial launch, and its predictive campaign detection has already identified 3.9 million fake company websites.