Ezz Tahoun
CEO & Co-Founder at ezSec
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEzz Tahoun is a serial entrepreneur and security-focused AI researcher with nine years of experience building startups and operational cyber defenses, currently leading Cypienta as CEO & Co-Founder to cut SIEM ingest costs by 90% through event deduplication and MITRE ATT&CK-driven attack flow correlation. A former UWaterloo PhD candidate in cyber data science and Harvard entrepreneurship student, he combines top-tier academic research (multiple peer-reviewed papers and reviewer roles) with hands-on threat engineering and data science work at organizations like Huawei, Orange, and RBC. He began founding and scaling tech ventures in his early teens—building a six-figure social media business at 14 and later founding SOC automation and threat-hunting projects—bringing rare product instincts to complex security problems. Ezz is a frequent BlackHat/DefCon/SANS speaker and trainer, a holder of industry certifications (CISM, CRISC, Google Professional Architect, PMP), and has won competitive awards and seven-figure non-dilutive funding while collaborating with governments and large telcos. Less obvious: he repeatedly outperforms deeper models with leaner generative and outlier-detection approaches in mobile and network security, demonstrating a knack for making research practical and production-ready.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing, Certificate, Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing at EC-Council UniversityBachelor's Degree (incomplete), Computer Engineering, MGPA:4/4, GPA:3.8/4, Bachelor's Degree (incomplete), Computer Engineering, MGPA:4/4, GPA:3.8/4 at The American University in CairoBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.9/4, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.9/4 at McMaster UniversityCertificate, Cyber Security Architecture, Certificate, Cyber Security Architecture at University of OttawaPost-Graduate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Post-Graduate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Harvard UniversityCertificate, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, Certificate, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare at Seneca CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (dropout), Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (dropout), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (84)
proximity10
vagrantfile10
autoencoder9
differential-privacy9
packer9
data-privacy9
traffic9
privacy-enhancing-technologies9
federated-learning9
vcenter9
dfir-automation9
classification9
network-traffic9
powershell8
vagrant8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ezzeldinadel/projects
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
PrivPkt/PrivPkt
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Privacy Preserving Collaborative Encrypted Network Traffic Classification (Differential Privacy, Federated Learning, Membership Inference Attack, Encrypted Traffic Classification)
Contributions:45 commits, 4 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 3 months
secure-computationtrafficdifferentialclassificationencrypted
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