Ana Aslanishvili

Founder & CEO

Ana grew up in the tumultuous aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. The military and political unrest, wars, coups, rampant crime, and severe economic downturn were all critical factors that forced the development of strong safety and security practices and theory from an early age. The ugly reality of the outside world combined with the warmth and support of family and community taught an early lesson about putting people at the center of security initiatives.

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About Ana

Ana grew up in the tumultuous aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. The military and political unrest, wars, coups, rampant crime, and severe economic downturn were all critical factors that forced the development of strong safety and security practices and theory from an early age. The ugly reality of the outside world combined with the warmth and support of family and community taught an early lesson about putting people at the center of security initiatives.

Ana, as a teenager, immigrated to the United States alone in pursuit of a better life and with hopes of building a similar tight-knit community as the one that helped her growing up in Tbilisi.

Landing in Minneapolis, Ana obtained her BA in Communications and Youth Work in 2011, and later pursued her MS in Security Technologies in 2017, both from University of Minnesota. Her career started in corporate security, accelerating and expanding to include risk management, risk communications, investigations, security consulting, and culminating as a people-centric security leader helping to shape, lead, and improve high performing teams. After years of exploring the far corners of fields that keep people safe, Ana ultimately discovers all her passions come together in the realm of red teaming. Ana has been red teaming since 2017 at organizations big and small, private and public, using physical penetration tactics, social engineering, and analytical red teaming tools to reach the mission objectives. She is strongly invested in establishing physical red teaming as a profession and has been advocating for this purpose, whether through her board membership at CART, standing up the largest physical red team in Silicon Valley, or writing for various security publications to demystify the murky field of red teaming.