Armadin, an AI-native offensive cybersecurity company, has announced the appointment of George Kurtz as an independent member of its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Kurtz, the founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, brings over 30 years of industry leadership and a deep background in offensive security to the company.
Strategic Appointment: George Kurtz joins the board to help scale Armadin's growth and commercialization.
Offensive Security Roots: Kurtz is the co-author of Hacking Exposed, a foundational text in offensive methodology.
Proven Track Record: Founder/CEO of CrowdStrike and former Worldwide CTO at McAfee.
Reuniting Leaders: Kurtz joins CEO Kevin Mandia; the two previously worked together at Foundstone (acquired by McAfee).
Platform Philosophy: Armadin utilizes an "agentic attacker swarm" to provide continuous, evidence-based proof of exploitable risk.
Company Momentum: Armadin exited stealth in March 2026 with a record $189.9M in combined Seed and Series A funding led by Accel.
The appointment of George Kurtz signals a significant step for Armadin as it targets the burgeoning "agentic adversary" era. Unlike traditional point-in-time assessments, Armadin’s platform uses autonomous AI trained on real attacker behavior to continuously map an organization's attack surface and prioritize remediation based on actual exploit paths.
"George understands the shift change in cybersecurity: AI has given us the means to scale the world's best ethical hackers to find exploitable risk and to fine-tune defenses for autonomous response," said Kevin Mandia, CEO of Armadin. "George's execution talent is second to none. I look forward to accelerating the growth of Armadin with his guidance."
Kurtz’s experience in building global security platforms aligns with Armadin’s mission to replace security assumptions with evidence. By deploying a swarm of AI agents that plan and adapt like advanced threat actors, the platform identifies vulnerabilities that a human-in-the-loop defense might miss at machine speed.
"Armadin is solving a problem that the security industry has largely worked around rather than through," Kurtz noted. "Most organizations still rely on point-in-time assessments to answer a question that requires continuous, evidence-based proof. I believe Armadin is building something the market needs and has not had."
About Armadin
Armadin is an AI-native cybersecurity company delivering an offensive security platform to eliminate exploitable risks. Led by CEO Kevin Mandia and founders Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, and David Slater, the company utilizes specialized AI agents to uncover verified kill chains across the entire attack surface
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