Karim Eldefrawy

Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Co-founder and CTO at Confidencial.io
2017-2021: SRI
2011-2016: HRL Laboratories
2006-2010: PhD@UC Irvine

2026: Data Solution of the Year for Legal in the 7th Annual Data Breakthrough Awards by the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards.

2025: Encryption Innovation Award by the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. The winning CyberSecurity Breakthrough selections showcase information security technologies and companies that push ingenuity and exemplify the best in cybersecurity and risk management technology solutions across the globe.

2024: Test of Time Award by the Internet Society’s Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): An award that recognizes the most influential papers that have been published in past NDSS Symposia.

2023: Cybersecurity Solution of the Year award at PWC Luxembourg Cybersecurity and Privacy Day

2015: Distinguished Inventor Award at HRL Laboratories

2013: New Inventor Award at HRL Laboratories

2008: Winner of the Computer Science HiTEC Product Development Competition at UCI