HACKPOD
Defend.
Vision
A pod for every community.
Mission
Big-tech-grade security accessible to everyone.
Promise
Defending everyone in it.
Defense tech & AI security
Security is the rootof a thrivingsociety.
Hackpod finds the ways in before someone else does. Combining human hackers and AI to secure nations at scale.
Born to help defend communities.
The name
hack·podHack meets Pod.
A pod is the collective noun for orcas. Intelligent, altruistic, native to nordic seas, and they defend their own.
A pod defends its own.
No country can buy its way to safety one audit at a time. A pod is the whole community defending itself: a nation's own ethical hackers watching the critical infrastructure their neighbours depend on.
Hackers defend their own.
Ethical hackers care about the places they live. Give them a way in, and they'll help defend what matters: the systems, services, and infrastructure their communities rely on.
Founder story · 1995 → today
From a school bus to a nation's defense.
1995
Bus accident
At fourteen, a school bus drove over our founder.
Started hacking
A computer, a dial-up modem and endless time.
Arrested
Learning had consequences.
2013
Founded Syndis
Iceland's leading cybersecurity company.
Hacked multiple big companies
Meta, Dropbox, Spotify and Airbnb. Dropbox publicly praised the work.
The aha moment
Big tech can buy world-class security. The hospital that fixed him could not.
2023
Founded hackpod
A community's own ethical hackers, multiplied by AI.
Why hackpod
Why choose hackpod?
400+ vetted ethical hackers in the pod
Zero false positives, every finding human-verified
20,000 vulnerabilities found
24/7 autonomous coverage from AI Defender
~1/10th the cost of a traditional pentest
Proven at nation scale in Iceland and Denmark
Community and autonomy. One mission: defend.
Humans teach. AI scales.
Defend · the community
Defend
Community-driven bug bounty for whole nations.
A vetted pod of ethical hackers, defending the country they live in, continuously probes the digital infrastructure it depends on. We validate every finding, prioritise it, guide the fix and retest until it is closed. Live in Iceland and Denmark, trusted by critical infrastructure organisations in both test markets.
50+
Customers
~400
Defenders
20,000
Vulnerabilities found
0
False positives
AI Defender · the autonomy
AI Defender
An autonomous hacker that learns from every defender's verified findings.
AI Defender turns years of validated attack telemetry into an always-on skilled penetration tester. On-demand security assessments at a fraction of consultancy cost, for every organisation, not just the ones that can afford a quarterly pentest.
24/7
autonomous coverage
1/10th
cost of a traditional pentest
Designed for nations, enterprise, SMB, and channel partners.
Expansion
Defend the Nordics.
Iceland and Denmark are live. Norway, Sweden and Finland are next: one threat picture, shared regulation, and a playbook already proven twice. One Nordic pod, then the rest of Europe.
Nations
National authorities running a country-wide pod on multi-year programmes.
Enterprise
Enterprise and critical infrastructure, hospitals, utilities, transport and finance under continuous coverage.
SMB
Self-serve AI Defender for the firms a nation's economy actually runs on.
Channel
MSSPs, resellers and cyber insurers taking the pod to market white-label.
LiveNext:NordicsEuropeThe planet
Live: defendiceland.is · defenddenmark.dk
Backed by
Validated by trusted innovation partners.
Grants won · non-dilutive
€2.7M+ total
GrantECCC · Digital Europe
European Cybersecurity Competence Centre
€2.53M
GrantNSM Norway · CRESCENDO
Norwegian National Security Authority
€200k
Investors
Trusted by leaders and our role models.
Syndis
Strategic partner
Iceland's leading cybersecurity firm. Shareholder and operating partner, bringing two decades of adversarial expertise into the pod.
Gudmundur Fertram Sigurjonsson
Angel investor
Founder and CEO of Kerecis, acquired by Coloplast. Iceland's first and only unicorn founder. Backing hackpod as an angel investor.
Head of the POD
Operators, not spectators.
Co-founder & CEO
A proven and passionate entrepreneur. Built and exited two security companies: Syndis, acquired by Origo, and Adversary, acquired by Secure Code Warrior. Did the hands-on offensive work behind them for Meta, Airbnb, Dropbox, Spotify and Fortune 500 tech.
Cited by Dropbox Security ↗
Co-founder & COO
Operator getting hackpod's pods up and running across markets. Runs partnerships, community and the day-to-day of nation-scale bounty programs.
Defend your community.
For everyone who understands that security is a public good, not a quarterly checkbox.
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