imper.ai Recognized in Redpoint's 2026 InfraRed 100. May 27, 2026 by imper.ai Imper.ai, Inc. is proud to announce that imper.ai has been recognized in Redpoint Ventures' 2026 InfraRed 100, an annual list recognizing private companies building the foundational infrastructure of the AI era. Redpoint has backed generational infrastructure companies including Snowflake, Twilio, Stripe, HashiCorp, and Netflix. The problem Imper.ai, Inc. is solving. Voice phishing is now the number one initial infection vector for cloud compromises globally, per Mandiant M-Trends 2026. FAMOUS CHOLLIMA fraudulent employment activity doubled in 2025, per CrowdStrike. These are not edge cases. They are the fastest growing, most successful attack vectors targeting the enterprise today. What makes these attacks effective is the attacker's ability to appear operationally legitimate across every layer. They route traffic through residential proxies and Astrill VPN. They use AnyDesk to remotely control a physical device in the right city. They deploy virtual machines, anti-detect browsers, and virtual audio devices to avoid detection. Controlling credentials is easy. Controlling all of those layers simultaneously, across a live session, is where attackers leave signals. In Q1 2026, imper.ai identified 4 DPRK-affiliated candidates across 600 remote hiring sessions, each exhibiting overlapping infrastructure-layer indicators: Astrill VPN, AnyDesk, multi-hop proxy routing, and geographic latency irreconcilable with claimed location. Read the full threat report here. What Imper.ai, Inc. built. imper.ai is the first purpose-built platform for workforce identity impersonation detection, covering help desk vishing, hiring fraud, and shadow workforce infiltration across the full employee lifecycle. No ID scans. No biometrics. No friction for legitimate employees. "Being named to the InfraRed 100 reflects the urgency of the problem we are solving and the traction we are seeing from organizations that have realized their authentication stack does not cover the human layer," said Noam Awadish, CEO of imper.ai. "The threat actors targeting help desks and hiring pipelines are disciplined, well-resourced, and persistent. We built imper.ai to be the control that stops them."

imper.ai has launched its Workforce Identity Security platform at RSA Conference 2026, raising concerns over a critical vulnerability in enterprise security. The solution addresses attackers bypassing authentication through help desk account recovery and recruitment processes, rather than breaking multi-factor authentication directly. The platform combines an Impersonation Detection Engine, which analyses device integrity and environmental signals, with AI-driven contextual verification using role-based questions drawn from actual work context. Unlike traditional methods, it avoids document uploads or biometric enrollment. Founded by veterans of Israeli intelligence unit 8200 and backed by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures, imper.ai integrates with platforms including ServiceNow, Microsoft Entra and Workday. The company already serves customers in financial services, wholesale and technology sectors. The platform is now generally available.

imper.ai launches first Workforce Identity Security platform at RSAC 2026. PR Newswire Today at 9:04am PDT Purpose-built to stop impersonation and account takeover across the employee lifecycle SAN FRANCISCO, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - imper.ai today announced the launch of its Workforce Identity Security platform, the first purpose-built solution designed to prevent impersonation and account takeover across the employee lifecycle. The company is making its debut at RSA Conference 2026 at Booth S-1361. As phishing-resistant MFA adoption increases, attackers have shifted tactics. They no longer attempt to break authentication, they bypass it. Help desk account recovery and workforce hiring have become the preferred entry points. Gartner(R) framed the stakes directly in its February 2026 report, Workforce Identity Verification Requires Unique Capabilities: "IDV for workforce helps to mitigate the risk of attackers abusing either your account recovery process or your recruitment process to gain system access. Successful attacks on these critical processes can result in ransomware, theft of intellectual property, or regulatory scrutiny for paying citizens of sanctioned countries." "The workforce identity layer is the most exploited and least defended surface in the enterprise," said Noam Awadish, Co-Founder & CEO, imper.ai. "We are already deployed with customers in financial services, wholesale, and technology. What we see across all of them is the same gap, attackers going around authentication, not through it. imper.ai is built to close that gap across the entire employee lifecycle." NO DOCUMENTS. NO SELFIES. NO ARMS RACE. imper.ai does not rely on document uploads, biometric enrollment, or deepfake detection. Those approaches do not scale to workforce scenarios and create an arms race that defenders cannot consistently win. Instead, imper.ai combines two purpose-built technologies. The Impersonation Detection Engine identifies attacker controlled environments in real time, analyzing device integrity, virtualization artifacts, remote control tooling, VPN patterns, and geolocation signals to produce a dynamic risk score and drive automated policy enforcement. The AI Driven Contextual Verification layer confirms the person behind the session through dynamic, role based questions drawn from actual work context: which shift they worked, which system they accessed before submitting a request, which truck they are assigned that day. Questions an attacker cannot reliably answer at scale. "We verify work familiarity, not personal trivia, not biometrics," said Rom Dudkiewicz, Co-Founder & CTO, imper.ai. "Infrastructure signals and operational context are far harder to fake at scale than a document or a face." STOPPING IMPERSONATION AT THE HELP DESK AND THE HIRING DOOR At the help desk, imper.ai removes agent discretion from account recovery decisions, eliminating the social engineering opportunity that has driven breaches at MGM, Harrods, and Marks & Spencer. Secure self service account recovery reduces both risk and operational cost, particularly for outsourced help desk environments. In hiring, imper.ai assesses the legitimacy of a candidate's environment across multiple interview interactions, building a stronger signal over time to detect impersonation before credentials are ever issued. It integrates directly into platforms including Greenhouse and Workday with no change to recruiter workflow. Across both use cases, imper.ai embeds into existing workflows via native integrations with platforms including ServiceNow, Microsoft Entra, and Workday. Security teams get automated enforcement, risk scoring, and full audit logging. Help desk agents and recruiters operate as usual. The attack surface shrinks. The workflow does not. imper.ai is generally available today. To schedule a demonstration at RSAC 2026, visit imper.ai/rsac-2026 or stop by Booth S-1361. GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and its affiliates. ABOUT IMPER.AI imper.ai is on a mission to stop impersonation and social engineering as viable attack vectors against the enterprise workforce. Founded by veterans of Israeli elite intelligence unit 8200 and backed by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures, the company builds technology that identifies attacker-controlled environments and verifies the humans behind workforce interactions, without disrupting operations. Headquartered in New York. For more information, visit imper.ai. Melissa Riberdy SOURCE Imper.ai This is a paid placement. For further inquiries, please contact PR Newswire directly.