Applied Cyber

Doppel's Applied Cyber Experts

Applied Cyber is Doppel's team of cybersecurity experts. They shape what we build, teach our AI how experts think, and bring that expertise to every solution: the takedowns that remove attacker infrastructure, the analysis that stops email attacks, and the simulations that test your people.

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The expertise

Experts first. Then everything else.

Every person on the team has spent years on the offensive or defensive side of social engineering attacks. Here is what that expertise looks like in practice.

Competition and Field-proven hackers

First-place DEF CON finishers and former red teamers with 50,000+ live vishing calls, millions of phishing and smishing messages, and deepfake impersonations run against senior executives across federal, Fortune 500, and financial services environments. They don’t study how people get targeted. They’ve spent their careers doing the targeting.

Cloaking and evasion specialists

Practitioners who break through cloaking built to defeat automated detection and pivot across domains, social platforms, code repositories, and passive DNS to connect the signals scanners miss. Every evasion they expose becomes a detection the platform can’t be fooled by again.

Email and BEC leaders

Practitioners and product leaders who have spent decades dissecting phishing and business email compromise down to the infrastructure, identity, behavioral, and messaging signals that give attacks away. They know why attacks bypass existing controls, and they’ve built the detection that stops them.

DNS abuse and takedown leads

Leaders with decades across DNS abuse, trust and safety, and internet policy, from registrars and TLD operators to ICANN and Capitol Hill. They do more than win individual takedowns. They shape abuse policy and open escalation paths that disrupt whole categories of malicious activity at internet scale.

Why it matters

Humans set the standard. The system meets it at scale.

Doppel's AI is trained and measured against how expert practitioners solve the problem. The platform applies that judgment at machine speed; the experts take on the cases it hasn't solved yet, then make the answer repeatable. They stay close to customers' hardest problems so what they learn flows back into the product.

“We had other vendors who said, "here is this thing, now go use it." Having a trusted partner like Doppel is reassuring for me and leadership in order to deliver on value.”
— Head of Security, Fortune 100 financial services

The learning loop

One expert decision should improve the next million.

An expert who uncovers a cloaked domain, completes a takedown, or builds a phishing simulation has produced one result. That is one-to-one leverage, and no team is large enough for it to be the model.

Applied Cyber works differently. When an expert makes a call, the team captures why, not just what. That reasoning becomes labels, rubrics, and evaluations that Doppel’s models and agents are continuously tested against. The expert’s judgment becomes the platform’s judgment.

One takedown removes one threattoOne takedown teaches the system how to remove the next

One investigation uncovers one cloaked domaintoOne investigation hardens detection for every domain like it

One simulation trains one persontoOne simulation sharpens how the platform reads risk for everyone

Agents analyze misses and false positives, flag labeling inconsistencies, and turn difficult production cases into new evaluations. Experts rule on the hard ones. The platform learns the ruling.

One attack chain

Attackers don’t work in product categories.

Digital Risk Protection

The infrastructure and content attackers build

Domains, social accounts, apps, and the cloaking meant to hide them. Expert takedown work here trains the platform to act on lookalike infrastructure faster.

Email Security

The messages and attacks they send

Phishing and BEC broken down to the signals that expose them. Expert analysis here becomes detection logic the platform applies to every inbox.

Human Risk Management

The people they target and how they respond

Who gets targeted, with what pretext, and what happens next. Expert-built simulations here calibrate how the platform measures and reduces human risk.

The infrastructure, the message, and the person are pieces of one attack. All three solutions run on one Superintelligence Layer, shaped by the Applied Cyber team, so expert judgment encoded on one surface makes the platform more accurate on the other two.

What it means for you

Guide the product

Applied Cyber defines what best-in-class looks like in each domain and validates that what Doppel ships meets the bar of sophisticated practitioners.

Train the AI

The team creates the ground truth Doppel’s models learn from and are evaluated against. Problems that once required expert intervention become capabilities the platform handles on its own.

Open the ecosystem

Direct relationships with hosting providers, registrars, and email and social platforms turn one-off escalations into enforcement at scale. In-house experts and direct provider relationships and escalations including PIR, Cloudflare, TikTok.

Meet the experts

A domain owner for every problem we solve.

Every area Doppel defends has a named expert accountable for its quality bar, and when Doppel enters a new domain, Applied Cyber sets that bar first.

Applied Cyber leadership

Davis Craig

Senior Director of Applied Cyber

Experts first. Then everything else.

Competition and Field-proven hackers

Cloaking and evasion specialists

Email and BEC leaders

DNS abuse and takedown leads

Humans set the standard. The system meets it at scale.

One expert decision should improve the next million.

Attackers don’t work in product categories.

Digital Risk Protection

Email Security

Human Risk Management

Guide the product

Train the AI

Open the ecosystem

A domain owner for every problem we solve.

Davis Craig

Beth Bacon

Pete Pang

Sofia Schaff

Carter Zupancich

Joseph Natoli

Mark Gasacao

Isaac Hathaway

Indy Mellink

Shelby Dacko

Steven Semrau

Faith Kent

Tom Lam

Bryce Delbridge

Jessica Kirkham

See their judgment in your defense.