About Us

The future of cybersecurity is data-driven.

Introducing Empirical

We invented Risk-Based Vulnerability Management and co-created EPSS, and we've spent the last decade watching the industry catch up. Now we're building something new to meet the challenge of the current era: a security platform driven by modern AI, grounded in real-world telemetry, and designed to make decisions not just generate alerts. Leading enterprises are already running our custom models and other products to give their security teams greater reach, greater precision, and greater impact.

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Our Founders

Ed Bellis

CEO

Ed Bellis was the founder of Kenna Security, a pioneer behind the creation of the Risk-Based Vulnerability Management category. Kenna was acquired by Cisco in 2021, where he lead the Data Science teams for their Threat Detection and Response product portfolio. Before founding Kenna, Ed spent nearly two decades as a hands-on security practitioner, including serving as CISO of Orbitz and holding security roles at organizations such as Bank of America, CSC, and others. In addition to his leadership in cybersecurity, Ed is also a published author. He co-authored Modern Vulnerability Management with Roytman and contributed to the anthology Beautiful Security.

Michael Roytman

CTO

Michael was the Chief Data Scientist of Kenna Security, and a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. He served on boards for the Society of Information Risk Analysts, Cryptomove, and Social Capital. He was the co-founder and executive chair of Dharma Platform (acquired, BAO Systems), for which he landed on the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. He currently serves on Forbes Technology Council.

Jay Jacobs

Chief Data Scientist

Jay is the lead data scientist for the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) and is Co-chair of the EPSS special interest group at FIRST. He is a co-founder of the Society for Information Risk Analysts (SIRA), a not-for-profit association dedicated to advancing risk management practices and of Cyentia Institute, a leading security research firm. Jay's book “Data-Driven Security”, covers data analysis and visualizations for information security professionals.

Our Teams

Data Science

We’re building the world’s first organization specific models for cybersecurity.

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Engineering

We’re building UIs, APIs, and Agents for the next generation of cybersecurity.

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Design

We’re crafting the product and visual design behind everything Empirical.

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Research

We’re sharing our security expertise to protect the security industry in a machine-scale world.

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Growth

We’re helping organizations solve today’s toughest security challenges with our custom built models.

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We’re building the world’s first organization specific models for cybersecurity.

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