Ms. Knight is the Founder, CEO, and Chief AI Officer of Assail, a venture-backed cybersecurity and artificial intelligence company building agentic AI systems for continuous exposure management of modern application stacks. With more than 26 years at the forefront of offensive security including U.S. intelligence cyber operations, she is globally recognized for uncovering systemic vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and translating adversarial insight into defensible, scalable technology. She has advised the Pentagon and U.S. Marine Corps on API and application security and is the author of Hacking Connected Cars (Wiley). She’s a 6x Telly award winner for television production and was successfully inducted into The Mob Museum where her hacking tools and laptop are permanently exhibited as part of the museum's global cybercrime collection.