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David Kaplan

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AI Security Research Lead at Origin
📍 Israel

David Kaplan is the AI Security Research Lead at Origin, specializing in adversarial AI and endpoint security for the semantic era. A former Principal Security Researcher at Microsoft, he has deep expertise in systems-level security, including firmware and kernels, and holds an MEng from the University of Birmingham.

Colleagues and collaborators describe him as exceptional, hard-working, trustworthy, and insightful, with a personality that has a positive effect on team morale.

Unique fact: David holds patents for technologies outside of his core security focus, including one for vehicle mirror adjustment and another for initiating action on partial voice commands.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
AI Security Research Lead
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Israel
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Adversarial AI
He leads research into adversarial AI tradecraft at Origin, focusing on threats from models, autonomous agents, and AI assistants.
Endpoint Security
His career at Microsoft was centered on Defender for Endpoint, and he is now building a new generation of endpoint capabilities at Origin.
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Career

Work history

12-2025
AI Security Research Lead
Origin
3-2024 - 12-2025
Principal Security Researcher
Microsoft
3-2021 - 3-2024
Principal Security Research Lead
Microsoft
9-2018 - 3-2021
Principal Security Researcher
Microsoft
3-2014 - 4-2016
Senior Security Researcher
IBM
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Education
2002 - 2006
MEng
University of Birmingham
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