David Goldschlag

Co-Founder and CEO

About Author

David Goldschlag is the co-founder and CEO of Aembit and an experienced cybersecurity entrepreneur. He previously co-founded New Edge Labs, a zero trust network access company acquired by Netskope, and MobileSpaces, a mobile security company acquired by Pulse Secure. David has held leadership roles at Netskope, Pulse Secure, McAfee, and USinternetworking. Earlier in his career, he worked at the National Security Agency and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, where he co-invented Onion Routing, the technology that later became the foundation for Tor.

Expertise

  • Cybersecurity
  • Identity and access management
  • Non-human identity
  • Workload identity and access management
  • AI agent identity and access
  • Zero trust
  • Network security
  • Mobile security
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Privacy and anonymous communications
  • Security architecture
  • Cybersecurity entrepreneurship

Education

  • Ph.D. in computer science, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Wayne State University

Selected Patents

  • Onion Routing Network for Securely Moving Data through Communications Networks
  • System and Method for Controlling Mobile Device Access to a Network
  • Mobile Risk Assessment
  • Hierarchical Key Management
  • Conditional Access via Secure Logging with Simplified Key Management

Articles by David Goldschlag

When enterprises deploy Claude for Work, every agent inherits the employee’s full identity and access rights with no guardrails, no policy, and no audit trail. Here’s how one $300B investment firm closed that gap, and what it means for yours.
Aembit founders David Goldschlag and Kevin Sapp share why this prestigious showcase goes beyond the opportunity to compete for “Most Innovative Startup.”
The funding will help Aembit extend Zero Trust principles, best known for influencing user access to resources, to non-human identities.
Deep dive into the unique —and shared — challenges, risks, and best practices involving the three primary identity categories within an organization.
Okta Ventures investment in Aembit seeks to revolutionize Workload IAM, uniting DevOps, security, and developers for a secure, identity-first future.
Aembit is launching from stealth today, and has three exciting announcements!
Video and transcript of a presentation and overview of Aembit (January 2023). Aembit helps customers manage, enforce, and audit access between workloads.