Arkose Labs, a prominent provider of fraud protection and bot management solutions, has appointed Shimon Modi as Senior Vice President of Product, tasking him with advancing the company’s platform against evolving digital fraud and abuse across the consumer journey.
Modi’s responsibilities will include leveraging artificial intelligence for both offensive and defensive strategies to combat sophisticated attacks, developing a future-ready roadmap to protect digital identities, and utilizing Arkose Labs’ consortium-driven intelligence. This intelligence, powered by insights from major global platforms, aims to provide customers with a strategic advantage against rapidly evolving threat actors. Modi stated, “Protecting massive digital platforms from everyday fraud, abuse and scams is not just a professional challenge, it’s personal. I think about the digital world my kids will grow up in, and I want to ensure it’s a safer, more secure place.”Modi brings 25 years of cybersecurity expertise to Arkose Labs. His background includes a PhD in biometrics and advanced user identification from Purdue University. He previously led product and engineering at threat intelligence startup TruSTAR, which was acquired by Splunk. Modi also contributed to shaping next-generation security solutions at Elastic and drove product strategy as VP of Cyber Product at Dataminr.
Kevin Gosschalk, founder and CEO of Arkose Labs, commented on the appointment, “Shimon’s deep expertise in cybersecurity, biometrics and AI, combined with his proven mission-driven leadership, will accelerate our ability to deliver best-in-class protection and continuous innovation for customers like Microsoft, Meta, Expedia and leading global banks.” Gosschalk added that Modi’s appointment reinforces the company’s commitment to redefining account security by disrupting the economic model of adversaries, aiming to increase attackers’ operational costs and complexity to make attacks financially unsustainable.
Modi’s leadership will align with Arkose Labs’ mission to proactively secure the digital customer journey and foster a more secure online environment. This involves redefining the future of fraud prevention and account security through AI innovation, consortium-driven intelligence, and a focus on combating emerging threats.
Arkose Labs is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global offices across APAC, Central America, EMEA, and South America. The company’s platform is designed to neutralize modern attacks, including those powered by Agentic AI and large language models (LLMs), by combining proprietary device identification, behavioral analysis, phishing protection, email intelligence, scraping prevention, API defense, and bot management. It serves leading consumer brands such as Microsoft, Meta, Roblox, and two of the top three banks, stopping account takeovers, fake account creation, LLM-driven scraping, and SMS toll fraud.
