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About Keystrike

Why we built Keystrike

Keystrike was founded by researchers and security engineers who kept seeing the same blind spot. Organizations with strong identity stacks, mature PAM deployments, and full SIEM coverage still couldn't answer one question: what actually happened inside that session, from login to logout?

The gap we initially set out to close is now widening in a new direction: AI agents act on real systems with real permissions, and a redirected agent looks authorized to everything upstream. Today Keystrike secures remote sessions, agentic work, and third-party access by blocking interactions to sensitive resources in real-time unless they have Proven Intent: actions, commands, or prompts that are cryptographically bound to the authorized person's input.

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What We Believe

Intent is the new perimeter

Authentication tells you who was granted access. It tells you nothing about what they did with it. That gap between access intent and access reality is where the most significant risks in modern enterprise security live. It's where authenticated attackers operate, where stolen credentials and hijacked sessions do their damage, and where a trusted third party can quietly exceed the scope they were given.

That's why we built the Intent-Based Security Platform for governing AI agents and critical systems. Our goal is to secure every remote session, agentic work and third-party access by blocking interactions to sensitive resources in real-time, unless they have Proven Intent: Actions, commands, or prompts that are cryptographically bound to the authorized person's input.

The team behind Keystrike

Keystrike is led by researchers, security engineers, and operators who watched attackers keep getting in despite a crowded security stack and built the company to solve the problem the industry kept stepping past.

Valdimar Oskarsson

Valdimar Oskarsson

Chief Executive Officer

Ymir Vigfusson

Ymir Vigfusson

Chief Technology Officer

Steindor Gudmundsson

Steindor Gudmundsson

Chief Product Officer

Johanna Vigdis Gudmundsdottir

Johanna Vigdis Gudmundsdottir

VP Growth & Business Development

Helena Hallgrimsson

Helena Hallgrimsson

VP Finance

What we value

Excellence

We strive for excellence.

High performance, shared accountability, ambitious goals — we win together or not at all.

Customer first

The customer is our cornerstone.

We simplify and secure how our customers work, because security shouldn't require trade-offs with usability.

Innovation

We challenge conventions.

Built on academic roots, we foster research inside and outside the company.

Integrity

We act with empathy and integrity.

Transparent, honest, accountable — we say what we mean and own what we do.

Balance

We're playful and balanced.

Endlessly curious tinkerers who know that sustainable performance takes balance.

Impact

We deploy where it matters.

Our priority is to protect critical infrastructure, to keep society running safely and daily lives intact.

Careers

We solve hard problems

The kind that need academic rigor and elegant engineering. If that's the work you're looking for, tell us where you'd fit.

Submissions go directly to our team at connect@keystrike.com.

For Investors

Keystrike is building the Intent-Based Security Platform: the control layer that binds every action — human or AI — to an authorized person, in the sectors where accountable access isn't optional. We welcome conversations with investors and strategic partners.

invest@keystrike.com

All enquiries are treated in strict confidence.

Press & Contact

Press

For interviews, briefings, and media requests, reach the team here.

Contact

Questions about Keystrike, or want to see the platform on your environment? Send us a note.

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