Tim Nordvedt

Senior Manager, North America Solutions Architecture

Tim Nordvedt is a Solutions Architect at Synack specializing in offensive security, AI-powered penetration testing, and continuous security validation. He works with enterprise organizations to modernize security testing strategies by combining agentic AI with expert human validation to identify real exploitable risk at scale.

Recent research

Build vs. Buy AI Pentesting: Why Dow Chose to Partner With Synack

Agentic AI

Aug 5, 2026

Build vs. Buy AI Pentesting: Why Dow Chose to Partner With Synack

To hear both sides of the build vs buy debate around AI pentesting solutions, we spoke with Dow's cyber engineering team lead Dan Lacher and Synack's CTO Mark Kuhr. From Dow's perspective, Synack served as a force multiplier for a small internal red team. Meanwhile, building the Synack Autonomous Red Agent (Sara) from scratch definitely had some trial and error.

The 2026 State of Vulnerabilities: What the Data Misses, According to Our Red Team

Our 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report surfaces what Synack finds in tested customer environments. At a recent webinar, two of our most decorated researchers from the Synack Red Team describe the threat landscape they’re seeing beyond the report findings. Here's what the data shows, what practitioners have experienced, and what your security program should do about the gap.

Tim Nordvedt

8 min read