The team
People who ran brand-abuse incident response before they built the tool
Brandefense is a small, ops-focused team. Everyone on the core team has handled brand-impersonation incidents — we built the product specifically because the existing tooling was either too slow or priced for enterprises that could afford six-figure DRP contracts.
Leadership
Core team
Mehmet Caner Kiroglu
CEO & Founder
Former CERT/CSIRT incident responder. Managed brand-impersonation incidents for regional banks and financial platforms before co-founding Brandefense in Miami in 2022. Leads registrar relationship management, abuse template strategy, and takedown SLA policy. Knows every tier of the ICANN-accredited registrar escalation chain from direct experience.
Ali Kaya
CTO & Co-Founder
Designed and built the CT log ingestion pipeline (crt.sh, Google Argon, Cloudflare Nimbus), WHOIS delta monitoring infrastructure, and passive DNS correlation layer. Previously in threat intelligence and security engineering at a cybersecurity consultancy. Architects the phishing-kit HTML hash fingerprinting engine and Telegram public channel enumeration systems.
Selin Arslan
Head of Threat Intelligence
Previously led abuse-reporting operations at a regional telecom — managing brand impersonation takedown requests at volume across registrars and social platforms. At Brandefense, owns the direct relationships with 40+ ICANN-accredited registrars, abuse template quality, and SLA compliance. Her institutional knowledge of which registrar escalation paths actually produce sub-4-hour responses is the operational edge behind the SLA commitment.
Advisory
Security advisors
James Calloway
Security Advisor — Financial Services
20 years in financial services information security. Former CISO at a regional bank ($2B AUM). Advises Brandefense on SOC integration requirements, procurement patterns, and the specific evidence package needs of bank InfoSec and compliance teams evaluating DRP tools in the $500M–$5B revenue tier.
Rania El-Hassan
Security Advisor — Brand Protection
Former Trust & Safety lead at a global e-commerce platform (100M+ SKUs, multi-region). Brings direct experience with Meta, Twitter, and LinkedIn platform abuse teams — including what evidence format each requires for rapid removal. Advises Brandefense on social channel takedown evidence packaging and platform-specific escalation paths.
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