Nikos Fountas

Chief Operating Officer @ Hack The Box

Nikos Fountas is the Chief Operations Officer, Company Director, Board Member, and one of the earliest team members at Hack The Box. With over 15 years of experience, he is a senior management professional specializing in Operations Management, Strategic Planning, Human Resources, International B2B/B2G Business Development, and Revenue Operations. Nikos brings deep expertise across two key industries: Gaming and Cybersecurity. He is driven by a passion for innovation, operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and the creation of frictionless, scalable processes that support sustainable growth.

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Presentation at GenAI Summit 4

Benchmarking AI Cyber Agents: Insights from the Hack The Box Neurogrid competition

This talk will examine how Hack The Box is transitioning from human-only cyber mastery to an era where AI agents operate, compete and increasingly act autonomously under human oversight. We will explore what prompted this shift, what we have learned so far about AI performance in offensive and defensive tasks, and how these findings are reshaping how we design, evaluate, and advance cyber capabilities. We will also share preliminary insights from Neurogrid CTF, an MCP-only experiment featuring 36 handcrafted scenarios across 9 categories, created to benchmark AI agents inside a controlled competitive environment.