Empowering Organizations Through AI-Driven Cybersecurity - City of Hats

Empowering Organizations Through AI-Driven Cybersecurity

At City of Hats, we are redefining security operations by merging artificial intelligence with powerful vulnerability management, integrations, and automation.

Our unified platform helps businesses identify threats, prioritize risks, and remediate faster — without unnecessary complexity.

With a modular ecosystem of scanners, plugins, and AI workflows, City of Hats empowers you to take full control of your security stack, optimize response times, and drive continuous improvement.

Our mission is simple: Make world-class cybersecurity accessible, intelligent, and proactive for every organization.

Our Vision

To redefine cybersecurity by empowering organizations of all sizes with AI-driven vulnerability management, unified threat response, and a plug-and-play ecosystem of integrations, plugins, and automation—built for speed, simplicity, and security at scale.

Our Mission

To democratize enterprise-grade cybersecurity by delivering intelligent, automated, and accessible solutions that adapt to every organization's unique attack surface. City of Hats empowers security teams to act faster, fix smarter, and scale securely—through seamless integrations, AI automation, and a unified platform experience.

Meet the team

City of Hats is built by seasoned cybersecurity veterans, AI engineers, and visionaries united by one mission — to simplify and strengthen cyber defense for all.

With decades of global experience across Fortune 500s, federal agencies, and emerging startups, our leadership brings together deep technical expertise and a passion for innovation.

Mario Daigle

CEO & Co-Founder

Mario is a seasoned product management and operations executive with over 25 years of experience in analytics, cloud/SaaS, and cybersecurity. He began his career in the Business Intelligence and Analytics space, leading teams at Cognos before, during, and after its acquisition by IBM in 2008. In 2013, he joined Interset, a Series A startup, to help pivot into cybersecurity. Under his leadership, Interset pioneered a best-of-breed analytic approach for insider and advanced threat detection, forged key partnerships including In-Q-Tel, and achieved a successful exit with its acquisition by Micro Focus in 2019. Most recently, Mario led Enterprise Cybersecurity Engineering and Product Management at OpenText, overseeing solutions in application security, identity and access management, data security, forensics, and threat detection. Startup-minded, Mario is known for making balanced, evidence-based decisions by gathering the most accurate information and context from leading experts.

Franck Le Mauff

CTO & Co-Founder

Franck has over twenty years of experience in cybersecurity, primarily gained within military intelligence. He has led major projects that combine digital transformation with information security while benefiting a diverse clientele. His goal is to empower organizations to fully secure their networks and data through advanced protection strategies and rigorous vulnerability management.

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Our Story

From the Front Lines to a Unified Platform

I've spent the past 30+ years in IT and cybersecurity, working with global leaders like Morgan Stanley, Nomura, PayPal, the FBI, and the Bank of Canada. My journey has taken me across Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, the U.S., and Canada—solving real-world security challenges in organizations of every size and industry.

But despite the diversity of these environments, the problems were always the same:

Too many vulnerabilities to manage effectively
Security teams overwhelmed and under-resourced
An overload of tools—none of them fully connected

One moment stuck with me. During a project, PayPal told me:

"We've been looking for someone like you for eight years. We have thousands of vulnerabilities coming in daily—and we need automation."

That was the tipping point.

I created City of Hats not just as a product, but as a solution I wish I had throughout my career—a unified platform that brings everything together:

It connects your scanners, tools, and data sources
It identifies what truly matters, fast
It automates what slows security teams down
And most importantly—it helps fix what's critical before it's too late

Because we all know: it only takes one missed vulnerability to put everything at risk.

At City of Hats, we're not just building software. We're solving a decades-old problem in a smarter, scalable way—one that helps organizations stay protected without the chaos.

Mario Daigle

CEO & Co-Founder