# **Tim Nordvedt**

Senior Manager, North America Solutions Architecture

[LinkedIn profile for Tim Nordvedt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-nordvedt-58250115b/)

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

Synack Research

**Jul 8, 2026** **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.

**[Read more](/content/blog/state-of-vulnerabilities-2026-red-team/index.html)**

Penetration Testing

**Jun 5, 2026** **What I Told Security Leaders at Gartner SRM 2026**

At Gartner SRM 2026 this week I gave a talk called "Cutting Through AI Noise: Defending Against Machine-Speed Cyber Adversaries." The room was full of security leaders who’ve been through enough hype cycles to be skeptical of seeing AI on the label. That skepticism is warranted, and I built the session around it.

**[Read more](/content/blog/gartner-2026-agentic-ai-what-security-leaders-asked/index.html)**

## More research by Tim Nordvedt

Penetration Testing

**Apr 29, 2026** **What GigaOm and Synack Got Right About AI Pentesting**

What Mythos Means for Penetration Testing as a Service When Anthropic announced the Claude Mythos Preview, the reaction from the security community was immediate. We’re not talking about the next best model. This model is such a leap forward and so capable at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities that Anthropic deemed it too dangerous to release

**[Read more](/content/blog/ai-pentesting-gigaom-synack-webinar-agentic-ptaas/index.html)**

Uncategorized

**Apr 7, 2023** **Scoping Adventures: How to Get the Most Out of Your Synack Pentesting**

Scoping Adventures is a series of blogs about some of the more interesting penetration tests that the Synack Customer Success teams have worked on over the last few months. Each blog outlines how we engage with the client to achieve the best results from a pentest.

**[Read more](/content/blog/scoping-adventures-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-synack-pentesting/index.html)**