# Build the security product from an attacker's eye

- Category: product
- Author: Fineas Silaghi (https://indie.md/people/fineas-silaghi/)
- Source: https://indie.md/journeys/fineas-aisafe/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/build-security-from-an-attackers-eye/

Fineas came to AISafe from offensive security: a researcher and CTF player whose habit was to dive into hard systems and find ways to exploit them. Building a security product on top of that background is an advantage, because the person designing it already knows which assumptions break under a real attack and which ones an attacker walks straight through. Founders who only ever read the documentation tend to protect against the threats they can imagine; founders who spent years attacking understand the threats that actually get used. If your edge is knowing how to break something, the strongest product you can build is the one shaped by that exact knowledge.