Emily Choi-Greene
Emily Choi-Greene is the CEO and co-founder of Clearly AI, a YC-backed startup automating security and privacy reviews. Previously, she oversaw application security for Amazon's Alexa AI organization and owned data security and privacy at Moveworks (an enterprise AI assistant).
Her work focuses on building reliable AI-powered AppSec tools that go beyond hype to deliver consistent, trustworthy results. Emily’s research tackles the real-world challenges of integrating generative AI into secure development workflows—from threat modeling and design reviews to code scanning and policy validation. She has presented her work at fwd:CloudSec and joins BSides Vancouver Island to share practical strategies for building robust security automation systems that scale. When she’s not wrangling LLMs, she’s advocating for thoughtful, secure-by-default engineering practices across the industry.
2025 Talk
Talk Title: Beyond Vibe Coding: Building Reliable AI AppSec Tools
Talk Abstract:
As organizations explore AI automation for AppSec, ensuring reliable and trustworthy output is critical. This talk examines practical challenges in building AI systems that can consistently interpret security requirements, process engineering documentation, and produce high quality threat models and code scanning results.
We'll explore technical approaches to prevent hallucinations, handle conflicting documentation, normalize AI outputs, and validate assessments against established policies. We'll share key patterns for building robust security automation systems that maintain high accuracy while scaling across engineering organizations. We'll walk through one specific example, from design reviews & threat modeling to secure code reviews & scan analysis.