Ezgi Arslan, PhD.
Ezgi is an industry analyst at AIMultiple.
Research focus at AIMultiple
- AI agent applications in finance where she combines her finance expertise with emerging AI tools.
- Sustainability where she relies on her academic research background.
- Procurement technologies where she bases upon her experience in finance.
- Surveys and sentiment analysis for user insights where she rests on her academic experience.
- Network security, including firewalls, firewall management, and orchestration where she applies her industry analysis experience.
Professional experience
Ezgi worked both in academia and the industry before:- Çankaya University as Part-time Teaching Staff
- TED Ankara College as Education Support Specialist
- TED University as Teaching Assistant
- AKFEN Holding Inc. as Finance Specialist
Education
Graduated with a PhD. from the Department of Business and Administration at Bilkent University.
Academic publications
- Arslan ETanyeri-Günsür B. (2025). Ambitious sons and understanding daughters: investor perceptions of gender and the valuation of family firms". Gender in Management: An International Journal, 1-22, DOI: 10.1108/GM-11-2024-0636.
- Alp, E. (2024). An Examination of Factors in Financial Asset Valuation. Nişantaşı Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 12 (Special Issue), 60-72. DOI: 52122/nisantasisbd.1467788.
- Tanyeri A. B., and Alp E. (2023). Law as an external governance mechanism: valuation of family firms in countries with differing judicial protection of shareholder rights. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 1-22, DOI: 10.1111/corg.12484.
Conference presentations
- Alp, E. (2023) Impact of the Corporate Sustainability Performance on Financial Performance and the Institutional Shift Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Türkiye. In: ICGS 2023 CGIR Junior Scholar Consortium and Paper Development Workshop – held in Madrid, Spain on October 20, 2023.
- Alp, E. (2023) The Effect of Corporate Sustainability Activities of Financial Performance. In: 1. Conference of Economics and Society – held in Ankara, Türkiye on December 6-7, 2023.
- Alp, E. (2022) Shareholder activism, and organizational form. In: 19TH EIASM Workshop on Corporate Governance – held in Strasbourg, France on November 8-9, 2022.
- Alp, E., and Tanyeri A. B. (2021). Gender perceptions of investors and the valuation of family firms. In: RENT 2021 Conference – XXXV Research in Entrepreneurship Conference – held in Turku, Finland on November (17) 18-19, 2021.
- Alp, E. (2020). Value of Shareholder Voting Rights and Family Firm Related Mechanisms. In: 3rd AEM and TIM PHD Programs-Joint Paper Development Online Workshop, Bergamo on May 25-26, 2020.
Latest Articles from Ezgi
WAF Solutions: Benchmark-Based Comparison
With two decades of industry experience and market data showing that nearly half of breaches begin with web applications, we manually tested three leading WAFs (Cloudflare, Imperva, Barracuda) against real attack traffic by creating a test site and targeting it with common web threats, broken access control, injection, and vulnerable and outdated components. See a…
7 Network Security Use Cases
Network security protects the systems, traffic, and accounts that run an organization. We examine seven network security use cases each a real-world example, ranging from detecting insider threats to managing privileged access. Malicious insiders account for a large share of reported security incidents, making it hard to distinguish normal activity from harmful activity, since these…
Agentic AI for Cybersecurity: 10 Use Cases & Examples
Agentic AI refers to AI systems that combine models like large language models (LLMs) with automated workflows, tool integration, and decision support. These systems assist security teams in SecOps and AppSec by analyzing alerts, automating routine tasks, and supporting investigative work. Explore structured, real-world use cases of agentic AI in cybersecurity, as well as what…
Top 15 Accounting AI Agents
Tools like Dext, AutoEntry, and Hubdoc have automated data extraction and transaction posting. But these systems are fundamentally still rule-based, often requiring accountants to jump between spreadsheets. Thus, after reviewing the documentation and watching demos, we picked the top 15 AI-based accounting agents: The demos below show how accounting agents handle different tasks. In this…
Top Emotion AI Tools Tested
We tested 12 vision-capable large language models on 70 labeled face photographs, five times each, to assess how accurately they identify the emotion on a human face. The highest score is 67%, no two models in the test are statistically distinguishable, and the cohort reads anger at 22%. In addition, we explore ten leading emotion…
Top 10 Free USB Blocking Software
Data loss prevention software uses USB blocking to prevent data breaches by blocking data exfiltration via USB drives and other removable storage devices. Control over peripheral devices, such as USBs, includes whitelisting and blacklisting, authorizing read-only access, and enforcing predefined policy rules. If you are looking for a USB blocking software solution that can support…
Top 5 ZTNA Open Source Components
ZTNA is replacing VPNs in many organizations as part of a broader move toward zero-trust security. ZTNA open-source tools offer a cost-effective way to authorize access at each layer, securing remote access to resources. Explore the top 5 ZTNA open source solutions: For businesses See also the key considerations for selecting a ZTNA solution, and…
Handwriting Recognition Benchmark with 14 LLMs & OCRs
OCR tools achieve over 99% accuracy on typed text in high-quality images. However, handwriting remains challenging due to variations in style, spacing, and irregularities. We introduce a cursive handwriting recognition benchmark with 100 handwriting samples written by our team to prevent overfitting. In this benchmark, GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and olmOCR-2-7B-1025-FP8 are the top-performing…
Top 10 Free PAM Solutions
There are no plug-and-play free PAM solutions for production environments. A few vendors offer free tools with PAM capabilities for low-scale deployments. Some, such as Devolutions Hub, also have paid business plans with approval workflows and reporting. See free tools based on their level of PAM support: Vault-based tools: For secure credential storage Infrastructure automation…
Top 7 Open Source RMM Software: Pros & Cons
IT teams and managed service providers (MSPs) need remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools to maintain infrastructure health, patch endpoints, respond to alerts, and manage devices at scale. While enterprise-grade closed-source RMM software suits large organizations with dedicated vendor support requirements, open-source options provide the same core functionality without licensing costs and with full access…
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