When Brigadier-General and chief information security officer Dror Kashti was assigned to lead the digital transformation efforts of the Israel Defense Force (IDF), he discovered a gaping hole: Existing cloud…
Details
Imagine a scenario where the Internet, mobile services and Netflix were all disrupted on a regular basis. How long could that go on before Americans would say to their government,…
Details
Cybersecurity performance management pioneer Sivan Tehila wants to make CISOs heroes, not scapegoats. Her company, Onyxia, leverages artificial intelligence to automatically measure risks in a dynamic security landscape and recommend…
Details
For Ebba Blitz, CEO of encryption service company AlertSec, running a technology company is not much different from her sailing across the Atlantic in 2000, when she didn’t see land…
Details
The proverbial bike shop Chad Boeckmann, CEO and founder of TrustMAPP, believes that security leaders are the driving force to innovative solutions becoming successful. “Ultimately CISOs vote with their dollars…
Details
Scaling mountains It’s no coincidence that Pravin Madhani’s company K2 was named after the second-highest mountain in the world. “Imagine looking at a mountain from the base,” he says. “You…
Details
Vulcan CEO Yaniv Bardayan has a special standard for hiring members of his team. “I don’t just hire anyone,” he says. “I look for people who are 20 times smarter, 20 times more talented and 20…
Details
Many cybersecurity startups in Israel share a similar vision: To become so successful and promising that a bigger entity would acquire it. This was not what Adi Dar had in…
Details
Leaps of faith When people think of Craigslist, they probably think about second-hand furniture, apartment rentals, odd jobs. But in 2016, when Arun Buduri was searching for a contract job…
Details
Ilan Barda is the founder and CEO of Radiflow, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructure networks (i.e. SCADA), such as power utilities, oil & gas, water and…
Details
My job is simple,” says Manish Kalia, co-founder and CEO of cloud cybersecurity firm Orkus. “I have to make sure that the organization is going in the right direction.” The…
Details
As a young boy in India, Ameesh Divatia was intrigued by technology. He distinctly remembers gazing at National Geographic Magazine, with the photo of a microchip on the cover. And…
Details