Arun Buduri, President and Co-founder, Pixm
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…
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Adi Dar, CEO, Cyberbit
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…
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Yaniv Bardayan, CEO, Vulcan
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…
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Pravin Madhani, CEO, K2 Cyber Security
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…
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Chad Boeckmann, CEO and Founder, TrustMAPP
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…
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Ebba Blitz, CEO, AlertSec
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…
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Sivan Tehila, CEO and Founder, Onyxia
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…
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Nadir Izrael, CTO and Co-Founder, Armis
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,…
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Dror Kashti, CEO and Co-Founder, Sweet Security
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…
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Derek Maki, Co-Founder and CPO, Longbow Security
When Derek Maki and Dayne Myers were leading McKinsey and Co.’s Cyber Solutions New Ventures group, CISOs and CIOs were constantly telling them they needed a solution to help drive…
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Ofer Klein, CEO and Co-Founder, Reco
When bad guys started encrypting their data, Gal Nakash and Tal Shapira set out to beat them at their own game. The two cybersecurity experts, then with Israel’s equivalent of…
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Michael Mumcuoglu, CEO and Co-Founder, CardinalOps
For years, cybersecurity veteran Michael Mumcuoglu watched organizations buy more and more great technology, only to see it not being installed or configured properly, leaving them open to undue risk…
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