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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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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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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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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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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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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Ilan Barda, Founder and CEO, Radiflow
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…
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Manish Kalia, CEO and co-founder, Orkus
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…
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Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO, Baffle
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…
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Kamal Shah, CEO, StackRox
Kamal Shah nostalgically remembers playing the Atari game Pong as a boy. It sparked his early passion for technology and set him on course towards a career in computing. His interest in gaming…
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Guy Bejerano, CEO and Co-founder, SafeBreach
Guy Bejerano was all set to be a pilot with the Israeli Air Force, but one week before the start of training, he had a car accident. The course of…
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Kevin Mitnick, CEO, Mitnick Security
Preceded by reputation Kevin Mitnick is perhaps best known as the hacker who made it to the FBI’s Most Wanted List for breaking into the computer systems of multiple government…
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