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This list showcases the top Israel based COO’ operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ofer Brown
COO of NsKnox
Ofer Brown is the COO at NsKnox.
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About NsKnox: NsKnox Technologies is a Fintech – Security company, revolutionizing the way organizations would protect themselves.
Netanel Amar
Co-Founder, COO at Cynet – Autonomous Breach Protection of Cynet
Netanel Amar is a Co-Founder & COO at Cynet.
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About BugSec, Cynet: Cynet is an autonomous breach protection platform that provides a single, enterprise-grade solution for the internal network.
Sharon Nakash
COO of Cymulate
Sharon Nakash serves as the Chief Operation Officer at Cymulate.
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About Cymulate: Cymulate enables companies to challenge, assess and optimize their cybersecurity posture against evolving threats, simply and continuously.
Ariel Parnes
Co-Founder & COO of Mitiga
Ariel Parnes is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer at Mitiga.
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About Mitiga: Mitiga is the cloud-based solution for Incident Readiness and Response in cloud and hybrid environments.
Josh Lawrence
Co-Founder and COO of Strattic
Biz Dev & Sales leader, 10+ years of founding and building companies. Founding team at TalentTribe, where he created 150+ partnerships with companies like Google, SimilarWeb, Fiverr & Wix.
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About Strattic: Strattic converts CMS-based websites into serverless versions, making them faster, scalable, and virtually unhackable.
Idan Didi
COO & CO-FOUNDER of Spectral
Idan Didi is the COO & Co-founder of Spectral. Previously CEO and Co-Founder of Swiftic (Conduit subsidiary )
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About Spectral, Spectral: Spectral is an Israeli startup and key innovator in developer-first security tools designed by developers for developers.
Guy Hatarsi
COO & Co-Founder of Quantum Integrity
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About Quantum Integrity: Quantum Integrity secures your cyber communications by detecting manipulations and potential forgeries in digital images and media.
Yisrael Gross
Co-Founder, Director, COO, and BIZ DEV of L7 Defense
Yisrael Gross is the Co-Founder, Director, COO, and business development of L7 Defense.
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About L7 Defense: L7 Defense has developed Ammune™, an advanced AI/ML solution that protects APIs INLINE
Segev Hochberg
Co-Founder & COO of PPC Protect
My interest in cybersecurity and cyber intelligence started as a systems engineer in the Israel Defense Forces. Fast forward several years and I’m now COO & co-founder at PPC Protect, an advertising fraud prevention platform utilising real time cybersecurity and cyber intelligence to fight off internet fraudsters. Since founding the company with my three co-founders in 2016 we have grown to become one of the leading click fraud prevention solutions thanks to our innovative, cyber-security driven approach to tackling the $50bn a year problem. I now manage the day to day operations for the 15 staff across the PPC Protect organisation, ensuring appropriate processes and workflows are in place to drive our ambitious growth targets. I’m also responsible for the day to day hiring & recruitment operations within the organisation. To find out more about PPC Protect, or to apply for our currently open positions, feel free to drop me an email at [email protected]
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About PPC Protect: Reduce CPAs, improve PPC performance and remove invalid users from your entire PPC funnel.
Haviv Ohayon
COO & Co – Founder of Suridata.ai
Haviv Ohayon is the COO & Co-founder at Suridata.
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About Suridata.ai: Suridata is a data-centric SaaS Security Posture Management company
Dudu Jansenson
Founder and COO of Cyrebro
Dudu Jansenson is the founder and COO at CyberHat.
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About Cyrebro: Cyrebro is a Cloud-based security operation platform that provides threat analytics and management solutions.
Ofer Gaist
COO and Founder of Nyotron
Ofer Gaist is the COO and Founder at Nyotron.
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About Nyotron: Nyotron provides the industry’s first OS-Centric Positive Security to strengthen endpoint protection.
Chen Cohen
Co-Founder & COO of SensePass
Chen Cohen is the Co-Founder and COO at SensePass.
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About SensePass: SensePass is a secure communication and identification platform for wireless communication between the bank’s app and any device or service.
Flair Bar
COO of Sternum
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About Sternum: Sternum builds a holistic, highly scalable endpoint security solution for IoT devices, that prevents attacks in real time.
Miri Yudovich
Chief Operating Officer & Co Founder of SafeHouse
Miri Yudovich is the Co-Founder and COO of Safehouse Technologies.
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About SafeHouse: SafeHouse provides military-grade cyber security for enterprise and government.
Asaf Bergerbaum
COO of InnoSec
Asaf is a security expert and former CISO of several financial institutions and has acted as a CISO advisor for Amdocs, Phillips and other Israeli companies. He is responsible for customer implementations of the STORM Framework. He is a SME in compliance. SIEM, DLP, BCP/DR and forensics. Asaf has concentrated his career on risk assessment and development methodologies, vulnerability audits and penetration tests/ InfoSec architecture and hands-on skills (Network, System and Application) and InfoSec forensics.
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About InnoSec: InnoSec is a software manufacturer of cyber risk management technology.