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Yuval Ben-Itzhak | |
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 Keynote at the 2014 Mobile World Congress | |
| Born | Israel |
| Alma mater | Ben-Gurion University, B.Sc Information systems, Management & Industrial Engineering (Cum Laude) |
| Occupation | Chief Executive Officer at Socialbakers |
Yuval Ben-Itzhak is an executive and entrepreneur. He received a number of honors and public recognition for his work as a Chief Technology Officer throughout his career. Ben-Itzhak has been selected as the 25 most influencing CTO[1] by InfoWorld, 40 Innovative IT People To Watch [2] by ComputerWorld and 2017 Chief Technology Officer of the Year [1] by GeekTime. He is frequently quoted in the media and has been interviewed on television and radio programs. He was the Chief Technology Officer at AVG [3] and was part of the leadership team that took AVG through its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012. He was the Chief Technology Officer at Outbrain until 2017 and now is the Chief Executive Officer at Socialbakers .
Early life
Ben-Itzhak was born and raised in Israel.
Ben-Itzhak earned B.Sc Information systems, Management & Industrial Engineering (Cum Laude) from Ben-Gurion University in Israel.
Career
2017–Present: Chief Executive Officer, Socialbakers
2015–2017: Chief Technology Officer, Outbrain
2009–2015: Chief Technology Officer, AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG)
2005-2009: Chief Technology Officer, Finjan Inc.[4]
2000-2004: Chief Technology Officer, Founder, KaVaDo Inc.[5]
1998-2000: Chief Technology Officer, Ness Technologies[6] (Nasdaq: NSTC)
1994-1996: Software development & management, Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC)
1988-1992: Intelligence services, IDF
Awards
2017 - Chief Technology Officer of the Year [2] by GeekTime
2007 - 40 Innovative IT People To Watch by ComputerWorld
2004 - Top 25 Most Influential CTOs [3] by InfoWorld
Inventor of the Following Patents
- US 9,525,680 - Splitting an SSL connection between gateways
- US 9,514,477 - Systems and methods for providing user-specific content on an electronic device
- US 9,424,422 - Detection of rogue software applications
- US 9,294,493 - Computer security method and system with input parameter validation
- US 9,288,226 - Detection of rogue software applications
- US 9,280,391 - Systems and methods for improving performance of computer systems
- US 9,110,595 - Systems and methods for enhancing performance of software applications
- US 9,058,612 - Systems and methods for recommending software applications
- US 8,769,690 - Protection from malicious web content
- US 8,732,831 - Detection of rogue software applications
- US 8,566,580 - Splitting an SSL connection between gateways
- US 8,141,154 - System and method for inspecting dynamically generated executable code
- US 8,087,079 - Byte-distribution analysis of file security
- US 8,015,182 - System and method for appending security information to search engine results
- US 7,930,299 - System and method for appending security information to search engine results
- US 7,882,555 - Application layer security method and system
- US 7,757,289 - System and method for inspecting dynamically generated executable code
- US 7,614,085 - Method for the automatic setting and updating of a security policy
- US 7,613,918 - System and method for enforcing a security context on a downloadable
- US 7,313,822 - Application-layer security method and system
Web Application Security
Ben-Itzhak is an inventor of Web Application Firewall[5] & Scanner[7] technologies, back in 2000 when he founded KaVaDo, an early entrant to the web application security[8] market.
He joined Mark Curphey and other industry veterans to start OWASP in 2001. OWASP came to be the de facto standard in application security. Later he co-founded the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC)
Media References
USAToday
- Google searchers could end up with a new type of bug
- Cybercriminals rewriting bank statements
- Scareware's pitches for fake security show up in odd places
- Millions of Web pages are hacker landmines
- Internet thieves make big money stealing corporate info
- Data scams have kicked into high gear as markets tumble
Financial Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
BBC
- Protecting users from themselves
- Kids 'using coding skills to hack' friends on games, expert says
- Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'
- For Sale: Cheap access to corporate computers
Sky News
San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate)
CBSNews
References
- ^ 25 most influencing CTO Archived December 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 40 Innovative IT People To Watch Archived March 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ AVG Technologies
- ^ Finjan Inc.
- ^ a b Web Application Firewall
- ^ Ness Technologies
- ^ Scanner
- ^ web application security