Bar leads security research at Lasso Security, bringing 7+ years of experience in the security field. His expertise spans mobile and web applications, reverse engineering, supply chain attacks, and various other security domains. Currently, Bar is focusing on Large Language Model (LLM) security, exploring the unique vulnerabilities and challenges in this emerging field. He has shared his knowledge as a speaker at prestigious industry events, including the OWASP Global Conference 2024 and multiple BSides conferences.
Ophir Dror
Co-Founder & CPO, Lasso Security
Ophir is a security and product leader with over a decade of experience in startups and enterprises. He’s spent his career building security tools, leading product teams, and working on AI-based systems. As the founder of Lasso Security, Ophir focuses on security research and developing ways to secure large language models usage and applications.
Adrian Tiron
Co-Founder of FORTBRIDGE & Principal Consultant
Adrian Tiron – Principal Consultant & Co-Founder of FORTBRIDGE Adrian Tiron is the Principal Consultant and Co-Founder of FORTBRIDGE, bringing 20 years of experience in cybersecurity. He has a proven track record of securing top companies across the UK, US, and Europe. A Jack-of-All-Trades in the security space, Adrian has discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in both open-source and commercial software, contributing to enhancing global cybersecurity standards.
Maor Abutbul
Vulnerability Researcher, CyberArk Labs
Maor Abutbul is a Vulnerability Researcher at CyberArk Labs with about 20 years of experience in the Network & Security fields. Loves constantly evolving, playing CTFs and implementing learned methods in his research. Prior to joining CyberArk, Maor worked as a senior security researcher at CYMOTIVE Technologies where he led and conducted security research projects for various automotive vendors. In addition, Maor possesses an engineering degree and a master's degree in communication systems engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Yarden Shafir
Vulnerability Researcher, Vigilant Labs
Yarden is a vulnerability researcher at Vigilant Labs and a consultant for Winsider Seminars & Solutions Inc.,co-teaching security trainings. Previously she worked at Trail of Bits, CrowdStrike and SentineOne, working on EDR features and Windows research. Outside of her primary work duties, Yarden writes articles and tools and gives talks about various topics such as Pool internals, CET internals, extension host hooking and kernel exploit mitigations. Outside of infosec, Yarden is a circus artist, formerly teaching and performing aerial arts.
Tomer Goldschmidt
Vulnerability Researcher, Claroty Team82
Tomer Goldschmidt is a vulnerability researcher at Claroty Team82. Tomer specializes in vulnerability research, Embedded research, network forensics and ICS/SCADA security
Arad Cohen
Security Researcher & Lecturer
Arad has over 7 years of experience in security research and development, with a strong expertise in a wide range of technologies. Always eager to learn, Arad enjoys exploring new tech and keeping up with industry trends. In addition to his technical skills, he serves as a Team Leader and a Mentor in the 'Magshimim' program, where he mentors and guides future tech professionals
Omer Nevo
Co-founder & CTO, Pattern Labs
Omer is a researcher with over 20 years of experience, most of it in either AI, cybersecurity or some combination of both. At Pattern Labs, Omer is working on assessing and mitigating cybersecurity risks both from and to AI models.
Previously, Omer led an AI research team at Google, founded and sold an AI startup, and set a computer on fire by accident. Twice.
Netanel Ben Simon
Senior Security Researcher, Microsoft
Netanel Ben-Simon has been a security researcher for over seven years. He specializes in low-level vulnerability research, fuzzing & Exploitation on various platform types such as Windows, Linux, and Embedded Devices. Over the past year, he has conducted in-depth vulnerability research on different UEFI components with a focus on Windows security posture around the boot environment, bug hunting and mitigations.
Meir Bloya
Security Researcher, Microsoft
Meir Bloya is a seasoned Security Researcher with over a decade of experience in low-level vulnerability research, security architecture, cryptologic systems, and embedded devices. His work encompasses advanced system research, focusing on low-level like boot, Hyper-V, SoC, and related areas. He has recently conducted in-depth research on UEFI components to strengthen boot security.
Avi Lumelsky
AI Security Researcher at CTO Office, Oligo Security
Avi Lumelsky is a security researcher with strong engineering and AI skills. At Oligo Security, he works on securing AI infrastructure and has uncovered key vulnerabilities in many open-source AI projects. Previously, he served as a Deep Learning Software Architect at Deci AI—now part of NVIDIA—focusing on model optimization. His work has led to reports for Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and others, and has been featured in Forbes and Hacker News. Passionate about low-level systems, Avi maintains open-source projects in eBPF and loves exploring vulnerabilities in AI frameworks and inference servers.
Gal Elbaz
CTO and co-founder, Oligo Security
Gal is the co-founder and CTO at Oligo Security, bringing over a decade of experience in vulnerability research and ethical hacking. He previously served as a Senior Security Researcher at Check Point, specializing in vulnerability research and exploitation. Gal's passion for cybersecurity began during his time in the IDF, where he honed his skills as a security researcher and engineer. Gal spends his free time playing in Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions, constantly honing his cybersecurity skills
Ori David
Security Researcher, Akamai
Ori David is a security researcher at Akamai. Coming from an offensive security background, his research focuses on uncovering attack surfaces exposed by popular products, and finding ways to abuse them.
Inbar Raz
VP of Research
Inbar has been teaching and lecturing about Internet Security and Reverse Engineering for nearly as long as he has been doing that himself. He started programming at the age of 9 and Reverse Engineering at the age of 14. He spent most of his career in InfoSec, and the only reason he's not in jail right now is because he chose the right side of the law at an early age. Inbar specializes in an outside-the-box approach to analyzing security and finding vulnerabilities, using his extensive experience of close to 30 years. Nowadays, Inbar is the VP of Research at Zenity, the leading platform for securing Business-led Development with AI Agents, Enterprise Copilots and Low-Code/No-Code development.
Liz McQuillan
Principal Research Data Scientist, Google
Liz McQuillan is a Principal Research Data Scientist at Google, where she leads efforts to understand and combat online/offline adversarial behavior. She develops tooling and NLP and network analysis methods to track and mitigate propaganda, hate speech, hacktivism and influence operations online. Liz has published research and spoken at conferences around the world on the content dynamics of conspiratorial communities, modeling causality in complex social systems, applications of AI/ML for cyber threat intelligence, and the role of language in shaping online influence and trust. Prior to Google, Liz was a Research Scientist and then Director of Applied Science at Graphika where she contributed to programs like DARPA SemaFor and DARPA Ground Truth, she has also independently advised companies and government agencies on applications of AI/ML for understanding and mitigating adversarial actors online. Liz is particularly interested in the real-world impacts of online extremism and influence, and the potential for data-driven solutions to address these critical challenges.
Christopher Glyer
Technical Director, Threat Intelligence, Microsoft
Christopher Glyer is a Technical Director with Microsoft Threat Intelligence, where he oversees the strategic direction and execution of threat intelligence initiatives. In this role, he leads the technical strategy for a team of experts dedicated to identifying, analyzing, and mitigating advanced cyber threats. Christopher's work involves collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance Microsoft's security posture and protect customers from emerging threats.
Before his current role, Christopher led Microsoft's intelligence response to cybercrime, human-operated ransomware, and extortion. Prior to his tenure at Microsoft, he was the Chief Security Architect at FireEye, where he led a team of technical architects. His team supported FireEye engineering with digital forensics and incident response expertise, driving research and development that resulted in significant product advancements. Christopher also co-hosted the "State Of The Hack" podcast & video series, providing valuable insights into the cybersecurity landscape.
Yonatan Zunger
Corporate Vice President and Deputy CISO, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft
Yonatan Zunger is Microsoft’s Deputy CISO and CVP of AI Safety and Security. He spent much of his career at Google, where after running teams like high-capacity search and planet-scale storage, he ended up as CTO of Social. This meant becoming Google's "Department of Weird Stuff," ultimately on the hook for (among other things) problems of security, privacy, abuse, harassment, policy, and responsible AI for Google+, News, Blogger, and much more, and helping to shape those still-nascent fields. Later on, he worked on things like the Google Assistant, and ultimately co-lead "privacy" (used there as a bracket term for all of the above) for the company. After a few years at startup Humu, where he owned an even more bewildering assortment of roles (including compliance and legal), he spent two years at Twitter as general "fixer of problems." Alas, some problems are beyond mortal intervention, which brought him to Microsoft, where his focus today is figuring out how to make generative AI safe, secure, and a net positive for society.
Benjamin Delpy `gentilkiwi`
Head of CyberSecurity Services, Banque de France
Benjamin Delpy, is a security researcher known as `gentilkiwi`. A Security enthusiast, he publishes tools and articles that speak about products’ weaknesses and prove some of his ideas. Mimikatz was the first software he developed that reached an international audience. It is now recognized as a Windows security audit tool. He previously spoke at PHDays, ASFWS, StHack, BlackHat, BlueHat and many more.
Time to time and in addition to mimikatz, he publishes tools & methods like kekeo but also around NFC systems.
Efim Hudis
VP and CTO, Microsoft
Efim Hudis is the CTO of Microsoft's Israel R&D Center and Vice President in Microsoft Security division. During more than 20 years career in Microsoft Efim Hudis contributed to numerous innovative products and initiatives. He initiated and provided technical leadership to products such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, IoT Security and is currently leading Security for AI and several other strategic initiatives. Efim Hudis holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Physics from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Before joining Microsoft he was a scientist (Technion and John Hopkins University), engineer, educator, consultant and entrepreneur – each in a different technical field.
Elisha Eshed
Elisha Eshed, Co-Founder, Botanica Software labs
Elisha Eshed is a software engineer, security researcher, and consultant with over 18 years of experience in offensive and defensive security. He is the co-founder of Botanica Technologies, a Tel Aviv-based software research company that partners with some of the most prestigious startups to help them build a deep technological edge through low-level engineering, reverse engineering, and cryptographic R&D. Previously, he led research at Skycure (acquired by Symantec) and served as an officer in the Israeli Intelligence Corps.
Yair Netzer
Principal Security Research, Microsoft
Yair is a principal security research manager at Microsoft, working as part of the Edge & Platform Security Fundamentals organization. Yair manages 3 security research teams, focusing on AI, cloud, and platform security. Yair’s group mission is to secure Microsoft products all up, from ROM all the way to the cloud services, for both enterprise and client use cases. Before Microsoft, Yair spent 14 years at Intel, as a security researcher, and later as a security manager - within the CSME firmware team, reviewing the root of trust for all Intel shipped products.
Edan Zwick
Security Research, Microsoft
Edan is a security researcher for Microsoft, mainly working on MDE's threat coverage and attack disruption capabilities.
Nimrod Gideon Roimy
Principal Security Research, Microsoft
Nimrod Roimy is a Principal Security Researcher at Microsoft with nearly a decade of experience in information security. He began his career in the Israeli Air Force’s elite Ofek unit, where he specialized in defensive security. Renowned for his expertise as a "posture ninja" and his innovative projects, Nimrod leads a dedicated team focused on protecting critical assets and advancing device discovery. In his role, he designs robust research architectures, conducts comprehensive posture landscape analyses, and develops cutting-edge algorithms. Additionally, Nimrod is instrumental in creating methodological and scalable detection systems that strengthens organizational security.
Inbar Badian
Principal Product Strategy Team Lead, Microsoft
Inbar Badian, Principal Product Strategy Team Lead at Microsoft Security's Office of the CTO, drives strategic product incubations and innovative efforts, combining cutting-edge technologies to expand and innovate Microsoft security products and tools. With a diverse background spanning intelligence, startups, and corporate leadership, Inbar spearheads global initiatives shaping the future of cybersecurity, leveraging emerging tech such as AI and Quantum. Additionally, Inbar is the Head of the Microsoft Quantum-Safe Program (QSP). Collaborating with a cross-company team of experts and global network of stakeholders, Inbar and the team advance comprehensive approaches and solutions to Post-Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Safety, aiming to ensure the security and resilience of Microsoft, its customers, partners, and ecosystems against potential quantum computing threats to classical encryption.
Yoni Rozenshein
Security Researcher, Pattern Labs
Yoni is an experienced security researcher and software engineer, interested in OS internals, cryptography, mathematics, and AI. At Pattern Labs, Yoni researches AI safety, focusing on assessing cyber risks, evaluating dangerous capabilities, and finding ways to mitigate the upcoming AI cyber apocalypse. Previously, Yoni has worked at Guardicore (acquired by Akamai), developing Windows drivers and Linux kernel modules for advanced network security products - and consequently, debugging many blue screens and kernel panics.
Eden Katz
Security Researcher
Eden Katz is an experienced cybersecurity researcher, specializing in cloud security, incident response, and threat hunting. As a senior professional in the cybersecurity field, Eden has a proven track record of securing complex environments, conducting in-depth threat analyses, and driving proactive security strategies. Her expertise spans cloud infrastructure, AI security, and adversary techniques, with a focus on emerging threats in modern enterprise ecosystems. Beyond her technical work, Eden is an active mentor and educator, co-leading programs like MentoRiot to empower women entering the cybersecurity industry. She’s also a core member in the Hackeriot community, where she shares knowledge, conducts technical interviews, and supports the next generation of security professionals. A dynamic speaker, Eden regularly presents at industry conferences, sharing insights on cloud security, AI-driven threats, and practical defense strategies. Passionate about bridging the gap between technical depth and real-world application, she’s committed to making cybersecurity knowledge accessible, actionable, and impactful.
Hai Vaknin
Principal Security Researcher, Varonis
My name is Hai Vaknin, and I’ve been in the cybersecurity field for the past 10 years. I work as a security researcher at Varonis, focusing on vulnerability research and threat analysis. I actively contribute to projects like LOLBAS and CVE discovery. Lately, I’ve been diving into Azure security—and let’s just say, it’s been a bumpy ride.
Yohan Guez
Principal LLM Applied Researcher, Seal Security
Yohan is a Principal LLM Applied Researcher at Seal Security, leading GenAI research from ideation to deployment. He has automated backporting tasks using LLMs, saving the company significant costs. Previously, he worked at Palo Alto Networks as a Principal Data Scientist, focusing on LLM and machine learning applications in cybersecurity. His expertise includes deploying ML models for malware analysis, leveraging NLP, deep learning, and clustering techniques to enhance cybersecurity defenses. At Check Point, he improved core security products and introduced innovative visualization techniques for malware analysis. With a background in finance and quantitative trading strategies, he brings a unique perspective to AI-driven cybersecurity. He is passionate about advancing cyber defense through LLM technologies.
Sapir Federovsky
Security Researcher
Sapir is a security researcher specializing in identity security. Passionate about understanding how identity works, she spends her time exploring the depths of Active Directory and Entra—uncovering security risks, attack techniques, and ways to defend against them.
Dor Amit
Co-Founder & CTO, 10Root
Dor Amit Co-Founder & CTO of 10Root Cyber Security White Hacker and Security researcher with over 20~ years’ experience.
Shaked Ilan
Principal Security Researcher, Microsoft
Shaked is a versatile security research leader with extensive experience and business acumen. At Microsoft, he focuses on Security Exposure Management. He has over a decade of experience leading teams in offensive & defensive security, cloud security, and attack path analysis. Previously, he was Director of Product Management at Orca Security, focusing on k8 security, data security, exposure management, Cloud detection and response, attack graphs and paths, cloud security posture, and vulnerability management. Prior roles include VP of Research & Product at Firedome, and leadership positions at Yin Yang Cyber and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. His expertise spans OS, network, web, cloud, and embedded (I/OT) security.
Itay Peled
Senior Security Research PM, Microsoft
Itay is a Senior Security Research Program Manager at Microsoft, leading the development of advanced AI models and AI agents to enhance Microsoft’s security tools. With over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, specialized in SOC operations and security consulting, focusing on risk mitigation and innovative solutions
Tal Georgey
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Tal Georgey, Group Manager at Microsoft Security's Office of the CTO, leads a new security product that combines cutting-edge technologies and integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft portfolio. Tal has diverse experience in the cyber domain, including a long tenure with the Government of Israel where he held several leadership positions before joining Microsoft.
Orel Siso
Senior Threat Intelligence analyst, Microsoft
Orel Siso is a Senior Threat Intel Analyst at Microsoft, with extensive experience in threat intelligence, APT research, and cybersecurity. Orel has held significant roles, such as leading a threat intelligence team at INCD, where she played a key role in strengthening national cyber defenses through the identification and analysis of sophisticated threat actor activity. Her background in Network Security Consulting and CISO Services provides a unique perspective on translating intelligence into effective defense strategies.