Lateral movement has been a common factor in breaches, using identity as a universal attack vector to traverse environments unchecked. Organizations must have full visibility of the threat posed by identity and proactively wrap MFA round exposed assets.
CTO and Cofounder at Silverfort
Silverfort’s CTO and Co-Founder Yaron Kassner is a cybersecurity and big data technology expert. Before co-founding Silverfort, Yaron served as a big data expert consultant for Cisco. He also developed new capabilities involving big data analytics and machine learning algorithms at Microsoft. Prior to that Yaron served at the 8200 elite cyber unit of the Israel Defense Forces, where he led a reputable R&D team, raised to the rank of Captain, and received a prestigious excellence award. He is also a mentor on the 8200 alumni program. Yaron holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.