How do CISOs assess vendor viability? What qualifies new technology as a good investment? How should vendors approach CISOs? Join us for an insightful panel discussion between prominent U.S.-based CISOs and promising Israeli cybersecurity startups!

Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from leading CISOs and industry experts as they take the stage to share their strategic advice and insider perspectives on navigating customer-vendor relationships with cybersecurity startups. 

Ofer Schreiber, Partner and Head of Israel Office at YL Ventures, oversees the firm’s investment processes and due diligence, portfolio companies management and value-add initiatives. Ofer is committed to empowering Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneurs to dominate the global market.

He provides ideation support and strategic guidance to the firm’s portfolio companies and entrepreneurs in its pipeline along with introductions to customers, partners, and investors, and takes on active board roles.

He is instrumental in developing the firm’s robust network within Israel’s cybersecurity ecosystem and regularly speaks, writes, and is featured in interviews about the industry, investment strategies, start-up development, and Israeli cybersecurity innovation. Prior to YL Ventures, Ofer focused on researching and analyzing the technology and venture capital industry at the IVC Research Center. He served in Unit 8200, an elite technological intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces, and holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Dr. Yaniv Harel is the SVP Cyber Defense of Sygnia. Before Sygnia Yaniv was the General Manager of the Cyber Solutions Group at Dell EMC, a global group within Dell Technologies that have provided advanced cyber solutions for customers. Under his leadership the Cyber Solutions Group won, designed, and built significant CERTs and other cyber projects.

Yaniv is an expert of cyber defense in large organizations, as well as at the national level, with years of experience in governmental roles. As part of his service, Yaniv led several technology divisions within the IDF. He was awarded the Israel Presidential Medal for Security in 2002.

In 2011, he founded the Cyber branch in the Ministry of Defense R&D Directorate and was responsible for its expedited growth, running dozens of projects with innovative companies. In his academic capacity, Dr. Harel is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Cyber Center - ICRC at Tel-Aviv University. He assists young start-ups and contributes to several initiatives at the Beer-Sheva Cyber Eco-system. Yaniv holds a BSc in Engineering from the Technion, an MBA from the University of Manchester, and a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University.

Moshe Ferber is an entrepreneur, investor, popular industry speaker and cloud security evangelist. Working on building the next generation of cyber security solutions.

In his 20 years of experience in information security, Moshe served as high ranking manager in large corporations, founder of innovative startups, frequent lecturer at cyber conferences and major contributor to various cloud education programs and certifications.

Boris Cipot is a senior sales engineer at Synopsys. He helps companies of all shapes and sizes to create secure software. Boris joined Synopsys when Black Duck Software was acquired in 2017. He specialises in open source software security, robotics, and artificial intelligence. He has also worked in the cybersecurity field since 2003 in anti-malware software at F-Secure and Avira.

Oz Avenstein is a recognized expert and thought leader in the fields of Application & Cloud security. Providing cyber security services for variety of customers from startups to fortune 500.

Shahar Geiger Maor is a security professional with deep understanding of cyber challenges and wide experience that varies from financial to private sectors. In his current role, Shahar is the CISO of Fiverr, an online marketplace for freelancers.

In his previous roles, Shahar had led processes which helped high-tech companies prepare for future challenges, specifically, by promoting cross company security and compliance. Shahar is also very active with community work as board member at the Israeli chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance and author of various security guidelines and publications.

In the wake of a global virus outbreak, the war rages on – and FraudCON is back!

FraudCON War Stories is a virtual experience consisting of 20-minute episodes that fraud fighters can view live during the event (July 21st) or watch later, binge-style.

FraudCON will focus once more on War Stories – our elite cybercrime warriors will share their gory real-world tales from the trenches, taking us through their fearless expeditions and give us a glimpse into their combat tactics in fighting online financial crime.

Uri Rivner has been fighting online fraud and cyber crime for fifteen years, working closely with major financial institutions on developing long term strategies against cybercrime.

Prior to joining BioCatch as a co-founder and Head of Cyber Strategy, Uri served as Head of New Technologies at security giant RSA, where he was responsible for moving fraud and cybercrime fighting innovations from concept to reality.

He was a key player in the development of Risk-Based Authentication and other fraud and security defenses currently used by thousands of financial institutions and saving billions of dollars in fraud each year.

Romance scams, employment scams, government grant scams, fraud department impersonation scams - name practically any scam, and you can be sure the pandemic made it easier than ever for scammers to trick consumers in 2020. The job loss, isolation and uncertainty experienced by so many caused widespread vulnerability, creating a perfect storm of opportunity for fraudsters all over the world. Most of these scams have common elements that can be tracked by manual and automated processes, and something as simple as implementing preventative training for frontline staff can make a measurable impact in reducing the financial devastation often experienced by scam victims.

While we will never be able to catch it all, there is always room for improvement where fraud mitigation is concerned.

Join me to learn about the anatomy of many of the most successful scams I witnessed last year, why I think they worked so well, and steps industries can take to better protect consumers.

Shannon is a passionate fraud fighting professional with 13 years of experience in fraud mitigation, 20 years in the banking industry and a proven record of significant deposit fraud loss reduction.

She has learned through her various roles how differently fraud can present from one organization to another and how important it is to be adaptable in order to combat new trends. She is especially passionate about fraud education for both consumers and frontline employees and truly enjoys the problem solving involved in this line of work and never pass on an opportunity to share her knowledge with others.