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Yuri Livshitz

Yuri Livshitz

CISO
Ramat Gan

Summary

IT Executive with 6 years of cyber program management and product security experience. Background in successful cyber defense implementation and presentation to key stakeholders. Successfully coordinates cyber compliance and manages corporate and product security.

  • Extensive knowledge of cloud native security.
  • Strong knowledge of incident response and zero trust security architecture.
  • Experienced in management of complex large scale security projects.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Language

Work History

Chief Information Security Officer

ActiveFence
Ramat Gan
01.2022 - Current
  • In charge for security operation of the innovative Trust and Safety SAAS company working to make the internet and social networks a safer palace
  • Built from scratch advanced incident response team for on of the largest fortune-100 technological companies
  • Achieved faster and 40% more efficient compliance for ISO27001 , SOC2 frameworks
  • Created vendor security process and supply chain security process.
  • Developed and led large-scale technology initiatives for long-term strategic plans and solutions.

Chief Information Security Officer

Clarizen (Acquired by Planview)
Tel Aviv
01.2019 - 01.2022
  • Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security.
  • In charge of the security strategy of two SAAS products with yearly ARR of more than 150 million dollars
  • Worked directly on security RPFs with some of largest corporations in Israel and abroad; Amex, Paypal , Amazon, Clal, Bank Hapoalim, JLL and Siemens
  • Lead security team and multiple risk mitigation initiatives, including Beyond Corp, WAF, DDOS mitigation, and API security
  • Managed team of Security and security engineers and compliance experts
  • Started and managed external vulnerability discovery and bug bounty program.


Information Security Engineer

IATA
Tel Aviv
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Leading information security architecture for IATA, including technology and policy
  • Supervised team of four 24/7 Soc security engineers working
  • Worked with the Israeli public sector and government on numerous security projects including cooperation with El-AL, ministry of transportation and Israeli Cyber Directorate ICD
  • Managed the process of analyzing new security tools and technologies to utilize for IATA and in the global aviation industry.

Information Security Engineer

PayPal
Tel Aviv
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • Part of the PayPal Incident response team proactively protecting production system networks, data, and availability
  • In charge of defense for one of the biggest public sites from cyber threats and Hacktivism
  • Performed complex Splunk data research to improve incident response capabilities and create automated threat detection capabilities
  • Information Security mentor and presenter to various departments inside PayPal.

Education

Master of Arts - Cyber Policy

Tel Aviv University
01.2020 - 2022.09

GCIH - GIAC Certified Incident Handler certification -GIAC -

Sans University
01.2015 - 2015.01

CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional -

ISC2

Chief Information Security Officer Certification -

Technion Institute Of Technology
01.2008 - 2009.01

BA -

Tel Aviv University
10.2001 - 2005.03

Skills

Ability to explain complex security topics to CXO-Level and government officialsundefined

Timeline

Chief Information Security Officer

ActiveFence
01.2022 - Current

Master of Arts - Cyber Policy

Tel Aviv University
01.2020 - 2022.09

Chief Information Security Officer

Clarizen (Acquired by Planview)
01.2019 - 01.2022

Information Security Engineer

IATA
01.2016 - 01.2019

GCIH - GIAC Certified Incident Handler certification -GIAC -

Sans University
01.2015 - 2015.01

Information Security Engineer

PayPal
01.2014 - 01.2016

Chief Information Security Officer Certification -

Technion Institute Of Technology
01.2008 - 2009.01

BA -

Tel Aviv University
10.2001 - 2005.03

CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional -

ISC2
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