Against the background of the economic and geopolitical changes in the world, today (Wednesday), the World CISO Forum led by Team8 is launched. The forum, which brings together the top of the cyber industry, will be attended by more than 100 senior information security managers at the world’s leading companies, including: Walmart, Uniliver, GM Financial, Intuit, Mastercard and more.
The forum will discuss future cyber security executives with an emphasis on global challenges and opportunities, the impact of economic and geopolitical changes on the cyber industry in various areas such as cloud security, OT, IT, 5G, privacy, regulation and change starting with attack strategies and attackers. The security managers will meet with a number of entrepreneurs, investors and prominent businessmen in the Israeli high-tech industry, and at the end, they will take part in the opening event of the Israeli Cyber Week.
The forum discussions will begin on Wednesday, 22.06 for five days, and will include in-depth discussions on the challenges of the period and solutions tailored to the period, as well as on the growing importance of the CISO role and their impact on the organization’s business strategy. During their visit to Israel, they will meet with leading Israeli startups, including: Claroty, Sygnia, Talon, Akeyless, Illusive, Cyberpion, Silverfort, Authomize, Cardinal, Orca Security, Ermetic, Safebreach, Resilion in order to expose them to Israeli technologies. In addition, they will participate in dinners and receptions with prominent entrepreneurs, investors and businessmen in the Israeli high-tech industry hosted by various industry organizations.
The Team8 Group’s CISO Village is an important part of the group’s unique model for building companies, and is significant in the process of ideas and research for the companies’ technological solutions, helps adapt the products to the market and contributes greatly to the growth of Team8’s portfolio companies. The Village is based on the rationale that the cooperation with the leading companies in the world will generate business opportunities for all parties and will help identify the real problems and needs of the large organizations, which will provide a technological solution for the companies that will be established to create these solutions.
The end of this conference will coincide with the official opening event of Tel Aviv University’s Cyber Week in Israel, which will take place from June 27-30. The event will be hosted by Team8 along with other industry partners; Deloitte, Leumi-Tech, Meitar Law Office, Valley Bank, Palo Alto and FinSec Mastercard and Enel Innovation Lab.
Speakers at the event include Renee Wayne, former NASA security director, Mike Rogers, former NSA chief and Team8 partner, Nadav Tzafrir, former 8200 unit commander and managing partner in Team8, and Nir Minervi, CEO and founder of Computing Startup Quantum, Classiq. The event will be moderated by the actress, Niv Sultan, known for her role as a cyber hacker in the Tehran series.
Nadav Tzafrir, Managing Partner of Team8: “In recent weeks we have witnessed significant changes characterized by de-globalization and economic slowdown, which dramatically affect the world and may also directly affect the frequency of cyberattacks and its becoming a more significant tool than ever. We at Team8 have identified a real need to bring together the best cyber experts in the world, including about one hundred CISOs from the leading companies together with opinion leaders in Israeli industry for five full days of in-depth discussions in order to understand together the challenges and opportunities we face and how we should evaluate accordingly. ”