Profile of Giora Engel

VP Product & Strategy, LightCyber

News & Commentary Posts: 7

Giora Engel, vice president, product & strategy at LightCyber is a serial entrepreneur with many years of technological and managerial experience. For nearly a decade, he served as an officer in an elite technological unit in the Israel Defense Forces, where he initiated and managed interdisciplinary high-risk projects, bridging different domains and leading R&D teams. His broad range of technology experience spans network analysis, cyber-security, algorithmic coding and mission critical systems. His research in the fields of computer vision and physics has been published in Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and the International Journal of Computer Vision, and he holds a patent in the field of image processing. Prior to co-founding LightCyber, Giora co-founded and served as CTO at MeterLive, a consumer insights and audience measurement company, and before that he was Director of Product Management at BQR. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Building A Detection Strategy With The Right Metrics

8/9/2016
The tools used in detecting intrusions can lead to an overwhelming number of alerts, but they’re a vital part of security.
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3 Flavors of Machine Learning: Who, What & Where

2/11/2016
To get beyond the jargon of ML, you have to consider who (or what) performs the actual work of detecting advanced attacks: vendor, product or end-user.
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Automating Breach Detection For The Way Security Professionals Think

10/1/2015
The missing ingredient in making a real difference in the cumbersome process of evaluating a flood of alerts versus a small, actionable number is context.
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Is Your Security Operation Hooked On Malware?

6/16/2015
It may seem counterintuitive, but an overzealous focus on malware may be preventing you from detecting even bigger threats.
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The Bad News For Infosec In The Target Settlement

4/22/2015
The legal argument behind the $10 million Class Action lawsuit and subsequent settlement is a gross misrepresentation of how attackers operate.
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4 Mega-Vulnerabilities Hiding in Plain Sight

1/14/2015
How four recently discovered, high-impact vulnerabilities provided “god mode” access to 90% of the Internet for 15 years, and what that means for the future.
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Deconstructing The Cyber Kill Chain

11/18/2014
As sexy as it is, the Cyber Kill Chain model can actually be detrimental to network security because it reinforces old-school, perimeter-focused, malware-prevention thinking.
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