Profile of Eyal Benishti

CEO & Founder of IRONSCALES

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As Chief Executive Officer at IRONSCALES, Eyal Benishti pioneered the development of the world's first self-learning anti-phishing email security solution that combines human intelligence and machine learning technologies for automatic prevention, detection, and autonomous incident response to cyberattacks in real time. Under Eyal's leadership, IRONSCALES has filed four patents for anti-phishing and email security solutions and secured three funding rounds from K1 and Israel's RDSeed totaling more than $20 million. IRONSCALES has received numerous awards, including Frost & Sullivan's AI-Powered Email Security Innovation Award and Best Enterprise Email Security Solution by the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards.

Eyal brings to his executive leadership role nearly 15 years of software industry experience with enterprise and startup companies. Prior to founding IRONSCALES in 2013, he was a security researcher and malware analyst at Radware and worked as technical lead for various information security solutions at Imperva. Previously, he held a variety of R&D roles with Comverse and Amdocs. A passionate cybersecurity researcher from a young age, Eyal earned his bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

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Return to Basics: Email Security in the Post-COVID Workplace

6/1/2021
As we reimagine the post-pandemic workplace, we must also reevaluate post-pandemic email security practices.
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The 3 Most Common Types of BEC Attacks (And What You Can Do About Them)

1/7/2021
Always be skeptical and double check credentials.
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What the Battle of Britain Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity's Human Element

3/18/2020
During WWII, the British leveraged both technology and human intelligence to help win the war. Security leaders must learn the lessons of history and consider how the human element can make their machine-based systems more effective.
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Email Threats Poised to Haunt Security Pros into Next Decade

10/30/2019
Decentralized threat intel sharing, more public-private collaboration, and greater use of automated incident response are what's needed to combat phishing
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Advanced Phishing Scenarios You Will Most Likely Encounter This Year

1/14/2019
In 2019, there will be no end in sight to email-driven cybercrime such as business email compromise, spearphishing, and ransomware.
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The Return of Email Flooding

11/29/2018
An old attack technique is making its way back into the mainstream with an onslaught of messages that legacy tools and script writing can't easily detect.
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Office 365 & G-Suite: How Email Security Is Failing Your Business

5/29/2018
Microsoft's Office 365 and Google's G-Suite boast of many advanced features to secure email, however, as phishers and other attackers get better at attacking email platforms, these two companies need to do more to keep up.
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Security Training & Awareness: 3 Big Myths

10/23/2017
The once-overwhelming consensus that security awareness programs are invaluable is increasingly up for debate.
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The Limitations Of Phishing Education

1/9/2017
Human nature means that education will only go so far. Technology needs to take up the slack.
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