Ory Segal

CTO, PureSec

Ory Segal is a world-renowned expert in application security, with 20 years of experience in the field. Ory is the CTO and co-founder of PureSec, a start-up that enables organizations to secure serverless applications. Prior to PureSec, Ory was senior director of threat research at Akamai, where he led a team of top web security and big data researchers. Prior to Akamai, Ory worked at IBM as the security products architect and product manager for the market leading application security solution IBM Security AppScan. Ory authored 20 patents in the field of application security, static analysis, dynamic analysis, threat reputation and systems. He is currently serving as an officer of the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), he was a member of the W3C WebAppSec working group, and was an OWASP Israel board member. Ory is a regular conference presenter in conferences such as Blackhat, OWASP, CodeBlue and Gartner Security Summit.


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