Ory Segal

Investor

2022

CTO, Prisma Cloud

2022

Sr. Director, Product Management

2019 - 2022

Advisor

2021

Member

2021

Advisor

2020 - 2024

Advisor

2022 - 2022

Co-Founder and CTO

2017 - 2019

PureSec helps organizations to secure serverless applications, from development to production and bridge the gap between development teams and IT security to keep serverless architectures safe. ​ PureSec provides support for all serverless platforms, including AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions and IBM OpenWhisk, allowing organizations to detect, prevent and respond to suspicious activity and attacks. ​ PureSec provides enterprises full visibility, transparent and automated security together with policy enforcement.

Senior Director of Threat Research

2016 - 2017

Managing a team of superstar application security researchers responsible for the security logic and contents of Akamai's Kona security solutions. Researching web application security trends, developing web application protections such as WAF, Client Reputation, DDoS protection and Bot mitigation. Dealing with security big data covering more than 30% of all internet traffic. Our team's expertise involve the following areas of research: - Web application layer security, attacks and protections - Client & device fingerprinting - Behavioral analysis and anomaly detection - Security big data analytics (Akamai scale) - Data science & machine learning - Classification of malicious web users, fraudsters, etc. - Web bots detection and classification Our research and technical contributions helped position Akamai as a leader in Gartner's WAF magic quadrant, and drive Akamai's security business from an emerging product to a business with an annualized revenue run rate of nearly $0.5 Billion.

Director of Threat Research

2014 - 2016

Managing a team of superstar application security researchers responsible for the security logic and contents of Akamai's Kona security solutions. Researching web application security trends, developing web application protections such as WAF, client reputation, DDoS protection and Bot mitigation. Dealing with security big data covering more than 30% of all internet traffic.

Principal Product Architect & Threat Research Team Manager, Cloud Security

2012 - 2014

In this role, I was responsible for positioning Akamai as a thought leader in the application security space. Responsible for the design & development of Akamai's Kona Rule Set, Akamai WAF Testing Framework, Akamai Client Reputation, and Akamai's Cloud Security Intelligence big data platform - a one of it's kind intelligence platform, capable of storing and analyzing Petabytes of security data.

Security Products Architect & AppScan Product Manager

2007 - 2012

Responsible for researching technologies and recommending strategic directions for IBM Rational application security products. In addition, in charge of several key profile projects, as well as product/project manager. Received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA, the highest technical award in IBM), 2010. Technologies that I helped develop: Dynamic Application Security Testing, Static Analysis for Security, "Glassbox" (IAST) scanning technology.

Director of Security Research

2005 - 2007

Responsible for researching technologies and recommending strategic directions for Watchfire's security product line.