Idan Levin

Angel Investor

2023 - Current

Partner Chief Architect

2023

Chief architect for bringing Generative AI (Security CoPilot) into Microsoft Security products (Defenders and Sentinel) and vice-versa, building Microsoft Security products to protect Generative AI (LLM) based applications.

Partner Group Engineering Manager

2022 - 2023

Chief architect for M365 Security products (XDR) + SIEM: * Microsoft Defender for Endpoint * Microsoft Defender for Identity * Microsoft Defender for Office * Microsoft Defender for Applications * Microsoft Sentinel (cloud SIEM) driving the all-up strategy of inter-product and intra-product key architecture and design decisions, as well as technology evaluation and selection. working closely with biz/corpdev for partnerships and M&As.

Principal Group Engineering Manager

2017 - 2022

Angel Investor

2021

Insider

2018

Member

2018

Angel Investor

2021 - 2023

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks

Co-Founder & CTO

2014 - 2017

Hexadite AIRS is the first agentless intelligent security orchestration and automation platform for Global 2000 companies. By easily integrating with customers’ existing security technologies and harnessing artificial intelligence that automatically investigates every cyber alert and drives remediation actions, Hexadite enables security teams to go from alert to remediation in minutes at scale.

R&D Team Leader

2013 - 2014

As R&D team leader at Elbit Systems I managed multiple cyber security projects with worldwide civilian and military customers, I was responsible for coming up with projects ideas, recruiting and training the relevant personals, building development plan and managing the projects’ teams using SCRUM methodology and finally deploying each project in the customers’ organization. I also provided sales technical support and performed customers’ requirement analysis.

Software Engineer

2010 - 2012

Designed and developed large scale Cyber and Intelligence systems using various low-level and high-level technologies such as .Net 4, Python, Ruby and C/ C++, relying on both relational databases and NoSQL documents-based databases. While most of the projects I developed were classified as top-secret, one exception was Elbit’s Cyber Trainer which came up to be a world-class leader in the field of cyber training, I was responsible for developing the product’s first version, focusing on a virtual attack engine which simulates various cyber-attacks (Trojans, Worms, SQL Injections, XSS-Injections, DDoS, etc.) and lets cyber defenders try and protect against them.

Co-Founder & VP R&D

2010 - 2012

CallByText was a cloud service that enabled customers to save roaming fees by initiating skype conference with a text message or by using an IPhone app. CallByText had over 10K customers worldwide without any use of marketing or sales resources. CallByText was closed on 2012 due to changes in the cellular markets in both general directions and pricing plans. I was responsible for the complete back-end development using C# and WCF.

R&D Team Leader

2008 - 2010

During my time as R&D team leader at the IDF elite intelligence unit I initiated and led cyber and intelligence technological projects, including managing heterogeneous teams of several software developers and security researchers and building their complete training program.