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Leonid Belkind

Investor at enso.security

Israel

Overview 

Leonid Belkind is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Torq, with a background that includes serving as Vice President and CTO at Symantec and co-founding Luminate Security. His career highlights include leading product development in cybersecurity at top companies and making strategic investments in SMB software and security sectors in Israel.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

    2019 - Current

    Making the world a more efficient place, one security team at a time.

Torq is a AI-first security hyperautomation company that provides a no-code automation platform designed to enhance security operations.

Raised $190,000,000.00 from Strait Capital, Greenfield Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Evolution Equity Partners.

  • Investor / Advisor

    2020

  • Insider

    2019

YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.

  • Member

    2019

    Member in the Glilot Community Members program.

  • Contributing Writer, Official Member

    2018

    Member of the Forbes Technology Council. Sharing my experience with the community of IT professionals, writing about the paradigm shifts that the industry is undergoing.

Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for senior-level tech executives.

  • Vice President, CTO - Zero Trust

    2019 - 2019

    Joined Symantec upon its acquisition of Luminate Security. Responsible for technological and product integration of Secure Access Cloud into Symantec Integrated Cyber Defense Platform, as well as for driving adoption of Zero Trust and Cloud-Native product strategies across Symantec portfolio of industry-leading cyber security solutions.

Email Filtering Company

Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.

  • Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

    2016 - 2019

    Luminate Security revolutionizes the way enterprises provide access to corporate applications and services. Our Software-as-a-Service platform is based on the Software Defined Perimeter principles and provides access to applications hosted on any Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Hosting or Hybrid Cloud Data Center platform. Our solution is client-less and allows production-grade deployment to be performed in minutes, while delivering unparalleled security and insight into any action performed inside corporate applications and services. We are backed by top-tier venture capital firms and strategic investors. Our solution is deployed at the most innovative and dynamic companies in fields, such as Financial Services, Consumer Services, Manufacturing and more.

Luminate delivers the The Secure Access Cloud™, a quick to setup and easy to manage access to corporate resources in the hybrid cloud.

Raised $14,000,000.00 from Aleph and U.S. Venture Partners.

  • Head of Mobile Information Protection

    2014 - 2016

    Responsible for a number of product lines, including: * Check Point Capsule, a revolutionary multi-level security solution for Enterprise Mobility * Mobile Access - Universal remote and mobile access solution for Enterprises * Endpoint Security - market-leading Mobile Data Protection and Endpoint Protection solution Launched two exciting Threat Prevention Products (from concept phase to delivery and launch): * Sandblast Agent - Multi-layer Endpoint Threat Detection and Response solution * Sandblast Cloud for Office 365 - Zero-day Threat Prevention solution for SaaS Platforms

  • Director, Mobile Information Protection

    2014 - 2014

    * Drive the Enterprise Mobile Information Protection products positioning and strategy internally and externally * Manage an organization delivering the products line, over 70 employees in different locations * Enterprise Mobility / Management market and trend analysis

  • Director, Enterprise Endpoint Security

    2011 - 2013

    + Leading an organization delivering the Enterprise Endpoint Security products line + Managing full cycle of product operations from market analysis and product definition, through product architecture, program management and delivery, training and strategic pre/post sales escalations + Managing an organization employing over 100 managers and engineers in a number of different locations (Israel, US, Eastern Europe)

  • Group Manager, Endpoint Security Core

    2010 - 2011

    * Leading the development of Next Generation Endpoint Security products * Building a knowledge center in the field of Windows Internals technologies and Windows Kernel technologies, strongly focused on Networking - NDIS, Windows Filtering Platform, ...

  • Group Manager, Endpoint Security Management and Advanced Management Tools

    2007 - 2010

    * Building and managing a new group (3 Software Development Teams), reaching 25 people at its peak * Delivering a number of solutions in field of Enterprise Security Management technologies * Leading a worldwide development effort for the next generation of Endpoint Security Management product

  • Team Leader and Project Manager

    2004 - 2007

    * Managing the RND of Provider-1 product (currently - Multi-Domain Management Software Blade) * Product evangelism for high-end enterprises, including direct work with Fortune Global 100 companies * Revolutionized the product positioning inside Check Point, from being a side product to main-stream capability in the company's product line

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2002 - 2003

    * Developing a High-End Network Security management platform * Containerization of multi-process servers in Solaris and Linux Operating Systems * Leading complex integration projects

Check Point Software Technologies provides and protects customers from cyberattacks.

  • Senior Software Engineer and Technology Expert

    2000 - 2002

    * Deliver a Software-as-a-Service platform for specialized banner/ad serving and email campaigns * Drive the architectural and the technological aspects of the solution * Technological focus on Microsoft Architecture (Microsoft COM+, ASP, VISUAL C++)

XMPie offers variable data publishing and web-to-print marketing software for advertising agencies, and commercial digital printers.

Raised $18,000,000.00 from Viola Credit and Viola Credit.

  • Software Engineer

    1999 - 2000

    * Building a machine learning system targeting automatic configuration of enterprise software based on analysis of events collected by sensors deployed in the production environment * Focus on data analytics platform, based on Microsoft Repository, SQL Server

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