Ory Segal
Investor at Kooply
Israel
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2022 - Current
CTO, Prisma Cloud
2022
Sr. Director, Product Management
2019 - 2022
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Raised $65,000,000.00 from Northgate Capital, Icon Ventures, Japan Asia Investment, Lehman Holdings, Greylock, Globespan Capital Partners and Sequoia Capital.
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.
Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Raised $1,135,000,000.00 from IVP.
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.
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
Director of Security Research
2005 - 2007
Responsible for researching technologies and recommending strategic directions for Watchfire's security product line.
Education
BA
1997 - 2002