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Lidor is a seasoned Security Researcher with a passion for web application security, penetration testing, and vulnerability research. Previously working at Orca Security where he deep dived into the field of cloud-native application security. Was ranked 7th globally in Microsoft Most Valuable Researcher for 2023.

Yoni is an experienced security researcher and low-level software engineer, interested in OS internals, cryptography, and mathematics. At Pattern Labs, Yoni works on evaluating AI safety in the context of cybersecurity risks and capabilities. Previously, Yoni has worked at Guardicore (acquired by Akamai), developing Windows drivers and Linux kernel modules for advanced network security products - and consequently, debugging many blue screens and kernel panics.

Ivan Kwiatkowski is an OSCP and OSCE-certified penetration tester and malware analyst who has been working as a Lead Cyber Threat Researcher at HarfangLab since 2023. He maintains a number of open-source reverse-engineering tools (Gepetto, Manalyze) and his research has been presented during several cybersecurity conferences worldwide.

Or Chechik is a Principal Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks, with a decade of experience and a military cybersecurity background. He is passionate about low-level research, threat research, and vulnerability research.

Assaf Dahan has over 15 years in the infosec industry. He started his career in the Israeli Military 8200 Cybersecurity unit where he gained extensive experience in offensive security. Later in his career he led Red Teams, developed penetration testing methodologies, and specialized in malware analysis and reverse engineering.

Daniel Frank is the Threat Research Team Leader at Palo Alto Networks Cortex Threat Research Team, with over a decade of experience. His core roles include researching emerging threats, reverse-engineering malware, threat hunting, and threat intelligence. Frank has a BSc degree in information systems.

Vera is a vulnerability researcher at Team82 by Claroty, passionate about low level security and electronics. She began her career as a low-level software engineer but later transitioned to security research and then vulnerability research. Today, Vera uses the same mistakes she made as a developer to find bugs.

Dor Amit Co-Founder & CTO of 10Root Cyber Security White Hacker and Security researcher with over 20~ years experience

Ben is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, working as part of the Edge & Platform Security Fundamentals organization. His research focuses on finding vulnerabilities and design flaws in firmware and architecture of embedded devices. Ben has accumulated over a decade of experience in security research, both prior to and during his time at Microsoft.

Yair is a principal security research manager at Microsoft, working as part of the Edge & Platform Security Fundamentals organization. Yair manages 2 security research teams, focusing on both cloud and OS security. As part of this role, Yair led multiple engagements with Microsoft's partners, ensuring the root of trust for client and server devices is as secure as intended. Before Microsoft, Yair spent 14 years at Intel, as a security researcher, and later as a security manager - within the CSME firmware team, reviewing the root of trust for all Intel shipped products.

Asaf is the front-end tech lead @Evinced, with 13+ years of experience under his belt, including frontend, backend, and test automation (go testing!), and a special place in his heart for shiny CI pipelines. In the past few years, he dove into the world of chrome extensions, stretching their boundaries and revealing their weaknesses. He loves reading Harry Potter with his daughter, mentoring junior devs, and making bonfires with his family.

Gabriel Landau is a principal at Elastic Security. His research focuses on attack and defense of AV, EDR, and the Windows kernel. He has presented research at Black Hat USA, ShmooCon, and Black Hat Asia. His non-public work includes endpoint protections, exploit mitigation, and malware reversing. Though he mostly wears blue these days, his heart will always be red.

Gal is an expert in browser JavaScript and client side security with close to a decade of proven experience in multiple fields, ranging from vulnerability research and bots mitigation, through application and supply chain security to anti debugging research, browser extensions security and more. Gal is also an experienced speaker with multiple performances in well known conferences and podcasts and is responsible for some popular findings and discoveries in the browser security space.

Security researcher at Microsoft, focusing on email borne threats. Prior to Microsoft I was leading the response group at Perception Point (an Israel startup focusing on email & browser security)

Security researcher at Microsoft, focusing on email borne threats. Prior to Microsoft I was leading a response team at Perception Point (an Israel startup focusing on email & browser security)

Ori David is a security researcher at Akamai. Coming from an offensive security background, his research focuses on uncovering attack surfaces exposed by popular products, and finding ways to abuse them.

Or Yair is a security research professional with more than six years of experience, currently serving as the Security Research Team Lead at SafeBreach. Or started his professional career in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). His primary focus lies in vulnerabilities in Windows operating system’s components, though his past work also included research of Linux kernel components and some Android components. Or's research is driven by innovation and a commitment to challenging conventional thinking. He enjoys contradicting assumptions and considers creativity as a key skill for research. Or has already presented his vulnerability and security research discoveries internationally at conferences he spoke at such as Black Hat USA 2023, Black Hat Asia 2024, Black Hat Europe 2022, SecTor 2023, RSAC 2023, Security Fest 2023, CONFidence 2023 & 2024, and more

Israel Gubi is a security researcher and reverse engineer in the Malware Research Team at Check Point Research. Israel joined Check Point in 2017 and was part of the first cycle of the Check Point Security Academy. Israel mainly focuses on malware analysis and malware hunting of Advanced Persistent Threat campaigns.

Amitai is a threat researcher with over a decade of experience in analyzing advanced threat actors and targeted attacks. Currently, he leads the Threat Intelligence Analysis (TIA) in Check Point Research, following diverse roles in the fields of Threat Research, Incident Response and Threat Hunting. His main focus is identifying, analyzing and tracking the activity of statesponsored actors.

Sherrod DeGrippo is Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy at Microsoft. She was selected as Cybersecurity woman of the year in 2022 and Cybersecurity PR Spokesperson of the year for 2021.  Previously, she was VP of Threat Research and Detection at Proofpoint, where she led a global team of threat researchers, malware reverse engineers and threat intelligence analysts. Her career in cybersecurity spans 20 years with prior roles including leading Red Team Services at Nexum, senior solutions engineer for Symantec, senior security consultant for Secureworks, and senior network security analyst for the National Nuclear Security Admin. She is a frequently cited threat intelligence expert in media including televised appearances on the BBC News, and commentary in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Times, and more. Having presented at Black Hat, RSA conference, RMISC, SleuthCon, and others, Sherrod is a well known public speaker, and the host of THE Microsoft Threat Intelligence podcast. In her personal time, Sherrod spends time with her rescue dog Boris Karloff.

Wolfgang advises security leaders and organizations on human-centric programs. He was formerly the Advisory CISO of Duo Security focusing on identity and zero trust. Wolfgang has held senior management roles in IT and IT security in the financial services and healthcare verticals. In addition, Wolf has held senior leadership roles in consulting firms specializing in identity and access management, data protection, governance risk and compliance, and security programs.