Ofer Maor

Ofer Maor is a leading technology expert and entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience in information technology and security. In the past two decades, Ofer has helped successful security companies build and deliver technology innovation and products. His responsibilities ranged from hands-on technology research, development, networking, IT and (ethical) hacking, through product building, strategy, marketing and sales, and all the way to M&A of multiple companies. In his current position at Mitiga, Ofer is reshaping how organisations prepare for and deal with breaches, focusing on the new era of attacks across cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. In the last few years, Ofer was part of an exciting journey with Synopsys (SNPS), to become the leader in Software Security & Quality through the acquisition and integration of various leading technologies and solutions in this space. This journey offered him a unique point of view into how technologies are built, sold, and achieve market domination. Prior to Synopsys, Ofer founded several security technology companies. As Founder and CTO of Seeker, now acquired by Synopsys, Ofer pioneered IAST, the next generation of application security testing technology, currently used by some of the largest organizations in the world to continuously improve their software security. Prior to Seeker, Ofer was the Founder and CTO of Hacktics, a world-leading security services group, later acquired by Ernst & Young. Ofer was previously the leader of Imperva's Application Defense Center research group and has also served as the Chairman of OWASP Israel and in the OWASP Global Membership Committee.