Security professionals find themselves inundated with alerts about misconfigurations, administration permissions and S3 buckets open to the Internet, among the barrage of non-stop notifications. And there is likely no end in sight as an organization’s cloud footprint is ever-expanding.  Today, the Cloud Security Alliance estimates that 67% of organizations host sensitive data or workloads in the public cloud. Imagine what that will look like in the years to come. As a security researcher, I felt the pain of cybersecurity in the wake of cloud transformation, caught between the advantage i ..read more

This is definitely true for those who are unfamiliar with the brand (which is us, in the above case) but what about the ones who do? Your friends? Family? How does it work for them? Branding is the process of creating a distinct identity for a business in the mind of your target audience. But what happens when your target audience is your organization’s employees? The heart and soul of the organization you lead and represent? It has recently become trendy to talk about “internal branding”, how do you highlight your value proposition and distinguish yourself from others to your own people? Whi ..read more

A report that examined 70 Venture Capital funds and 424 private and VC-backed startups that are active in Israel revealed that the average percentage of women represented in companies is 33%. Though there is a more substantial presence of women in large companies (36%) than in smaller companies (30.8%), the representation of women in tech jobs is a mere 27%. When it comes to management roles, being a C-level executive, VP, or director, only 23.4% of these positions are filled by women. That is to say, less than a quarter of the decision-makers in the ecosystem are women. When looking at VCs ..read more

Shopping experiences, habits, processes, and generally anything related to the fashion industry are hard to sustain as it is constantly evolving. As a result of COVID-19, the world of fashion was not only halted but has now prevailed as being predominantly online-driven. With such a dramatic alteration that is only increasing as the days go on, customers not only want variety in styles, but also an inspiring and personalized digital experience that makes shopping for apparel easy, fun and social. Israeli startups are offering new remedies and touching upon old habits to combat issues of susta ..read more

Nutrition is vital to health and bodily growth. Being conscious and educated about what you are putting into your body and the ways it will affect all bodily functions is, and always has been, one of the most underlying health issues, not just in Israel, but globally too. There exists an overwhelming amount of irony when discussing nutritional elements- maintaining a balance, food security and insecurity, malnourishment, obesity, diabetes, and food processing- as most remedies do not provide substantivity regarding short-term methods. In 2021, world hunger rose to as many as 828 million, yet ..read more

This dynamic is affecting many industries and has recently created many, very public, massive layoffs in the tech industry. Meta let 11,000 people go. Twitter reduced half its workforce (around 3,700 employees since Elon Musk joined). Amazon announced plans to release 10,000 people, and many more stories like these. The state of the market as we head into 2023 The gaming industry isn’t immune to the above dynamics and is experiencing headwinds itself. As a whole, The NPD Group reported a 5% decline in consumer spending on video gaming in Q3-2022 compared to Q3-2021. Sensor Tower reported that ..read more

As part of this effort, we recently discovered and disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in popular Rust projects such as Axum, Salvo and conduit-hyper, that stem from the same root cause - forgetting to set proper limits on HTTP requests when using the Hyper library. In this blog post, we will elaborate on this issue and share guidance on how to avoid it, which is important since it can be trivially exploited for DoS. What is Rust’s Hyper Package? Hyper is an extremely popular, low-level HTTP library written in Rust. The library is not a full-featured HTTP server or client, but rather it can be ..read more

Well, you should probably care because CFIUS could have an immense impact on your investments in the United States. Dealing with CFIUS could delay, complicate, and even scupper your deal in its entirety and failing to make required filings could lead to substantial penalties. But what is CFIUS? CFIUS stands for the “Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States”. It was established almost fifty years ago as an interagency committee, chaired by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and reporting directly to the President. The Committee is authorized to make recommendations to the Presiden ..read more

In my podcast, I explore the many different facets of the world of high tech from development to marketing, to sales, to entrepreneurship, all with the goal of collecting key insights on startups for listeners to gain value from this knowledge-sharing. So what did I discover this week? Sports technology, as a field, is growing as teams, clubs, and management all look for new ways to improve their performance. Performance is not just on the field but in the consumer realm as well. The question many teams and sports clubs are asking themselves is - how do you keep the younger generations intere ..read more

What Israeli Startups Need to Know About GDPR Requirements in the EU Maintaining GDPR compliance is critical for organizations to avoid breaking EU privacy laws and incurring hefty fines. However, does the GDPR act apply only to European organizations? Or are there cases when Israeli startups need to comply with the GDPR requirements? This post will answer these questions and more. GDPR Compliance Requirements: Do They Apply to Israel? GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation, the EU’s legislative act that is called to shape personal data protection requirements for organizations. A ..read more