Cyber Week TLV

👾 CyberWeek and the Strategy behind Cyber Leadership

CyberWeek highlights not only technological innovation, but also the strategic thinking that supports long term cybersecurity leadership.

In a Times of Israel blog, Isaac Ben-Israel, Director of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University, examines how Israel’s cybersecurity ecosystem has been shaped by experience, policy, and institutional design, offering insight into the foundations of national cyber resilience.

👉 https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/built-in-crisis-the-strategic-playbook-behind-israels-cybersecurity-leadership/

“We know that fraudsters, the bad guys, don’t care about quality or safety with the use of AI.”
-Gilit Saporta , VP Product, Fraud Prevention DoubleVerify

🔍💸 FraudCON @ 2025 – Financial Crime: Rising to the Challenge

FraudCON brings together fraud leaders, cyber experts, banks, fintechs and online platforms to ask a hard question: how do we actually keep up?

Across a focused half-day program, participants will dive into topics like LLM-enabled fraud, the “dark side of AI”, marketplace monitoring, and the networks financing terrorism and hate since October 7.

Speakers and moderators included Uri Rivner, CEO & Co-Founder, Refine Intelligence; Gilit Saporta, VP Product, Fraud Prevention, DoubleVerify & author of Practical Fraud Prevention (O’Reilly); Oren Karmi, Risk & Compliance, Base44; Dr Shlomit Wagman, former Chair of the Israel Financial Crime Agency; and Daniella Segal, Strategic Investigations & Risk Intelligence Advisor, alongside additional experts from leading banks, fintechs and cyber firms.

If you work in fraud prevention, risk, cyber, compliance or product, this is where the latest fraud tactics meet real-world defense strategies.

“Israel is incredible but let's make more room for success”...

What the Experts See on the Horizon for Cybersecurity 🧭⚙️

Ofer Ben-Noon, SASE CTO at Palo Alto Networks; Merav Bahat, Co-founder and CEO of Dazz (now Wiz); and Tomer Gershoni, Head of Cyber Security and Trusted AI at PwC Israel, joined Idan Tendler for a forward-looking discussion on how the cyber ecosystem can adapt to rapid AI-driven change.

As part of this year’s program, the speakers examined how accelerating innovation, expanding attack surfaces, and rising global competition are reshaping what the next phase of cybersecurity will demand.

They emphasized the need to strengthen national digital infrastructure, advance AI-governance frameworks, and deepen collaboration among industry, government, and research.

The conversation pointed to a clear takeaway: as AI becomes central to the cyber domain, organizations will need to build for resilience, scale, and continuous adaptation.