Itzik Kotler

Co-Founder & CTO of Safebreach

Itzik Kotler is an Israeli entrepreneur, inventor, and information security specialist who is the co-founder and CTO of SafeBreach, an Israeli cybersecurity firm. Kotler was previously the Security Operation Center Team Leader at Tel Aviv-based Radware.

Defensive Security January 24, 2023

Everyone wants to build a cyber range: Should you?

7 min read - In the last few years, IBM X-Force has seen an unprecedented increase in requests to build cyber ranges. By cyber ranges, we mean facilities or online spaces that enable team training and exercises of cyberattack responses. Companies understand the need…

Defensive Security June 11, 2021

Everyone Wants to Build a Cyber Range: Should You? Part 2

6 min read - The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way we work, and a large variety of teams have either gone virtual or hybrid, working remotely in some capacity, including IT and security teams. In a pandemic or other crisis, security teams that…

Incident Response March 18, 2021

The Next-Gen Cyber Range: Bringing Incident Response Exercises to the Cloud

5 min read - At IBM X-Force, we keep our customers on the cutting edge of cybersecurity experiences, centered around incident response, and these include responding in cloud native environments. What is cloud native? It is a concept that grew out of the astonishing…

Incident Response February 10, 2021

Smell the Attack? Sensory-Immersive Cyber Range Training for Industry 4.0

7 min read - Humanity has been through a number of industrial revolutions since the 1760s, and is now at its fourth cycle of sweeping industrial innovation, known as Industry 4.0. It is characterized by the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices…

Threat Intelligence February 5, 2021

Moving Threat Identification From Reactive to Predictive and Preventative

8 min read - In a previous post, we focused on organizations’ characteristics, such as sector, geography, risk and impact, when discussing the pillars of building a threat identification program. Now, we move deeper into the concept and expand upon the threat identification process…

Intelligence & Analytics January 29, 2021

Triage Attacks More Efficiently With AI for Cybersecurity

4 min read - Think of cybersecurity like your personal health. In cybersecurity, basic cyber hygiene foils most cyber attacks. With a shortage of cyber experts, just as in medicine, finding faster and better ways to train practitioners using real-world scenarios is key. However,…

Threat Hunting January 14, 2021

Preparing a client environment for threat management

4 min read - A key part of making any threat management program successful is ensuring it maps properly to the client’s needs. In the past, this has been challenging for many groups providing threat management to their internal teams. The challenge has largely…

Incident Response November 30, 2020

Chaos Engineering: Building the Next Generation of Cyber Ranges

6 min read - In one of our past posts on the same subject, we discussed how to apply chaos engineering principles to cyber war-games and team simulation exercises in broad brush strokes. In short, ‘chaos engineering’ is the discipline of working and experimenting…

Intelligence & Analytics October 29, 2020

Threat analysis: How the rapid evolution of reporting can change security

5 min read - With the advancements in data reporting gleaned from security information and event management (SIEM) tools and adjacent solutions, every security team today can face information overload and paralysis. To gain clarity within this murk, the practice of threat analysis has emerged…

Threat Intelligence October 29, 2020

Building a threat identification program to better manage risk: The key pillars

6 min read - Often, in the world of information security and risk management, the question facing threat intelligence teams is amidst this sea of vulnerability disclosures, which ones matter the most to my organization? Which can impact us the most? And, how do…

Incident Response June 17, 2020

Chaos Engineering and Security: Upgrading Simulation Exercises For More Dynamic Threat Environments

4 min read - As the recent pandemic has swept the globe, malicious hackers have quickly pivoted to leverage the confusion to their benefit in carrying out cyberattacks. On April 8, 2020, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…

CISO May 18, 2020

Refocusing Cybersecurity Best Practices on Security Hygiene

4 min read - Attackers often increase their efforts to breach networks and systems during troubling times. As organizations around the world focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, security hygiene should be a focus, too.

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Itzik Kotler

Everyone wants to build a cyber range: Should you?

Everyone Wants to Build a Cyber Range: Should You? Part 2

The Next-Gen Cyber Range: Bringing Incident Response Exercises to the Cloud

Smell the Attack? Sensory-Immersive Cyber Range Training for Industry 4.0

Moving Threat Identification From Reactive to Predictive and Preventative

Triage Attacks More Efficiently With AI for Cybersecurity

Preparing a client environment for threat management

Chaos Engineering: Building the Next Generation of Cyber Ranges

Threat analysis: How the rapid evolution of reporting can change security

Building a threat identification program to better manage risk: The key pillars

Chaos Engineering and Security: Upgrading Simulation Exercises For More Dynamic Threat Environments

Refocusing Cybersecurity Best Practices on Security Hygiene

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