Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Adi Sharabani is the CEO and co-founder of Skycure. A world-renowned security expert with years of experience in enterprise software, Adi was formerly the leader of security for IBM software products.

He came to IBM through the acquisition of Watchfire, a market leader in the field of application security, where Adi built and led its security and research group. Adi holds more than 25 patents in the security space, and his works, presentations and keynotes are regularly given the highest accolades at prestigious conferences.

Adi earned a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from Tel Aviv University, and is a fellow in Professor Yuval’s workshop for science, technology and security.

Committed to cyber security education, Adi has been a teacher and education advisor, playing a key role in the vision and implementation of the cyber defense curriculum for high school students in Israel majoring in cyber security.

After compiling decades of leadership in cyber security, Adi co-founded Skycure with the central idea of improving mobile security with a more proactive and predictive Mobile Threat Defense solution.

In an interview for the RSA Conference blog, Adi notes, “Organizations [need] the ability to evolve to address the changing nature of [mobile security] attacks… for the most part, devices are simply running naked.”

Adi embraces cyber security research and development, realizing that only through targeted research and continuous innovation can mobile security evolve into intelligent and highly active security for organizations.