It Starts With a Hoodie and an iPad with Avi Bashan

Joining us this week is Avi Bashan, CTO of Kovrr sharing perspective on quantifying the elusive risk elements of business today. Great insights he shares on new methodologies and tools security teams, Risk Officers and others can leverage today to start putting risk into an understandable and quantifiable business perspective. And no conversation on risk is complete without discussion on cyber insurance - and we take a quick trip from the insurance industry's beginnings through to present day cyber insurance. Avi Bashan, Chief Technology Officer Avi is CTO at Kovrr and leads engineering and research efforts. He started his career in an elite Israeli intelligence technology unit. Following his service, Avi advised Fortune500 companies on cybersecurity. Following his consulting period, Avi led research and development efforts at Lacoon Mobile security focusing on discovering novel new attacks and building state of the art malware detection engines. Lacoon Mobile Security was acquired by Check Point. Avi is a lecturer at Bar Ilan University's Business School and holds a B.Med.Sc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e173