CyberTech – The Golden Globes of information security

By: Ben Rothke

The Golden Globe awards are considered a predictor to the Academy Awards. Using that analogy, and with some license, the CyberTech conference in Tel Aviv may be the Golden Globes with the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco being the Oscar’s of information security.

Strictly speaking, CyberTech would be the Israeli Golden Globe awards, given the preponderance of Israeli firms at the conference.

I attended the CyberTech 2016 conference in Tel Aviv in late January along with a delegation of other U.S.-based bloggers and journalists, courtesy of the America–Israel Friendship League and the Israeli Foreign Ministry. I met a large number of interesting infosec firms, many of them offering cutting edge solutions. Some of the more interesting companies I met were….read more.