Guy Franco
Chief Technology Officer And Co-Founder at Raven.io
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolGuy Franco is a seasoned cybersecurity entrepreneur and technology leader with nine years of post-academic experience and a decade-plus background in Israeli defense cyber operations. As CTO and co-founder of Raven.io and formerly of Javelin Networks (acquired by Symantec), he blends hands-on engineering with product-led security innovation, particularly in Active Directory and deception-based defenses. At Symantec he led engineering for Active Directory Threat Defense and contributed to advanced features in endpoint protection, demonstrating a track record of taking early-stage ideas to enterprise-grade products. His career spans consulting, incident forensics, and large-scale security program delivery, informed by practical field work in the IDF’s intelligence units. Known for turning attacker insights into defensive products, he favors architectures that detect and divert threats rather than merely hardening perimeters. Based in Tel Aviv, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep operational security knowledge to build practical, scalable cyber solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, YaffoGithub contributions (2)
JavelinNetworks/HoneypotBuster
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
JavelinNetworks/IR-Tools
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 commits in 5 months
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