Tal Maor
AI For Security Research Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTal Maor is an AI-for-security research leader with nine years of experience driving cloud identity and SaaS protection at Microsoft, now managing efforts to build GenAI agents that detect and remediate compromised identities. He combines deep protocol-level expertise in NTLM, Kerberos, and OAuth with hands-on R&D leadership across cloud app and identity research teams, translating attacker tradecraft into pragmatic defenses. His background includes intelligence analysis leadership in the Israeli Intelligence Service and applied security research at Verint, giving him a rare blend of operational threat insight and engineering rigor. An MBA in Technology Management from UW Foster complements his technical BS in Computer Science, enabling him to bridge research, product, and business priorities while advancing attack graph and AI-driven security tooling.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, YaffoMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Technology Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Technology Management at UW Foster School of Business
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (15)
intelligent9
active-directory9
cybersecurity9
security8
azure-active-directory8
graph7
microsoft6
azure-cosmos-db6
analytics6
kql5
cloud-native5
azure5
cosmos5
kubernetes5
gremlin3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
talmaor/AzureADLateralMovement
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Lateral Movement graph for Azure Active Directory
Contributions:6 commits in 7 months
azure-active-directorylateral-movementdirectorygraphazure
talmaor/GraphExplorer
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Exploring graph queries on top of Azure Cosmos DB with Gremlin
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year
azure-cosmos-dbcosmos-dbgraph-queriesgraphazure
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