Summary
Yigal Elefant is a hands-on CISO and Head of IT with eight years in senior security leadership and a total career spanning technical roles from offensive security to lab management. He has architected cloud security across AWS, GCP, Azure and Oracle Cloud, led ISO/ISO17 and SOC2 certification efforts, and built security programs and teams from the ground up for startups and scale-ups alike. Known for pragmatic security automation, penetration testing expertise and published research, he balances deep technical implementation with business-aligned risk management. A former OWASP board member and creator of CTF challenges, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to vulnerability discovery and practical defenses. Based in Israel, Yigal uniquely combines enterprise compliance experience with start-up speed, having driven rapid certification and cloud re-architecture initiatives in under a year.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA of Economics & Business Administration, BA of Economics & Business Administration at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
RSA Netwitness Administrator Analyst I & Analyst II, RSA Netwitness Administrator Analyst I & Analyst II at RSA Trainning
English, Hebrew