BGU Cyber Security Expertise Shines in San Francisco
BGU Cyber Security Expertise Shines in San Francisco
March 21, 2014
Business & Management, Homeland & Cyber Security, Robotics & High-Tech
JWeekly — Some two dozen Israeli firms met with potential partners and investors at the recent Israel Cyber Security Showcase, a first-time event hosted by Israel’s Economic Mission to the West Coast, which recently moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
The showcase was held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference, which brought tens of thousands of top-level cyber security professionals from around the world to San Francisco’s Moscone Center for four days.
Israeli companies at the showcase considered it to be important for them to be given a public platform to show off their products and talk with potential investors.
Prof. Yuval Elovici, co-founder of Titanium Core, speaks at BGU
“It’s unique,” said Avi Shavit, head of the Homeland Security Department for the Office of the Israeli Chief Scientist. “It’s the first of its kind for Israeli cybersecurity. It’s important for them to be here.”
Representatives from Wells Fargo Bank, Lockheed Martin, Cisco, and other multinational corporations roamed the event, speaking with the Israeli entrepreneurs.
The showcase culminated with the announcement that a startup from BGU, Titanium Core, won Jerusalem Venture Partners’ first cyber security competition.
Titanium Core will receive a $1 million investment and office space in JVP’s CyberLabs located in Beer-Sheva’s new Advanced Technologies Park.
JVP is Israel’s first government-backed early stage incubator focusing on cyber security and data protection, and was established in cooperation with BGU. Along with JVP partners and analysts, judges of the contests were top executives from GE, Cisco, Microsoft, EMC-RSA, and Lockheed Martin.
“We are super impressed with the potential some of these companies represent,” said Chandra McMahon, a vice president at Lockheed Martin IT Systems and one of the contest judges. “We see [in them] an ability to look at a problem differently.”
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