Iftach Ian Amit

Iftach Ian Amit (Hebrew: יפתח איאן עמית) is an Israeli Hacker[2]/computer security[3] researcher and practitioner.Since 2022, he co-founded and serves as CEO of Gomboc.ai,[20] a deterministic AI cloud security startup and raised over $5 million in a venture capital round.[21] During his career, Amit focused his research on varying topics ranging from uncovering the business elements of cybercrime,[22][23] through connecting state sponsored activities with criminal ones.[24] He has contributed to one of the first research papers conducted on the Stuxnet worm,[25] and was featured on the cover of the inaugural Pentest Magazine about the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES).In 2011, Amit and Itzik Kotler presented at DEF CON, demonstrating how a bot master could communicate with botnets and with "zombie machines" using VoIP conference calls.
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