FeatureAs part of Mor’s responsibility, she leads a global organisation of cybersecurity experts that are responsible for providing Incident Response Services, Threat Research and Intelligence.
Mor started her career in the industry when she was 18 years old, as part of her military service in the Israeli Defense Forces. She went through IT training and evolved from there to information security and eventually made the transition to cybersecurity.
During Mor’s career, she has been operating in various cybersecurity roles — operational security, cybersecurity research, that included malware analysis and threat hunting capabilities, Incident Response and Forensics, security consulting and product security management.
The way people develop and grow themselves is driven by environment and by their ambitions
The key technical capabilities that Mor has developed and nurtured along the years are an understanding of network security and operating systems, and how attackers can leverage those infrastructures via exploitation of vulnerabilities, misconfiguration or via malicious tools/software.
It was important for her to use various tools and techniques to perform investigations, so she could better understand the whole process of a cyberattack and how to potentially prevent it or reduce the risk of it reoccurring.
It depends on the person and their belief system, moral conscience and professional etiquette
As for managerial skills, Mor is a big believer in trusting her people and providing them with enough freedom, but also responsibility. This is a delicate science or art, but it helps to attract great talent and allows her, as a manager, to grow and lead the team with confidence.
Mor believes that it really depends on the person and their belief system, moral conscience and professional etiquette. The way people develop and grow themselves is driven by the environment but also by their ambitions, willingness to work hard and ability to identify the right opportunities.
Another experience she enjoys is gathering her leadership group to talk about future goals and strategy
Some of Mor’s colleagues have concerns about their career progression due to gender and others do not. In some cases, it is a result of a company’s culture or lack of diversity, while in other cases, rather than gender, it is due to a misalignment between employee’s expectations for career progression and the company’s policies — for example some companies would not promote people year after year, even if they deserve that.
Mor thinks that diversity enriches our everyday lives and environment and this is particularly true in the cyber security space. As part of the cyber security world, there is a constant need to be creative and think outside the box, and having a diverse team helps to get a mix of opinions, thoughts and ideas which increase the creativity and the actions that will be done by the team.
Some colleagues have concerns about their career progression due to gender and others do not
Mor has two significant passions as part of her work: investigating threats and managing amazing people.
In one of the cases that was recently investigated by the Cybereason global incident response team, they were able to identify a nation state threat actor that was accessing an environment using very sophisticated and low key techniques.
Even though Mor was not hands-on in this investigation, it was very satisfying for her to see a global team that she has built, working together, brainstorming ideas, and eventually solving a very complex puzzle and helping Cybereason’s customer get back to business and mature their Cybersecurity resilience.
The way people develop and grow themselves is driven by environment and by their ambitions
Another experience that she really enjoys is gathering her leadership group for a week or so to talk about their future goals and strategy but also to become close as human beings and get to know each other better.
Mor is a believer in people and providing them with freedom and responsibility, which helps attract talent and allows her to grow and lead the team.
