Jewish cybersecurity expert Lior Div came to the United States more than a decade ago when he relocated his business, Cybereason, to Boston.
Div returned to the security industry two years after selling his previous company to Japanese investment firm SoftBank. His brand-new startup, 7AI, recently moved into a Back Bay office just blocks away from his former shop.
Div, 47, said his new agency’s goal is to protect corporate computer systems from hackers, relying heavily on the latest artificial intelligence technology. After all, fraudsters and U. S. adversaries are now harnessing the software to enable their hacking work, he said.
According to Div,” The motion from relational AI will move us to a new world of attack,” noting that attackers can use the technology to significantly increase the number and elegance of their attacks. A hacker can create more enticing emails full of ransomware using a program like ChatGPT and take them to more prospective subjects than ever before, he claimed.
” They’re going to launch pounding us again and again and more and more,” I say the move is from the gradual and slow to the fast and furious.
Using the same systems, 7AI hopes to improve both monitoring and security of business networks. The business is developing program agents that may perform numerous tasks, monitoring and investigating numerous potential security threats simultaneously, using gen AI. To find new threats, the AI technique can also be trained on a company’s common patterns.
7AI already employs about 35 people and raised$ 36 million last year, helping pay for the new business. ” We think there is incredible talent in Boston,” said Div, who first received training in cybersecurity as part of the famous unit 8200 of the Jewish army. New interviewing is planned “very quickly”, Div said.
Boston “deserves an anchor company to get this talent and drive us forwards,” he said. ” We’re going to do it with the Silicon Valley kind of stuff, because we’ve been there, done that, we know what’s needed to be built. We’re only going to do it here in Boston”.
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