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Nir Gaist

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Nir Gaist (born September 18, 1988) is an Israeli entrepreneur with a focus on information security and cyberattack defense. He is founder and chief technology officer of cybersecurity company Nyotron. He was 17 years old when he began to develop Nyotron’s PARANOID..[1], the world’s first OS-Centric Positive Security product for strengthening endpoint protection.

Gaist was born in Kibbutz Sde Nahum and lived there until the age 14 when his parents moved to Herzliya. In 1997, at age 9, he co-founded a computer lab that provided support and repair services. It later evolved into an online storage and technical support services provider, and eventually Nyotron.

Cybersecurity Career[edit]

In 1998, at the age of 10, he began independent study at Technion with a focus on engineering studies[2]. At this time, he was the youngest university student in Israel. Simultaneously, he began white hat hacking by breaking into large sites and providing information security services to the largest banks in Israel.

In 2004, he founded Blacklist[3], a site that helped users remove themselves from the mailing lists of spammers.

In 2005, at the age of 16, he provided information security consulting services to Microsoft. He was then invited to represent the company on the Knesset science and technology committees on internet and media. In this role, he occasionally advised Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer on matters of security.[4]

In 2007, Gaist relocated to Bucharest, Romania, where he developed the PARANOID prototype. Upon his return to Israel in 2008, he began locating investors for further development. The same year, Gaist built a curriculum for urban high schools in Tel Aviv that focuses on information security and hacking education[5]

In 2009, Nyotron was established by Gaist, with help from his brother, Ofer. Nyotron offers tools to detect, prevent, analyze, and respond to zero-day exploits, persistent threats, ransomware, malware, and unknown threats. Five years later, Nyotron shipped the first version of its PARANOID product.[6]

In 2016, Gaist was featured in Forbes Israel’s 30 under 30 list[7]

Thought Leadership[edit]

Gaist is a regular speaker at cybersecurity industry events. In 2018, he spoke at the Black Hat Conference[8], ISSA SV Chapter[9] and the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit[10]. In 2019, he spoke at the Cyber Security Exchange Conference[11] and MISTI Incident Response eSummit[12]. He also contributes to industry publications, such as Dark Reading, CyberScoop, TechRadar and others.

RIPlace[edit]

In 2019, Gaist and Nyotron announced the discovery of a new form of distributing ransomware that was able to remain undetected by traditional antivirus software. RIPlace works by using the DefineDosDevice function to create a DOS device that links to the file being encrypted. This DOS device is then passed as the target path for a Rename function, and as a DOS device name are not expected, it returns an error.[13]

CTO of the Year[edit]

In 2020, Gaist received the Gold Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Award for Chief Technology Officer of the year (Security Cloud/SaaS)[14]

References[edit]

  1. Lappin, Yaakov. "JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PARANOID..." Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  2. Mintz, Michael. "'Don't Be Paranoid About Computer Attacks," Says Israeli Wizard Kid". No Camels. No Camels. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. Kenan, Ido. ""We Spam Spammers"". Nrg Maariv. Nrg Maariv. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  4. Klein Leichman, Abigail. "Meet Nir Gaist, cyber-security wunderkind". Isarel 21C. Israel 21C. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  5. Klein Leichman, Abigail. "Meet Nir Gaist, cyber-security wunderkind". Isarel 21C. Israel 21C. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  6. "Nyotron raises $10m led by Meir Shamir". Globes. Globes. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  7. Forbes. Forbes http://www.forbes.co.il/rating/list.aspx?en6v0tVq=ID. Retrieved 25 September 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. "Security is Easy - How I've Mapped All Legitimate OS Behavior". Black Hat. Black Hat. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  9. "Security is Easy - How I've Mapped All Legitimate OS Behavior - Evening Meeting". ISSA Silicon Valley. ISSA. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  10. "Cloud Summit 2018 Nir Gaist Keynote, Security is Easy". Youtube. Ingram Micro. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  11. Giast, Nir. "Nir Gaist". CS hub. CS hub. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  12. "Incident Response eSummit". Misti. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  13. Abrams, Lawrence. "New RIPlace Bypass Evades Windows 10, AV Ransomware Protection". Bleeping Computer. Bleeping Computer LLC. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  14. "2020 Winners 16th Annual Info Security PG's 2020 Global Excellence Awards". Info Security Products Guide. Info Security Products Guide. Retrieved 26 February 2020.


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