Vega was founded in 2024 by Shay Sandler, who serves as the company’s CEO, and Eli Rozen, who serves as CTO, and has already scaled to more than 100 employees.The founders are veterans of Israel’s cyberwarfare unit 8200 and former employees of Intel’s Granulate, a now defunct application performance optimization firm that the chip giant acquired in 2022 for $650 million.

The founders are veterans of Israel’s cyberwarfare unit 8200 and former employees of Intel’s Granulate, a now defunct application performance optimization firm that the chip giant acquired in 2022 for $650 million.

Attendees will walk away with guidance for how to build robust identity defenses, unify them under a consistent security model, and ensure business operations move quickly without compromise.

SecurityWeek’s 2026 Ransomware Summit will discuss a roadmap for defending the enterprise, from mitigating root causes to mastering recovery, giving security teams the critical insights needed to navigate and neutralize today’s ransomware extortion threats.

Pennsylvania has named Andy Ritter as CISO and Jim Sipe as executive deputy CIO.

Hayete Gallot has rejoined Microsoft as Executive Vice President, Security.

Torq has appointed industry veteran John White as Field CISO.

Security failures don’t always start with attackers, sometimes they start with missing truth.(Joshua Goldfarb)

Living off the AI isn’t a hypothetical but a natural continuation of the tradecraft we’ve all been defending against, now mapped onto assistants, agents, and MCP.(Etay Maor)

The fastest way to squander the promise of AI is to mistake automation for assurance, and novelty for resilience.(Steve Durbin)

Source: SecurityWeek