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"My appearance is not that of an expert in computer attacks" - voila! Of money

2023-02-16T13:29:25.957Z


At the university they thought he was the technician to fix the air conditioner and he founded his company with the help of the military discharge grant. An inspiring story


Reuven Aronshuvili, 38 years old, founder and CEO of CYE (Photo: Niv Aronson)

Name

: Reuven Aronshuvili, 38 years old, founder and CEO of CYE.



Who I am

: very family-oriented and warm. Behaves in a friendly manner even in management, loves creativity, does not believe in solving a problem the way it was solved before, but differently - and encourages my people to behave this way.



Roots

: The whole family is from Georgia. I didn't know my grandparents. Father lost them following a tragedy and immigrated to Israel alone in his 20s. He arrived in the Tzur Shalom neighborhood in Kiryat Bialik, where all the "Georgians" as they were called then, were sent. Mother's parents immigrated in the - 1970. They were farmers, and when they immigrated to Israel, grandmother worked in a banquet hall and grandfather was engaged in the trade in kiriyas.



The parents met, got married and moved to Acre.

Father was a hired carpenter and mother a nurse.

We lived in housing estates in Borla, an aggressive neighborhood.

There are few people there who have not become involved in crimes.

But everything begins and ends with education, and the values ​​at home were tough: the parents came from a European education according to which studies are the most important and they taught us to be responsible.


The financial situation at home was difficult, I am not asking for mercy, but money was available and luxuries were not.



There was no money for classes and basic things, at the grocery store you shop around, a bit like in the "80s" series of Channel 13. The interesting part is that we didn't feel it, because everyone was in the same situation.

Unlike friends, with divorced parents and single mothers, we had a warm home.

A normative and normal family, one of the exceptions in the neighborhood.



My girls

: There were many opportunities to deteriorate, because from the end of school until the night we hung out with friends in the neighborhood.

This also included making noise and damage for laughs and up to more serious places.

It's all about basic values.

I started working from the age of 13.

I worked in a grocery store as a shelf arranger, cleaner and washer.

The parents didn't like it, but my brothers and I helped with the household.



I took gifted tests and in the first grade they wanted to move me up a grade, but I didn't want to leave my friends and this was repeated every year until a late age.

I was in gifted courses, in the 10th grade I finished matriculation with five units in mathematics and at the age of 17 I trained people who improved their matriculation in mathematics, all of them were much older than me.

I enjoyed starting to make a living on my own and thinking in a financial-economic way.

The most profitable were the private lessons.



The ambition, the biggest dream of mine and of our whole neighborhood, was to work at "Raphael", my mother used to say all the time 'with God's help you will get there'.

When I started studying in the reserve, a sorting officer asked me where I wanted to go and I immediately said "Raphael".

He was in the market.

"No 8200? 81. Mossad, Shin Bet?

What are you talking about?".

"The lecturer started shouting at me, "Why did it take you so long to arrive to fix the air conditioner?

The students cook here." Some people were very hurt" (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Atuda

: I studied computers and electronics, and in the twelfth grade we won first place in a national competition for computers and electronics and the prize was awarded at Tel Aviv University.

I traveled with my teacher, Salim Costa, whom I really liked, and there I met Itzik Turgeman, who was the head of "Manahat Atidim", a project founded by the Wertheimer family and Shaul Mofaz, to promote youth in the periphery to an academic reserve track.



Turgeman asked me where I was going.

I was in pilot training and he told me that I had to come to the reserve and study.

When I told my friends what they offered me, they said, leave, go be a truck driver, you will have a C license at the expense of the army.

The prize distribution was at the beginning of the week and on Wednesday I already took a psychometric test, without having seen such a test before.

I did emergency psychometrics that cost 1,200 shekels, which my future parents financed for me from now on.

All around me were people who were tired from studying, and I arrived with a pen, because I didn't know that I only needed a pencil, so someone lent me one.



After a few weeks Turgeman called and asked how it went, I got close to 800 and I was upset that I couldn't get a perfect score.

I was accepted to computer science and mathematics at Tel Aviv University and the Technion, and graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors.

I have worked in many fields, mainly as an exercise examiner since my first degree and I gave many private lessons that have benefited me very well.

I was able to support myself, spend time and help at home.



Disadvantages

: My wife, a lawyer, who after finishing her studies at Interdisciplinary, worked in everything other than law, mainly HR, today she is the HR in our company.

I don't think about my life without her.

She is the better and smarter side of the family, and what makes everything work.

We met at the age of 14 on the birthday of a friend from the neighborhood, who was in your class at another school. She came from a better neighborhood in the city and if I were her parents, I would not let her hang out with me then, mainly because of the gold that adorned my body. We started dating at the age of 17 and at the age of 27 we got married We have three children and we live in Herzliya.



Reserve 2

: My appearance is not that of someone who specializes in attacking computers and that's the fun part.

One day I was late for class in linear algebra and the lecturer started yelling at me, "Why did it take you so long to get there to fix the air conditioner? The students are cooking here."

Some people were very hurt, I take it with humor.



I went through processes in 8200, 81 and then I got to Mtsov, which I had no idea what it was and I was sent to a course at the school for computer professions. When the placements came I was lucky enough to be on the establishment team of Section 21, a team that uses attack tools to find out the state of competence, simulate an attack to To rise above the failures. I was there for seven intense years. There is something in the IDF ecosystem - academia - industry, the capabilities are accelerated.

You come out after seven years feeling 30. At some point I reached a management level and wanted to go back to technology.

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"The only funding for establishing CYE was my release grant" (Photo: Niv Aaronson)

CYE

: I finished my master's degree, I was released, and a few months before the BCM I went to one job interview and realized that this was not it. I was disappointed with the professional level in citizenship and came to the conclusion that there was a need that needed to be filled. After a few days, I founded CYE. The only one was my discharge grant.



I had concerns about starting without a significant financial back, because why not work at Microsoft from nine to five, where everything is working as it should. The guys from the army started to be released and joined me as partners, Matan, Gabi, Eyal and Haim, fine human capital. We began to develop technology that uses offensive tools to sample the environment, identify security weaknesses and draw a graph that visually describes how the attacker can reach each point. The mathematical model helps us calculate the organizational risk and what the cost of fixing the failures will be. Security



Prioritization

: In an average organization with cyber security problems, the question is what to start investing in, because the amount of loopholes is large.

You have to do some kind of prioritization and choose where to put the next dollar.

We adapt it to the organizational budget and map the maximum that can be done for a given amount.

It should be emphasized that we do the mapping, guide and accompany, and it is the organization that fixes the security breaches.



In one of the European countries we worked with a local electricity company and identified a weakness that, if exploited, could cause death in nursing homes.

There were also cases of danger of remote control of instruments in operating rooms, on airplanes.

Do I walk around with a smartphone?

Yes.

Is he dangerous?

Of course, and that's why I don't take it with me when I shower because I know you can easily activate the camera remotely with it.

Understanding the capability of a device is the first and most important path of protection.



persistent perception

: The types of attacks are getting better all the time, especially in the era of the cloud, where corporate assets are everywhere and the challenge is becoming more and more complex.

We believe in returning control in a measured way.



NSO

: An excellent company with good people.

Offensive cyber is needed, because if it wasn't needed, it wouldn't exist, but it starts to get complex when its use reaches the gray areas.

The question is who is responsible, the commercial company and the enforcement mechanisms.

If this tool prevented 100 terrorist attacks in the world, it can be treated like a weapon.

And if it is, a weapon in the wrong hands can cause harm.

Therefore there must be government supervision.

"I connect with the protest, but not with those who are thinking of abandoning Israel" (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Crisis in high-tech

: today we have 200 employees and we continue to recruit, contrary to the market trend.

This is possible because our financial conduct was calculated and considered, we are a profitable company and therefore the impact of the crisis on us is minor.

Honestly, it's hard for us to see what's happening around us, when friends lose their jobs and we try to help.

But you have to remember that Israeli high-tech is not falling apart, it is very stable and undergoing a process of streamlining.



The high-tech protest

: I connect with the protest, but not with those who are thinking of abandoning Israel.

I don't believe in the concept of "it's hard for me and I'm leaving", but rather to express a relevant protest, in an orderly manner and in accordance with the law, and solve the problem.

There is a dramatic division here, everyone talks about the justice system and wants to support democracy, which is the basis of the basis.

This is not a political matter, but an essential one.



leisure

: What is?

Given that I have one, I like to cook and play soccer with friends on Tuesdays at seven in the evening.

My children are my number one hobby.

Before the covid I was barely here and now I try to be with the family as much as possible.



Looking ahead

: the goal is not an exit.

It might sound optimistic and cheesy, but I really want to make a difference and contribute to the world.

  • Of money

Tags

  • High tech

  • start up

  • 8200

  • Acre

Source: walla

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