Asaf Biton

Security Team Lead @ Snyk

I am a Cyber Security Researcher with background in both open-source research as well as APT research. I have experience leading and building product-focused research teams. In my free time I like to keep active, read, play the piano and study new languages.

Experience

Snyk

Security Team Lead: Snyk Code

2020 - Present

• Build a new team to support a new product
• Develop new work methodologies and fascilitate planning and design of rule creation and research
• Fascilitate and direct research of new vulnerability trends in open source
• Research and write SAST rules

Snyk

Security Researcher

2019 - 2020

• Discovering, researching, and triaging of new vulnerabilities in the Open Source domain.
• Developing research tools and trainings.
• Writing automations for vulnerability triaging and catalouging.
• Relocated to the UK as part of my role.

8200 Israel Intelligence Corps

Cyber Security Expert

2014 - 2019

• Cyber security R&D team member. Expertise and experience with research of cyber security threats, mitigations, products in both managed and unmanaged networks.
• Professional understanding of network topologies, configurations, and protocols.
• Experience as a team (technological) leader for a period of 2.5 years, managing 2-3 team members, leading complex and ground-breaking R&D cyber security projects including the planning, development and implementation stages of operational processes and methodologies.
• Experience working in an operational environment - Intensive work hours, multitasking under pressure.

Education

Amit Atidim High School

2009 - 2014

• Full "Bagrut" certificate
• Majored in Physics and Computer Science (with honors)
• Graduated top 3 in my class