Ariel is a retired Colonel of the IDF’s 8200 Cyber Unit, where he served 20+ years in a wide range of roles in the areas of Intelligence, Information Technology, Offensive & Defensive Cyber Operations and Cyber Warfare. He was awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for technological breakthroughs in the cyber field. Today, Ariel is Co-founder and COO of Mitiga, a leading-edge cloud and SaaS incident response company providing the industry’s most complete cloud investigation and response automation (CIRA) solution.