Itai Tevet

Itai Tevet is co-founder and CEO of Intezer, a company with offices in New York City, New York, and Tel Aviv, Israel, that makes AI software to triage and investigate security alerts. He started it with Roy Halevi, now chief technology officer, and Alon Cohen, the founder and former CEO of CyberArk.

Handling Nation-State Attacks in the IDF

Tevet held cyber security leadership roles in the Israel Defense Forces, where he handled nation-sponsored attacks every day. “It was absolutely very stressful, dealing with the sheer volume that we did, but I had people who I trusted and there was no challenge that we couldn’t mitigate,” he said in an Intezer founder profile. By the end of his service he knew he would start a company. “It was very clear for me in my last years of service that I wanted to create a company,” he said.

Intezer's Code DNA Mapping

Intezer started with what it calls code DNA mapping, which compares the code in a file against code seen before so analysts can tell where malware came from. It later used that forensic work to build a product that investigates alerts on its own. “I know what it's like to work in SOC and incident response teams, while every day you have too much work, too many alerts, and not enough people,” Tevet said in a 2024 company announcement.

He expects analysts' jobs to shift toward checking the AI's work. “Analysts become supervisors - they verify the AI is doing the right work, that it's not straying off course, give it fine-tuning. Instead of putting out fires all day, they can finally think,” he told Calcalist's Ctech.