CISO Talk - From Vilian To Hero

Mr. Jonathan (Jony) Fischbein leads Check Point Cyber Security organization focusing on protecting Check Point assets, employees and services. Mr. Fischbein's career has given him a diverse background as well as a breadth of experience in High Tech Security markets for 20 years developing ad-hoc solutions for large corporations to mitigate security threats and shape the company’s security strategy to cope with upcoming challenges. Jony served as Head of Technical Marketing & Innovation bringing value to customers and motivating regional teams to enhance organizations security posture. A major accomplishment is the new Innovation Center operation with 2 main facilities, the first in Tel Aviv and the 2nd in Silicon Valley California. Formerly, Mr. Fischbein had a key role in Product Organization, Product Management, Security Solutions Architecture. In 1999, Mr. Fischbein created & managed the first Security Operation Center (SOC) at Bank Leumi in Israel and later followed at Bank Discount in 2001. These two unique security entities became the first two-cyber organizations to operate 24x7 in the region. Mr. Fischbein is a Major (reserved) in the Homefront command providing mitigation solutions to large-scale emergency situations (incident response scenarios). During his early service time he received the Home Front Command Excellency Honor for his contributions.