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Guy Horowitz
Partner at DTCP and Investor
Guy Horowitz is a prominent investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently associated with ESH.vc, where he plays a significant role in sourcing and managing investments. His professional background includes extensive experience in growth equity and venture capital, particularly in sectors such as cybersecurity, marketing technology, and digital transformation.
Professional Experience
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ESH.vc: Horowitz is a partner at ESH.vc, focusing on investments in innovative technology companies.
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DTCP: He has been involved with DTCP since June 2015, leading investment efforts in various technology sectors. His portfolio includes notable companies like AppsFlyer, Digma, and Lightspin, among others.
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Board Roles: Horowitz serves on the boards of several companies, including SafeBreach and PerimeterX, where he contributes to strategic decision-making and governance.
Education and Background
Horowitz holds a degree from the University of Haifa. His career spans various leadership roles, including a corporate vice president position at Deutsche Telekom AG, where he managed the company's business development and venturing activities in Israel.
Interests
In addition to his investment activities, Horowitz has expressed a passion for technology innovation and music, indicating a diverse range of interests beyond his professional endeavors.12
Highlights
AI - as expected - was the highlight of BlackHat. Everyone talking AI and security. But there are actually three different and distinct “AI”s when it comes to cyber security:
- Cyber for AI
- AI for Cyber
- Cyber against AI
I will try to highlight the main differences:
- Cyber for AI refers to the cybersecurity measures, techniques, and tools designed specifically to protect AI systems, models, and data. As AI becomes more integrated into various sectors, ensuring that these systems are secure from tampering, theft, and other malicious activities is crucial.
Examples: AIM security (and several competitors such as Lasso Security, Modzy etc) allow customers use GenAI technology without compromising security. The use of GenAI exposes the organization’s data, IP and proprietary knowledge, so they must be secured. Companies like Robust Intelligence, Hidden Layer, Calypso AI etc. focus on securing AI models and ensuring their integrity, using tools for AI model testing, validation and monitoring, helping their customers protect their models and model-based applications from attacks.
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AI for Cyber is using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to enhance cybersecurity operations. This can include threat detection, incident response automation, analyzing large datasets for potential vulnerabilities and threats - none of this is really new. Companies like Darktrace and even PANW have been doing this for a while. Vectra (and more contemporary solutions like Opus Security & Mesh Security) have taken it to the next level of automation / ease-of-use.
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Cyber against AI is about identifying non-human actors and AI and keeping networks / processes safe by preventing them from being accessed by AI agents acting as humans. In a way, that’s “old cyber” - malicious actors have been automating their attacks forever. But with the advent of AI, the diversity and speed at which it gets done requires a whole different set of attributes - most critically speed and efficacy. I guess this is where we would expect to see innovation in the use of AI against AI. War of the robots is upon us.
#AI_Cyber #Cyber_AI #Blackhat
Magic.
Sometimes this entire cyber ecosystem looks like a trick show. Assemble a group of talented individuals, task them with a real world problem in a category dominated by a handful of giants, and abracadabra a new category leader / contender / challenger is born.
Behind the scenes, it's all about hard work, perseverance and dedication. What seems like magic is actually the result of endless practice and experience. These skillful teams have honed their craft over time.
A huge shoutout to Island and Spin.AI for hosting an enchanting evening filled with different kinds of magic. 🪄
#BlackHat #Magic
