NEWS
Kobi Paz appointed Acting CEO of Bezeq
B
ezeq, the Israel Telecommunication Corp, one of Israel’s
leading telecommunications providers, has announced that
Bezeq’s Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Kobi
Paz as Acting CEO of Bezeq. Kobi Paz (54) has been working at
Bezeq for the past 11 years, during which he has served as Vice
President and Head of the Business Division. Paz has decades of
telecommunications experience in the business market. Prior to
joining Bezeq, he served as CEO of DoubleU, of the Clal Industries
Group and as Chairman of Alcatel Israel.
Between 2002–06, he served as CEO of Alcatel Israel and before that
he held a number of senior positions at Nortel.
Bezeq currently has nine VPs who are in charge of the private
division, business division, technologies and network, marketing
and innovation, human resources, operations and logistics, legal,
corporate communications, regulation and finance. Paz will take up
his position as Acting CEO immediately and concurrently with his
position as Head of the Business Division.
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EDP invests in Israeli cybersecurity
company Aperio Systems
Data Point Capital, a venture capital fund
focusing on high-impact companies and
Scopus Ventures, a venture capital fund
investing in category-defining companies,
have teamed up with EDP in this joint
investment of US$4.5 million.
The funding will help support the growth
and development that Aperio Systems has
witnessed worldwide.
Following highly successful pilot projects
across sites in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa (EMEA), Aperio Systems has moved
on to the installation phase at some of the
world’s largest utility companies.
E
DP, through EDP Ventures, has invested
in Aperio Systems, an Israeli cybersecurity
company that supplies the last line of defence
to protect critical infrastructure and to
guarantee the integrity of operational data.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
“Aperio Systems impressed us as a truly
innovative company during a successful
pilot in which the system was rigorously
tested and showed its ability to prevent
sophisticated attacks (APTs: Advanced
Persistent Threats). The utility sector is
embracing the digital world at an incredible
speed – with devices including smart
meters, Internet-connected home devices
and smartphones – making us ever more
dependent on sensors to protect our most
critical systems from malicious attacks and
potential damage. By protecting critical
assets – whether they are isolated systems or
IoT connected to physical systems – Aperio
Systems offers resilience and security,” said
Luís Manuel, Executive Board Member at
EDP Inovação/EDP Ventures.
Cyberattacks, particularly those that have
received a lot of public attention, have
demonstrated that attackers are able to
penetrate critical systems. Once attackers
breach a system, the only way to cause
severe and long-lasting damage is to blind
operators by falsifying data. Aperio Systems
detects when systems are lying by displaying
altered data, enabling the plant’s operators
to prevent damage before it is too late.
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