Aviv Grafi

Aviv Grafi

Founder & CTO

Votiro

Aviv Grafi is Founder & CTO of Votiro, an award-winning cybersecurity company that helps organizations accept safe content and data inbound, at scale, through Votiro’s open, API-based content disarm and reconstruction-as-a-service technology. Aviv is the principal software architect for Votiro’s enterprise solution, Votiro Cloud, which protects against known and unknown malware and ransomware in data, regardless of data source or destination.

Prior to co-founding Votiro, Aviv served in an elite intelligence unit of the IDF, nurturing his passion for finding simple solutions to complex security issues. Aviv’s areas of expertise span the cyber product lifecycle—from strategy and development, through go-to market—along with network security, IDS/IPS/firewall internals, defensive programming, enterprise security penetration testing, vulnerability research, and virtualization.

Aviv speaks publicly on these topics as they are relevant in order to raise industry awareness and push for innovative solutions. Aviv holds a B.Sc. in computer science, a B.A. in economics, and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University. He is the inventor and principal software architect of Votiro’s enterprise protection solutions.

Today’s columnist, Aviv Grafi of Votiro, writes that hackers understand that embedding malicious code into Microsoft Office files and other popular apps can reap huge rewards. Grafi says companies can stop file-borne malware by investing in new technologies and adopting zero-trust principles. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Malware

Why file-borne malware has become the weapon of choice for attackers

Aviv GrafiJanuary 12, 2022

Companies can stop file-borne malware by investing in new technologies and embracing zero-trust principles.

Breach

Stop betting on detection-based security technology

Aviv GrafiJuly 7, 2021

Today’s columnist, Aviv Grafi of Votiro, says companies need stronger, more proactive tools, and must give CISOs a seat at the table –or else we’ll have more major attacks like the ones on SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange, Colonial Pipeline, and now Kaseya.