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Making Powerful Presentations I recently gave a small talk to the 2022 BSidesTLV speakers on how to make powerful presentations, unfortunately i did not record the session but i am sharing the PDF here for everyone PDF

My Keto Journey I have been on a Keto diet for the most part of the last two years (starting at February, 2020). While this has not always been easy, and I did occasionally fall og the wagon - i am happy with the journey and the results. In the past, when i first tried the keto diet, i failed. I could not find the time and effort required to be prepared for a fully ketogenic diet, and as such, failed to adhere to the principals. ...

Well, that blew up… I decided to write a blog post to describe what we’ve done at Profero with the “Hamagen” (shield in hebrew) application, and I ended up writing an article. I translated it, and I am including it below. We also gave some talks, webinars and posts relating to the app, organizing them all below This article is also cross-posted on Medium A million downloads in 4 days: How was the “Hamagen” application developed Nothing about the development process of the “Hamagen” application looks like a development process in a government agency, starting with fast, agile development, including well-known privacy and security experts or ending with releasing the application as an open-source project. Guy Barnhart-Magen, The CTO who took part in the development process, talks about the path to a million downloads in less than a week. ...

This is a rather funny example that Amazon sent out by mistake, but if you think about it - it is also a great example for a tempalte focusing on how to write great messaging format. I am pretty sure this was thoroughly A/B tested :-) Components Some banner with your logo 600x200 pixel wide graphic, maybe including your headline buzzowrd headline summary if this email 3 paragraph, detailing how many words in each sentence - very finely calibrated for user engagement call to action, with a high contrast focus for the user various links and legal lingo footer to cleanly seprate the body of the messaging from the page itself Can’t wait to try this myself… ...

Every once in a while i am asked which security conference I recommend to attend, so I thought I would try to create a little guide that can help guide your decisions. I am somewhat biased, but feel free to take the principals here and rework the results based on your own data. Ranking You can find a lot of information in the online google spread sheet maintained by Inbar Raz These ranking are based on my own personal experience, and the ranking is hugely biased toward my prefrences. ...

It was a lot of fun to return to DC9723 again as a speaker. I think i fulfilled my goal - to reach the younger, less experienced audience - at least if you measure the amount of questions i recieved crypto talks

I had the oppurtunity to give a talk and participate in the panel at the recent HFN event hosting a delegation from Denemark, it was my pleasure to discuss the threats is see in the next 5 years for our field.

My Personal Take on the Maersk Case Study Some images of Mr. Banks presentation were recently shared by Alon Refali from CyberTogether. I didn’t get to see the actual presentation, and I am not sure that a video will follow - so I took the liberty of writing down the slides so I could better comment on them. The threat landscape has changed fundamentally the risk of us being caught up in Nation State activity is real these sort of cyber weapons are orders of magnitude more damaging than traditional malware Prevention is unlikely to be an effective strategy, automated detection and response is key Online back up (standard) is no longer a safe approach Patching is necessary but insufficient Privileged access management takes on an even higher importance ...

Travel to Singapore was more fun than just giving a talk…

My impressions from the ILTAM SW Architecture 2017 conference day