Yaron Kassner is CTO and co-founder of Silverfort, a provider of unified identity management technology. He is a recognized expert in cybersecurity and big data technology. Prior to founding Silverfort, Yaron served as a big data expert consultant for Cisco and also worked on big data analytics and machine learning algorithm projects at Microsoft. Yaron served at the 8200 elite cyber unit of the Israel Defense Forces and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.