Israel Barak named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at 7AI

Israel Barak has been named the first CISO at agentic AI SOC provider 7AI. He most recently served as CISO at cybersecurity firm Cybereason and is described as an Israeli intelligence veteran who co-founded Q.rity.

According to the release, Barak will build and lead a security organization supporting customers that adopt the 7AI model. The company says the role includes expanding its team of AI security engineers and security experts working directly with enterprises. The release says the team helps organizations move from human-driven SOC workflows to agentic security operations.

The release says his more than two decades of cybersecurity leadership cover incident response, threat intelligence, cyber warfare infrastructure and enterprise security operations. Barak led global security strategy at Cybereason, 7AI says, and worked closely with organizations defending against nation-state activity and sophisticated cyber threats. The company says his background also includes training teams in defending against advanced threat actors and developing proprietary security technologies.

Based in Boston and founded in 2024, 7AI is growing its team in go-to-market and AI Security Engineering roles, the release says. According to the release, autonomous AI agents in the 7AI Agentic AI SOC Platform correlate signals across security tools and investigate security alerts. According to the release, more than 2.5 million alerts were processed by 7AI agents in production environments during the last year. According to the release, 7AI's PLAID operating model pairs its autonomous AI agents with dedicated AI security engineers who integrate the agents into customers' existing security environments.