Dror Hevlin named Chief Information Security Officer at Cynomi

Cynomi named Dror Hevlin as its Chief Information Security Officer. Hevlin previously served as CISO at CyberArk and, before that, at SolarEdge and the Israel National Cyber Security Authority.

According to the release, Hevlin will oversee Cynomi's information security strategy for protecting critical client data and mitigating client cyber risks. The release says he will drive development and implementation of internal and external security strategies at Cynomi. The release says he will also oversee vCISO product methodologies and the company's cybersecurity risk management practices, and will ensure their alignment with evolving industry regulations and standards. Cynomi says Hevlin will additionally assume a field CISO's responsibilities. David Primor, co-founder and CEO of Cynomi, welcomed Hevlin to the executive team, according to the release.

The release says Hevlin has previously worked as a CISO in publicly traded companies. As CISO at CyberArk, an identity security company, he had a role in infosec for its data, technology and cybersecurity sectors, according to the release. At the Israel National Cyber Security Authority, he served as its first CISO and oversaw IL CERT along with other national cybersecurity initiatives, the release says. The release says his career also includes 15 years in Israeli Defense Forces units, among them 8200 and Matzov, the IDF infosec unit. For the past three years, Hevlin has been a member of the CISO Board of Advisors at Cynomi, the company says.

The company says Cynomi's vCISO platform allows consultancies and service providers to deliver structured cybersecurity services to SMEs at scale. David Primor, formerly a Lt. Colonel in IDF unit 8200, founded Cynomi with Roy Azoulay, who founded and headed Oxford University's startup incubator, the release says. According to the release, Cynomi has offices in the USA, the UK and Israel. Cynomi says it secured $37 million in Series B funding in April, in an investment co-led by Entrée Capital and Insight Partners.