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Sanaz Yashar

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Co-Founder & CEO at Zafran Security
📍 Israel

Sanaz Yashar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zafran Security, a threat exposure management platform. Her extensive cybersecurity career includes senior roles at Mandiant and FireEye, built upon a 15-year foundation as a Major in the Israeli Military Intelligences elite Unit 8200. She holds an MBA from Ben-Gurion University.

Born in Tehran, Iran, Sanaz fled to Israel with her family as a teenager after she published an article criticizing the Iranian Revolution. She is passionate about sharing her personal story and empowering women in technology, often speaking at events for female CISOs and CIOs.

Interesting fact: Her remarkable life story and background as a cyber spy in an elite intelligence unit helped inspire the Apple TV+ series "Tehran. "

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Israel
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Topics Sanaz cares about

AI in Cybersecurity
Frequently speaks on the dual nature of AI, emphasizing how it accelerates threats and why it's crucial for building advanced, self-healing defensive systems.
Threat Exposure Management
Her company, Zafran, is built around this concept, focusing on proactively mitigating and remediating exploitable vulnerabilities rather than just identifying them.
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Career

Work history

11-2022
Co-Founder & CEO
Zafran Security
11-2021 - 11-2022
Senior Manager
Mandiant
10-2017 - 3-2022
Manager
FireEye, Inc.
9-2016 - 10-2017
Director of Intelligence
Cybereason
10-2001 - 9-2016
Head of Department
Israeli Military Intelligence
In the press

Media appearances

AI Summit: Sanaz Yashar, Co‑Founder & CEO at Zafran Security. Featured in Apple Podcasts (Boardroom Club)
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Co‑Founder & CEO of Zafran Security Sanaz Yashar Talks …. Featured in YouTube
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Education
1999 - 2002
Bachelor’s of science
Tel Aviv University
2008 - 2010
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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