Cybersecurity - Ariel Pisetzky, VP of IT & Cyber at Taboola

The UPSTACK Podcast

In our second episode, co-hosts Alex Cole and Greg Moss are speaking to Ariel Pisetzky about cybersecurity. They discuss the best strategies to reduce risk at your weakest link, the importance of backups being immutable, and how you can stay on top of cybersecurity in the world of innovation. They even touch on pop culture references from Ghost Busters to the origin story of cybersecurity in the 1984 movie “War Games.” For the past 25 years, Ariel Pisetzky has been working in all aspects of the IT world. Managing AS1680 (one of the first ISPs networks in the world), building data centers pre-cloud era, running all-cloud native operations and back to hybrid solutions. Today, Ariel leads a group of IT professionals that work to implement state-of-the-art solutions, from Open Source to home grown to traditional enterprise software, across Taboola's global infrastructure. Ariel has held multiple positions as CIO and CISO for web-facing operations from startups to publicly traded companies. Ariel also worked as a cyber consultant for government agencies and cyber defense sector.