Israeli IT security start-up Checkmarx Ltd. has hired former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Yaalon as a member of its advisory board. Yaalon, 57, retired from the IDF two years ago. He joined the IDF in 1968, and was appointed its 17th chief of staff in 2002.
Checkmarx was founded in 2006 at Ofer Hi Tech Ltd. subsidiary Naiot Venture Accelerator. The company has developed a query-language-based solution for identifying technical and logical vulnerabilities in code in order to provide a comprehensive solution for automated Security Code Review.
Other members of Checkmarx’s advisory board are IT Structures CEO Zvi Gutterman, who is a also the co-founder of Safend; and Paul Kurtz, a former senior director on the White House’s National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council during the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Yaalon said, "As in the real world, warnings cannot stop attacks - there is a need for prevention by security forces. The same is true for software: there is a need for a systematic solution which can diagnose and help fix security vulnerabilities in the code before hackers can take advantage of them."
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on June 13, 2007
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