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About Me

Amitai Cohen leads the Attack Vector Intel team at Wiz (a cloud security company), managing research of emerging threats to public cloud infrastructure while supporting development of threat detection and risk mitigation capabilities. Amitai's background is in military intelligence and cyber threat intelligence analysis, working in various analysis, training, and leadership roles within IDF intelligence over a period of 15 years prior to joining Wiz. Amitai's interests include research methodology, knowledge management systems, writing, contemplating the philosophy of science (and cyber), reading science fiction and fantasy (or diving into wiki rabbit holes), marveling at new gadgets, and sketching diagrams of technical concepts (currently using the wonderful Excalidraw to do so).

Projects

  • Pivot Atlas - an educational pivoting handbook for cyber threat intelligence analysts.
  • Rhythms of Research - personal essays on research methodology and the creation process of finished intelligence products (mainly from a cyber threat intel perspective, but I try to generalize).
  • hog.net - a "Harry Potter" themed querying exercise for research training.
  • CloudVulnDB (also on Twitter and Mastodon) - an open repository and website set up with the goal of listing all known cloud vulnerabilities and cloud service provider security issues (most of the art is generated with midjourney).
  • Cloud Threat Landscape - a comprehensive threat intelligence database of cloud security incidents, actors, tools and techniques.
  • Crying out Cloud - a monthly cloud security news podcast (with Eden Koby Naftali).