A world-renowned expert in web application and information security, Ory Segal has over 15 years of experience. Ory is currently employed at Akamai, as Sr. Director of Threat Research, leading a team of top web security & big data researchers. Prior to Akamai, Ory worked at IBM as the Security Products Architect and Product Manager for the market leading application security solution IBM Security AppScan. While at IBM, Ory received the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA - the highest technical award at IBM), and have filed numerous patents in the field of application security. Ory is serving as an officer of the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and was an OWASP Israel board member.