Yul Bahat

Yul Bahat is a veteran global cybersecurity expert and Director of Cybersecurity at Kiteworks, with over 20 years of experience spanning public and private sectors. He has led cybersecurity and intelligence initiatives at GOV.IL, shaping national-level threat detection and proactive defense, and later served as a CISO/CTO in international organizations across Europe. At Kiteworks, Yul drives bug bounty programs, internal red team development, and application security efforts—integrating threat modelling and continuous web-application pentesting into secure CI/CD processes. A thought-leader and keynote speaker, he advocates for advanced approaches such as isolation over mere detection. Yul also mentors cybersecurity professionals and coaches career development, shares insights on AI, ML, and bug bounty cycles, and consistently champions secure-by-design principles across cloud and enterprise environments