Nir Polak

Nir Polak is CEO and co-founder of Exabeam. He has 13 years experience in information security, including executive experience setting company strategy, driving execution, building new products and bringing them to market. While at Imperva, he set the company product strategy, and launched and managed the worldwide services organization. Polak also held engineering positions at Adjungo Networks (acquired by Flash Networks) and Shopping.com (acquired by eBay). He has a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from The Interdisciplinary Center in Israel.

  • The Difference Between Detecting A Potential Breach And Disclosing A Disaster
    11/11/2015

    As we approach the end of 2015, it’s time to look back at some of the biggest breaches that rocked the data security and prevention world and reflect on the lessons learned. As I started to think back on the top stories over the last year, the first one that comes to mind is from February, which detailed the U.S. State Department’s inability to control a data breach more than three months after its detection.