Team8 Announces Winners of the CISO Village Choice Awards at Annual Cybersecurity Summit

Held this year under the theme "Humans in the Age of Machines," the summit explored the forces reshaping cybersecurity, including AI's impact on offensive and defensive security models, evolving cyber and intelligence threats, risk management within large global organizations, nation-state activity, crisis response, and the next generation of cybersecurity companies.

The summit featured senior leaders from Anthropic, Check Point, Google Cloud, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, Walmart, and OpenAI, alongside CISOs from Fortune 500 companies and global cybersecurity experts. Speakers included Nadav Zafrir, CEO of Check Point and co-founder of Team8, Tim Brown, CISO-in-Residence at Team8 and former CISO of SolarWinds, Tomer Weingarten, CEO of SentinelOne, Sandra Joyce, VP of Threat Intelligence at Google Cloud, Jerry Geisler, CISO of Walmart, Jason Clinton, CISO of Anthropic, Dan Stuckey, CISO of OpenAI, Admiral Mike Rogers, former Director of the NSA and Partner at Team8, General Paul Nakasone, former Director of the NSA, and Amir Zilberstein, Managing Partner at Team8.

As part of the summit, Team8 hosted a cybersecurity innovation competition showcasing emerging startups and connecting them with global CISOs, investors, enterprise leaders, and cybersecurity decision-makers.

Based on votes from members of Team8's CISO Village, an international community representing leading companies and some of the world's foremost security leaders, the following companies were selected as this year's winners:

Most Innovative Startup: alt

Led by co-founders Noa Hen, Nahman Khayet, Efi Weiss, and Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D., alt was recognized for its bold approach, differentiated thinking, and potential to address meaningful cybersecurity challenges in a rapidly evolving market.

Best Performance: Jazz

Led by co-founders Ido Livneh, Noam Issachar, Yonatan Zohar, and Jake Turetsky, Jazz was recognized for its standout presentation, strong execution, and compelling market story.

"The annual gathering of the CISO Village brings together the people confronting cybersecurity's most complex challenges every day," said Liran Grinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Team8. "At a time when artificial intelligence is changing the rules of the game and expanding the attack surface, the direct connection between market needs and technological entrepreneurship is more important than ever. The Village gives us a strategic opportunity to deeply understand the pain points facing the world's largest organizations and use those insights to build the next generation of cybersecurity companies."