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January 5, 2021
Globes Conference: Cyber in 2021
Adv. Anat Even-Chen participated in Globes' "Material for Thought" conference on the cyber industry. Anat was featured on a panel about the effects of a cyber crisis on an organization, where she discussed how companies should prepare for upcoming challenges in 2021 in this field.
September 7, 2020
Cyber Attack on Tower Semiconductor: What is the Effect on the Company’s Activity?
Tower identified a cyber attack on its systems and released a statement saying it had taken measures to prevent the event’s further development. Yuval Lazi and Anat Even Chen, partners from our firm that represent companies dealing with cyber breaches, were interviewed by Globes on the matter. They explained the attack’s impact on the company, the company’s different alternatives of how now to respond, and when and if a company should report a cyber attack.
February 23, 2020
Chambers TMT Guide 2020: Law in Practice
As experts in the TMT field, our firm was asked to contribute the Israeli law and practice overview for the Chambers Israel TMT guide. In their overview, Micky Barnea, Daniel Lorber, and Anat Even-Chen discuss legal considerations for big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. They also address key data protection principles, the challenges with IT service agreements, privacy matters, and more. As a whole, the TMT guide offers insights for each jurisdiction.
January 1, 2020
New Standards in Cyber Protection for Companies in the Government, Infrastructure, and Finance Sectors
The Governmental Cyber Security Unit has published a new directive according to which material service providers to government, infrastructure, and finance bodies will be required to adopt a common and unified standard for cyber protection.
December 30, 2019
Yuval Lazi Summarizes 2019 in Cyber
The People website interviewed cyber experts, including Yuval Lazi, about prominent trends in the cyber world in 2019.
In a world where the cyber-attack industry is valued at more than $1 trillion a year, and attacks are increasing year after year, Yuval Lazi explains that corporations have begun to internalize that technological solutions alone are not enough. Corporations have thus begun to adopt a more holistic and broader approach.
November 18, 2019
Representing Cymplify in Acquisition by Check Point
Our firm represented the IoT security company Cymplify in its acquisition by NASDAQ-listed cloud security company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. for USD 5 million.
May 27, 2019
Yuval Lazi at the Largest Annual International Cybersecurity Event
Adv. Yuval Lazi will participate in the upcoming Cyber Week event. Yuval will take part in the UK-IL Roundtable on the topic of Online Safety.
November 20, 2018
Barnea represented Senetas Corporation Ltd.
Our firm represented Senetas Corporation in a USD 8 million investment in the Israeli cyber company Votiro Cybersec Global Limited
July 10, 2018
Memorandum on the Cyber Defense and National Cyber Directorate Law
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office published a memorandum on the proposed Cyber Defense and National Cyber Directorate Law. This law is designed to regulate the National Cyber Directorate’s purpose, functions, and powers.
June 18, 2018
Yuval Lazi Attends AlphaC Demo-Day Event
Adv. Yuval Lazi participated today in the AlphaC Demo-Day Event. AlphaC is the first Israeli IoT and OT security acceleration program of its kind. It was created by TAU Ventures in partnership with the NEC Corporation of America.
June 11, 2018
Barnea Represented Investor in Israeli Cybersecurity Company Claroty
Barnea advised an investor in relation to a $60 million investment in cybersecurity company Claroty. The company specializes in cybersecurity for industrial control networks.
January 18, 2018
Barnea & Baker McKenzie Seminar – Under Cyber-Attack: Securing the Breach
We are hosting today together with Baker McKenzie an event focusing on the steps companies can take to prevent and respond to cyber-attacks. Adv. Yuval Lazi will discuss the immediate actions to take after a cyber-attack, as well as the duties and importance of the "Cyber War Room."
September 4, 2017
Government Approves National Policy for Safe Identification
Israel's government recently set forth a decision approving the key points of a national “safe identification” policy. The purpose of this policy is to define how a person’s identity is to be verified when receiving government services in a digital mode, in order to improve the services being provided to residents, and to simplify the access to these services.
February 14, 2017
Draft Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing
The Antitrust Authority published for public comments a new guidelines draft on the subject of information-sharing between competitors for the purpose of contending with cyber threats.
January 30, 2017
Roundtable with VC's Investing in Cyber Security
Barnea will host today, together with Israel-America Chamber of Commerce and the BIRD Foundation, a roundtable meeting with Mr. Kevin Stine, Chief of Applied Cybersecurity Division at NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology), an agency of the US Department of Commerce. The roundtable will include senior managers of Israeli VC’s community and Cyber Security startups.
January 12, 2017
Hosting the South Carolina Business and Research Delegation
Barnea is hosting today a business and research delegation from South Carolina, comprised of business leaders, researchers and business developers at hospitals and research Institutions and economic development officials. They have come to Israel to promote collaboration with Israeli companies in Biomed, Cyber and Tech Automotive. Micky Barnea, our Managing Partner, will give a lecture on the legal aspects of doing business in Israel.