Itsik Mantin is a Director of Security Research at Imperva, leading research activities for protection of Applications and Data Systems from external and internal threats. Over the last 16 years Mantin has been researching, innovating and problem solving in various security-related domains, including web application security, DRM systems, advanced persistent threats, automotive systems protection against cyber-attacks, and more. He is the inventor of 15 patents in these fields. Mantin has shared his knowledge gained in the field as a presenter at Blackhat Asia, OWASP Israel and several exclusive Cryptography conferences such as Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt and Fast Software Encryption. His public researches on the security of industry standards had contributed to the deprecation of the WEP protocol and the RC4 cipher. Mantin holds an M. Sc. in Applied Math and Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute.
