Name: OWASP Israel Cyber Week/pre-Chanuka 2025 Meetup
Start: 2025-12-09T17:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-12-09T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Orca Security

🐝✡ OWASP IL ✡🐝 is excited to welcome you to our special Tel Aviv Cyber Week/pre-Chanuka Meetup event! 🚀

For this extra special meetup, we have an extra special guest speaker coming in all the way from California, **Michael Coates**!

Michael has previously held CISO roles at Mozilla and Twitter as well as other high-profile roles and is a former OWASP Global Board Chairman.

Prepare to dive into the world of Application Security with an evening filled with engaging security topics, networking, and as always - community mingling, food and drinks.

This time, we're delighted to have Orca Security as the host for this gathering and we'll also get to hear about their research teams latest antics!

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**Agenda**:

(talk details further down)

➡️ 17:30 - 18:15 - gathering and food - We will gather at Orca for drinks, great treats, and mingling.

➡️ 18:15 - 18:25 - OWASP Israel Intro + Microphone tuning

➡️ 18:25 to 19:10 - Talk 1: When It Stings: AppSec, AI and Security Breaches
Roi Nisimi and Shir Sadon

➡️ 19:15 to 19:35 Talk 2: tbc

➡️ 19:40 to 20:30 Talk 3: When Everyone and Everything Becomes a Developer: The Rising AppSec Challenge in the Age of Agentic Code Creation & Vibe Coding
Michael Coates

This event is hosted by Orca Security in collaboration with OWASP Israel.

Join us at the event physically as we will not include Zoom or remote participation this time.

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**Talk 1 Details:**

*Title:*
When It Stings: AppSec, AI and Security Breaches

*Bio:*
Roi Nisimi: Senior Cloud Security Researcher at Orca Security
Shir Sadon: Cloud Security Researcher at Orca Security

**Talk 2 Details:**

*Title:*
tbc

*Abstract:*
tbc

*Bio:*
tbc

**Talk 3 Details:**

*Title:*
When Everyone and Everything Becomes a Developer: The Rising AppSec Challenge in the Age of Agentic Code Creation & Vibe Coding

*Abstract:*
AI has broken the traditional boundaries of how software is created and who creates it. From copilots to AI agents that can generate, refactor, and deploy code, we are entering a world where every employee can build, automate, and integrate systems through AI-assisted vibe coding.

This talk explores how the secure SDLC must evolve in response. It examines the challenges posed by AI-generated code, accelerated development loops, and shadow engineering across finance, operations, marketing, and other non-technical teams.

*Bio*
Michael Coates is a leading cybersecurity executive, entrepreneur, and investor with over 20 years of experience spanning CISO, founder, and venture roles. He is the founding partner of Seven Hill Ventures, backing the next generation of cybersecurity startups in the U.S. and Israel. Michael has backed groundbreaking cybersecurity companies such as Cider Security, Noma Security, Sola Security, Defakto, Project Discovery and more.

Previously, Michael served as the first Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter, Head of Security at Mozilla, and Chairman of the OWASP Foundation. He also led Product Security at Shape Security, which was acquired for $1 billion. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded and served as CEO of Altitude Networks, a cloud security startup acquired by CoinList.

Michael is based in San Francisco.

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Josh Grossman

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Michael Coates is a leading cybersecurity executive, entrepreneur, and investor with over 20 years of experience spanning CISO, founder, and venture roles. He is the founding partner of Seven Hill Ventures, backing the next generation of cybersecurity startups in the U.S. and Israel. Michael has backed groundbreaking cybersecurity companies such as Cider Security, Noma Security, Sola Security, Defakto, Project Discovery and more.

Previously, Michael served as the first Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter, Head of Security at Mozilla, and Chairman of the OWASP Foundation. He also led Product Security at Shape Security, which was acquired for $1 billion. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded and served as CEO of Altitude Networks, a cloud security startup acquired by CoinList.

Michael is based in San Francisco.



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