Keren Elazari brings years of experience in the international cyber security industry to her research work. Since 2000, Keren has worked with leading Israeli security firms, government organizations, Global Big 4 and Fortune 500 companies.  Her research work and writing about security trends has been featured by Scientific American, WIRED, GIGAOM, CNN and more. Keren holds a CISSP security certification and MA in Security Studies from the prestigious Security & Technology workshop at Tel Aviv University – where she is a senior researcher with the Balvatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center.  Elazari holds an MA in Security Studies from Tel Aviv University and the international CISSP diploma for security professionals. In 2012, Elazari held the position of Security Teaching Fellow with Singularity University, a private think tank, co-founded and sponsored by Google & NASA in California. As an independent industry analyst, Keren covers emerging security trends and technologies working with GIGAOM research amongt others. In 2014, Keren became the first Israeli woman to speak at the annual TED conference. Keren’s TED talk has been viewed by 1.5 million people online, translated to 25 languages selected for TED’s list of ‘Most Powerful Ideas in 2014’ and for Inc.com’s list of  ‘Top TED Talks of 2014’.