Silk Security
Silk Security was acquired by Armis in 2024.
Silk is building a Finding Management Platform to create a single-source-of-truth for all security findings. With Silk, security and GRC leaders can automatically organize their findings in a more meaningful way and create a standardized remediation highway to provide engineers/risk owners self-service capabilities to efficiently manage their remediations at scale.
Silk's co-founders came from Goldman Sachs, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, IDF 8200, and successful security startups. Silk is backed by Insight Partners, Hetz Ventures, Jason Witty, Shlomo Kramer, Mickey Boodaei, and other serial cyber executives.
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Yoav Nathaniel
Co-founder & CEO
Silk Security
Yoav was born in Shoham, Israel, and moved to northern New Jersey when he was 10. He studied computer science, before joining Avanan, a cloud security startup that was acquired by CheckPoint, as the first employee. Yoav later moved to Goldman Sachs where he led the firm-wide cloud security engineering team, in charge of the cloud security standards, roadmap, and technologies for the entire organization. Yoav has a passion for technology innovations and customer satisfaction.
In his free time, Yoav practices martial arts, flys planes, and paints