BUGSEC
Fernando Bortman has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning over several companies in the technology and cybersecurity industry.
In 1999, Bortman worked as a Fraud Prevention Manager at Partner Israel until 2001. Following that, they joined Comsec as a Fraud prevention and Internet Security Consultant from 2001 to 2002.
From 2002 to 2005, Bortman held various roles at Amdocs, including Sales Engineer, Director of Customer Implementation, and Product Marketing & Management. Fernando then became the Vice President - Customer Business Executive CALA Division at Amdocs from 2008 to 2012. During this time, they established Amdocs offices in Costa Rica, led significant deals with Grupo ICE and America Movil, and achieved substantial revenue growth.
From 2012 to 2017, Bortman worked at Celltick as the General Manager for the CALA and Europe regions. Fernando managed a large P&L and successfully delivered millions of preloads of the company's flagship product.
In 2017, Bortman joined Verint Cyber Intelligence Solutions as the VP Sales and General Manager Americas. In this role, they were responsible for the full P&L, sales, operations, and team management for the Latin America and North America regions until January 2021.
From 2020 to 2022, Bortman served as the Chief Business Officer at Upstream. Fernando played a vital role in providing affordable and secure access to digital services for billions of people.
Currently, Bortman is the Chief Executive Officer at BUGSEC, where they lead a highly trained cyber security crew specializing in keeping environments safe.
Fernando Bortman received their Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) degree in IT from Ruppin Academic Center from 1997 to 2000.
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BUGSEC
BugSec is the strongest Israeli cyber consultancy and red-team services firm. Established in 2005 by noted Israeli ethical hacker Eyal Gruner, BugSec has assembled the best and brightest minds in Israeli cyberspace, including offensive and defensive cyber specialists. Nowadays, our group numbers over 70 experts, with hybrid capabilities in red teaming, hardware and application security, threat hunting and incident response. Our professionals have authored tools, challenges, testing methodologies and training programs. An important pillar of our activity is research and development – our talented security researchers are engaged in the most complex nation-level projects for leading defense agencies in Israel and abroad. They have developed in-house security tools, researched vulnerabilities and detected zero-day exploits. Our customers span across 4 continents, including the most significant bodies in modern industry – financial institutes, critical infrastructure, hi-tech, defense, retail & e-commerce, telecom, etc. Along the years, BugSec has developed some in-house initiatives which later grew to successful products on the market: Versafe - web anti-fraud, anti-phishing, and anti-malware solution, acquired by F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) in September 2013. Cynet 360 - Cynet was created in response to the growing prevalence of advanced persistent threats (APTs) and targeted attacks from unknown origins. Cynet 360, the flagship product, provides an agentless, comprehensive detection and remediation solution for mitigating advanced threats, including unsigned malware and zero-day attacks. BugSec’s Israeli out-of-the-box mentality helps us tackle any challenge in a unique way, and provide rapid, actionable and sustainable security solutions to our trusted customers.