Work — Gal Kapanawa

By 2005, Kapanawa had moved into the private sector, joining a then-obscure cybersecurity firm named Sillan Cybernetics . The company gave him a small team and a mandate to "build something unbreakable."

Unlike traditional disaster recovery, the Phoenix Protocol does not try to remove an attacker. Instead, it accelerates the attack's effects within a decoy environment while spinning up a pristine, parallel instance of the network. To the attacker, it looks like they are winning; in reality, they are feeding data into a honeypot while the real business continues uninterrupted. Gal Kapanawa

When asked in a rare 2023 interview with The Register if he believes we will ever achieve true cybersecurity, Kapanawa laughed softly. "No," he said. "But we can achieve strategic ambiguity . We can make the cost of success too high to justify. That is the art. That is 's legacy." By 2005, Kapanawa had moved into the private