1Description
I am an entrepreneur, a researcher, and an engineer. My doctoral and master's work was done in the Cyber Security track of the Information Systems Engineering Department at Ben-Gurion University, as a member of the Implementation Security and Side-Channel Lab under Dr. Yossi Oren.
After Voyage81 was acquired, I built and ran information security at ODDITY as the company became publicly traded. Today I work independently as an AI-first cybersecurity advisor.
Academic research areas
- Mobile hardware security, especially scenarios where hardware meets software: a replaced component, a driver that trusts it, and what follows.
- Side-channel information leakage.
2Voyage81 and ODDITY
I co-founded Voyage81, a deep-learning computer vision startup acquired by IL MAKIAGE in 2021. IL MAKIAGE grew into ODDITY, an AI-driven consumer tech company, where I served as VP of Information Security through the company's listing on Nasdaq as $ODD. I now advise companies independently, as an AI-first cybersecurity advisor.
3Publications
| Year | Paper |
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| 2023 |
Oren Shvartzman, Adar Ovadya, Kfir Zvi, Omer Shwartz, Rom Ogen, Yakov Mallah, Niv Gilboa, Yossi Oren
Elsevier Computers & Security 127 (2023)
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| 2020 |
Omer Shwartz, Amir Cohen, Asaf Shabtai, Yossi Oren
Elsevier Computers & Security
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| 2018 |
Omer Shwartz, Yael Mathov, Michael Bohadana, Yuval Elovici, Yossi Oren
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
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Rom Ogen, Omer Shwartz, Kfir Zvi, Yossi Oren
12th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 2018)
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| 2017 |
Omer Shwartz, Yael Mathov, Michael Bohadana, Yuval Elovici, Yossi Oren
17th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS 2017)
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Omer Shwartz, Amir Cohen, Asaf Shabtai, Yossi Oren
11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 2017)
Press coverage, six articlesThe Register: How to pwn phones with shady replacement parts Ars Technica: Secret chips in replacement parts can completely hijack your phone's security Boing Boing: Hiding malware in boobytrapped replacement screens Sophos: Touchscreens at risk from chip-in-the-middle attack Heise (German): Handy-Ersatzteile können Malware einschleusen Mako (Hebrew): חוקרים ישראלים מזהירים: אל תתקנו את הסמארטפון | |
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Omer Shwartz, Guy Shitrit, Asaf Shabtai, Yossi Oren
Workshop on Security for Embedded and Mobile Systems (SEMS 2017)
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| 2014 |
Ruth Barshir, Omer Shwartz, Ilan Y. Smoly, Esti Yeger-Lotem
PLOS Computational Biology 10(6): e1003632
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4Vulnerabilities
An information disclosure vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver that could let a local malicious application access data outside its permission level. Reported to Google and fixed in the June 2017 Android security bulletin.
5Honors
| 2017 | Android Security Rewards, 2,000 USD for finding and reporting CVE-2017-0650 |
| 2012 | Best Israeli team, EMC Israel Data Science Challenge |
| 2012 | 3rd place, Intel student programming contest |
| 2011 | 1st place, Intel student programming contest |
6Teaching
| Term | Course | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2017 | 372.1.2102 Advanced programming | Teaching assistant |
| 372.1.4117 Information security management | Lab | |
| Spring 2017 | 372.1.1105 Intro to software engineering | Teaching assistant |
| Fall 2016 | 372.1.2051 Algorithms | Teaching assistant |
7Notes
I spend a lot of time exploring how technology behaves when pushed slightly outside its comfort zone. That can mean experimenting with hardware, operating systems, low-level code, high-level development, academic research, or whatever else looks interesting enough to take apart.
I enjoy understanding systems from the inside out, whether they are electronic, computational, or occasionally held together by assumptions that deserve to be tested.
When I am not around a keyboard, I SCUBA dive, rock climb, and bike around the desert surrounding Be'er Sheva.
8Contact
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