Nitzan Miron
About Nitzan Miron
Nitzan Miron is the Vice President of Product Management, Application Security at Barracuda in the San Francisco Bay Area, with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry.
Title at Barracuda
Nitzan Miron is the Vice President of Product Management, Application Security at Barracuda in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this role, he leads the development and management of Barracuda's Application Security portfolio, including products like Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service.
Previous Roles and Experience
Nitzan Miron has a diverse professional background in the tech industry, with over 15 years of experience. He co-founded and served as President of 6Scan in San Francisco, CA from 2013 to 2014, and was the Co-Founder & CEO of 6Scan in Tel Aviv, Israel from 2011 to 2013. Prior to that, he co-founded MicroExit in Tel Aviv, Israel from 2010 to 2011. He has also worked as a freelancer from 2009 to 2011 and served in various roles at the Israel Defense Forces ComSec Unit and other technology companies.
Education and Technical Expertise
Nitzan Miron studied Computer Science at Tel Aviv University from 2008 to 2011. He has expertise in a wide range of technologies, from low-level hardware design with NAND gates on FPGA chips to high-level programming with Python. His technical skills also include experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, particularly in the context of application security solutions.
Podcast Contributions
Nitzan Miron has shared his insights on application security in various discussions and podcast episodes. He has participated in in-depth discussions about application security vulnerabilities, including Confluence, Log4J, and VMware. He has also discussed current application security threats and protection strategies, and was featured in a podcast episode discussing the state of application security in 2021.
Roles in Software and Security
Throughout his career, Nitzan Miron has held various roles in software and security. He worked as a Software Architect and Embedded Software Engineer at the Israel Defense Forces ComSec Unit, and as a Software Engineer at IXI Mobile and Intelligent Computer Solutions, Inc. His early career involved a QA Programmer role at GlobaLoop, which spanned five years.