Our friends at The Record talked with Shtokhamer about lessons learned at CERT. The conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
TR: You recently stepped down as executive director of Israel’s National CERT. Which measures or initiatives did you take while at Israel’s CERT that you’re most proud of or were the most impactful?
LS: There have been a lot of things we’ve done the last couple of years. I think one of the most important ones was establishing our national information sharing platform. After a few months it became our immune platform it would help immunize entire organizations in Israel by having a full API for indicators. That’s how we had the possibility, for example, to share indicators by the click of a button, to share it to an API and have it received by monitoring and patching systems in less than a second. In addition to that, we established some new sectorial CERTs. I was the founder of the financial CERT, we have an energy CERT, we