CyberWire Daily - Galit Lubetzky Sharon: Doing your chores brings the best out in you. [CTO] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: June 4, 2023

Galit Lubetzky Sharon, Co-Founder and CTO of Wing Security sits down to share her story and how years in the business lead her to be where she is now. Galit shares her insights from her experiences co-founding her company and bringing it out of stealth mode in early 2022, including why she saw the need for Wing Security and what lessons she learned in the process of founding and launching the company. She started her career as a Colonel in the 8200 Unit gives her a unique perspective on the cyber industry. Galit also shares what she does when things get stressful to help calm her down in the moment and help her clear her head. She says "I think it's very important to do things that you love. It should be something that you come and you bring yourself and your passion and, uh, finding yourself the occupation, the chores, the, the tasks that you love to do brings the, the best out of you." We thank Galit for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And once I finished my degree, I joined the IDF. Usually in Israel, we go to the IDF just after high school, but I switched. I studied first and I joined as an engineer to the IDF. I was very, very lucky to join one to the cyber career that I actually have today. So it took me some time to get to where I am today. I spent 23 years in the IDF. I started as a hands-on, very technical engineer, just exploring and understanding the new capabilities that we just discovered with the internet and the www and http and it turned out to be the most fascinating

thing that we could ever imagine and I was very lucky to be part of a very innovative era actually I would say that it was my first startup, but in a very big organization. I developed over the years. So I was building new solutions and having to convince the traditional approach to adopt new things because sometimes it's not easy to imagine what is the potential and what will be the gain of using a new technology. But once you do the move and you understand that there's no way back, then it was very rewarding.

I established new organizations, new operational methods, and new technical solutions. It makes you stay focused and innovative. My last role in the IDF was in the Defense Division. I was part of the group that established the Defense Division for the IDF. So I walked a mile or two in the steps of the security teams. I know what a headache is that and how the sleepless nights and how difficult it is to manage many different risks from many different aspects and to cope and work with a lot of

different solutions. And I think that that was the major drive when I retired to build my own initiative with my partner and to build a solution to a very demanding problem and an emerging problem in the cybersecurity domain. cybersecurity domain. So I think I'm very personal. I love to work in a team. I love to be part of a group. And I believe that people should love to do what they do. And I love what I do. I love to come to the office in the morning. I love to see the people that I work with. I love to, you know, drink coffee with them, discuss the problems that we have, the challenges that we have, listen to their needs,

listen to their challenges. And I think that together we build something that is ours, that we build together. Of course, we have obstacles on a daily basis. We have a lot of challenges. have obstacles on a daily basis. We have a lot of challenges. But I think that a can-do approach, believing that we will figure out the solution. Even if now, at this exactly minute, minute things may look very dark and complicated the best thing to do is to breathe I go out for a run I clean my mind and I get back with a lot of energy to solve the situation and usually it works. There are many challenges right? Some days are

loaded with challenges and some days are more rewarding but that's the best part of building new things otherwise it would be boring. I think it's very important to do things that you love. It should be something that you come and you bring yourself and your passion. Finding yourself the occupation, the chores, the tasks that you love to do brings the best out of you. I want my customers to look at the solution that they bought from Wing and say, wow, it's the best solution that we bought. And I want my employees and my team to be proud and say, it's so great to work together to build this great solution

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