Dror Fixler, CEO FirstPoint Mobile Guard - Future of Cybersecurity, Israel Tech Powerhouse

Dror Fixler is the Director of the Institute of Nanotechnology, Bar-Ilan University and CEO FirstPoint Mobile Guard, a company that develops best in class #cybersecurity solutions or cellular devices, for security minded companies and individuals. Dror Fixler is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series.

Dror Fixler Interview Focus

1. You have an amazing academic and entrepreneur background. Can you tell us about that and how you have been managing that?
2. Career highlights.
3. Can you tell us about your background as an academic, hacker and serial entrepreneur. What have you learned from your experience in these areas?
4. Can you tell us about FirstPoint Mobile Guard Ltd. company / companies, organisations and focus? Your company protects people, IPs and devices from cellular threats. This is the biggest challenge for our world economic digital flows. Can you elaborate on this?
5. Sensors and the Internet of Things networks are affected by Fake Cell Towers, Man in the Middle Attacks, SS7 & Diameter Loopholes, Denial-of-Service, DDoS, Data Leaks, Malicious SMS, SMS Phishing & Hijacking, Malware Injections, Location Tracking, Stingray Attacks. Can you elaborate on this?
6. Your company is part of the World Bank Group, and you are part of the 3GPP and GSMA 5G Security committee. Can you tell us about how these organisations are tackling this?
7. The Darker Side of 5G Mobile Networks and Why Enterprises Need to Up their Mobile Security. Can you elaborate on this?
8. With AI, nanotechnology and biology biohacking increasing power and other disruption tech, how do you see the main trends in tech and society?
9. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations when it comes to education and special cybersecurity?

Dror Fixler Biography

Prof. Dror Fixler is an established entrepreneur with decades of hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry. He previously founded a pay by mobile startup, Raging Mobile (acquired), served as CTO Monitel A.N. Technologies Ltd., (telecom probing services), R&D and management positions at ECItelesystems and Septier, part a founding member of the Israeli HLS forces SIGINT group.

Prof Fixler Is a member of the 3GPP Partnership Project, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and GSMA 5G committees. He has led development of various telecommunication system and projects for many communication provider’s including: Fraud management systems, SS#7 network management and monitoring system, callback blocking
system, billing verification and inter exchange billing system. He has also built a GSMA-interface stack, for monitoring and intrusive systems.

He has been awarded top industry accolades; he received President  International Fellowship Initiative Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. He was honored with the European Science Foundation’s Plasmon-Bionanoscience Award in 2015. In addition, he received an award from the Wolf Foundation to promote science and art for the benefit of
mankind.

Prof Fixler holds 13 patents, had published over 85 scientific publications and has organized 12 conferences. He is currently Head of the Bar Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and a Professor of Electrical Engineering.

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