Sygnia Expands Investment in Operational Technology Security with Hire of New Vice President

Industry veteran, Rafael Maman, will oversee Sygnia’s business across the Industrial and Critical Infrastructure domains

Sygnia, a leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, today announced the appointment of Rafael Maman as Vice President of Operational Technology (OT) Security. Rafael joins Sygnia with over 25 years of practical and management experience in OT Security, data analytics, secure digital supply chain management and strategic consulting. His career to-date has transcended several regions, working in EMEA, North America, and Singapore.

Before joining Sygnia, Rafael was a Cybersecurity & Privacy Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), as well as the OT Security Leader at PwC's Global Cyber Impact Centre and the OT Security Leader of PwC-EMEA. Rafael began his career with Shell where he served as an Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer at the company's R&D center, and later served as Deputy Business Group Manager and Shell's Principal for Supply Chain Management. He was also Managing Director of PetroQuantum – a strategic energy consulting firm – and was CEO of Care Dynamics – a Digital Healthcare pioneer.

“We are honored to welcome Rafael Maman to the Sygnia team,” said Ram Elboim, CEO of Sygnia. “Over the last few years, we have worked extensively with clients in the industrial and critical infrastructure domains. In parallel, we have seen a significant increase in cyber attacks targeting critical OT operations, resulting from the growing attack surface due to OT-IT connectivity. It is our mission to help our clients remain vigilant and protect their business in an ever-changing cyber landscape. Rafael brings a wealth of experience to deepen Sygnia’s investment in OT security – ensuring our clients have operational continuity and integrity across their systems.”

Rafael holds a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) in Information Systems Engineering from the Technion – Israel's Institute of Technology. He also served as an officer in Unit 8200, the IDF’s elite cyber and intelligence unit.

“I am thrilled to be joining Sygnia’s prestigious team of cybersecurity professionals,” said Rafael Maman, Vice President of OT Security at Sygnia. “Sygnia’s impressive track record in proactively protecting, responding to and remediating some of today’s most sophisticated attacks remains a key factor in why global organizations continue to turn to our experts for help in gaining resilience across their valuable assets. I look forward to helping strengthen Sygnia’s position as the incident responder and cybersecurity consultant of choice for the world's industrial enterprise and national critical infrastructures.”

To learn more about Sygnia and its cybersecurity expertise, visit: https://www.sygnia.co/

About Sygnia

Sygnia provides incident response and cyber security consulting services, helping organizations worldwide to quickly contain and remediate attacks and proactively enhance their cyber resilience. The proven track record, commitment, and discretion have earned Sygnia the trust of security teams, senior executives, and management boards at leading organizations worldwide including many of the Fortune 500 companies. Sygnia is a Temasek company, part of the ISTARI Collective. For more about Sygnia please visit www.sygnia.co.

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