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title: "Ron Bennatan"
url: "https://gosec.tv/speakers/ron-bennatan/"
type: "speaker"
published: "2026-09-12T03:47:00+00:00"
modified: "2026-09-25T23:42:15+00:00"
author: "admin"
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Ron joined Imperva through the acquisition of jSonar where he served as CTO and co-founder. He has been a “data security guy” for 25 years and has worked at companies such as J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Intel, IBM and AT&T Bell Labs. He was co-founder and CTO at Guardium which was acquired by IBM where he later served as a Distinguished Engineer and the CTO for Data Security and Governance. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has authored 11 technical books. Previous Speaking Experience: Ron has spoken at the Nashville Cybersecurity Summit; Brightalk Virtual fireside chat: The state of data security; and CyberSummit USA.