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Asaf Cidon

Asaf Cidon is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (jointly affiliated) at Columbia University and a Barracuda advisor. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Email Protection at Barracuda Networks. In this role, his team developed Barracuda's Impersonation Protection and Incident Response products. Asaf was previously CEO and co-founder of Sookasa, a cloud storage security startup that was acquired by Barracuda. He completed his PhD at Stanford.

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