Israel Barak

Israel Barak is the chief information security officer of 7AI, a title the agentic-AI security company announced for him in March 2026.

A live contributor profile page from CSO Online, fetched for this profile, still names him as chief information security officer at 7AI.

Career path

SecurityWeek's industry roundup describes him as an Israeli intelligence veteran who co-founded and served as CEO of Q.rity, a national cyber defense services firm later acquired by the CITI Venture Capital International group.

Barak brings more than two decades of cybersecurity leadership spanning enterprise security operations, cyber warfare infrastructure, threat intelligence and incident response.

Before 7AI, he was CISO at Cybereason, where he led global security strategy and worked with organizations defending against sophisticated cyber threats and nation-state activity.

The 7AI role

At 7AI, Barak builds and leads the security organization that supports customers as they move from human-driven security operations centers toward agentic ones.

Explaining why he took the job, Barak said: "No mission is more inspiring for me than to reimagine and build the way future security programs, architecture, and operations will look as we leverage AI in more meaningful and impactful ways."

Scale of the work

7AI says its agents processed more than 2.5 million alerts and completed over 650,000 security investigations in production environments over the preceding year, reducing investigation time and eliminating 95 to 99 percent of false positives for enterprise customers.

Neither 7AI page states the exact dates of his prior work at Q.rity, so this profile leaves that period unstated.