San Jose, CA – Computerworld Names Israeli As Innovative IT People to Watch.

San Jose, CA – Computerworld selected Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak as one of its “40 Innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40.” Ben-Itzhak was selected for the award by a panel of Computerworld editors for his vision in the pioneering of Internet security solutions and his innovative entrepreneurial endeavors.

Ben-Itzhak is now charged with developing and marketing security and antispyware products at Finjan Inc., a San Jose-based provider of Web security systems. Among his other tasks, Ben-Itzhak heads up Finjan’s Malicious Code Research Center team, which scours the Internet and monitors developments in the IT industry in search of new vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit to launch malicious attacks.

Being constantly on the lookout for dangers that might elude others is a skill IDF officials drilled into Ben-Itzhak, who says he has managed to parlay this thinking into his work on many computer security endeavors. [globes]