# Gil Friedrich

> Gil Friedrich is the co-founder and founding CEO of Avanan, the cloud email security company acquired by Check Point in 2021. He now leads Check Point’s Workspace Security business. His earlier career included R&D and technology leadership at ForeScout.

- **Role:** General Manager, Workspace Security at Check Point Software Technologies
- **Organizations:** Check Point Software Technologies, Avanan, ForeScout Technologies
- **Education:** B.Sc. in Physics, Tel Aviv University, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Avanan with Roy Rotem, Avi Zelovich, and Michael Landewe., Led Avanan as founding CEO before its acquisition by Check Point., Avanan reported more than 5,000 customers and 2.5 million protected inboxes at the August 2021 acquisition announcement.

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Joined ForeScout at the end of the year, according to his 2021 account.
- **Before Avanan** — Served as ForeScout VP of R&D and VP of Technology; moved from Tel Aviv to New York.
- **2015** — Avanan founded, using the year in Check Point’s acquisition announcement.
- **2021** — Check Point announced the acquisition of Avanan on August 30; Friedrich subsequently served as VP of Email Security.
- **2026** — Listed by Check Point as General Manager of Workspace Security.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Avanan with Roy Rotem, Avi Zelovich, and Michael Landewe.
- Led Avanan as founding CEO before its acquisition by Check Point.
- Avanan reported more than 5,000 customers and 2.5 million protected inboxes at the August 2021 acquisition announcement.
- Named with Roy Rotem and Avraham Zelovich on US patent 10498835, Cloud services discovery and monitoring.
- Avanan ranked 125 on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Listed as a speaker with Fred Clayton for When Work Has No Walls: Engineering Unified Workspace Security at Check Point Engage Chicago, June 17–18.
- **2025-02** — Published Will deepfake threats undermine cybersecurity in 2025? on February 12.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilfriedrich
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FriedrichGilf

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Last updated: 2026-10-25