He spent years studying what goes wrong when a network catches fire. Then he built the fire drill.
Start with the law. Kozlovski earned an LLB cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1997 and an LLM in judging in 2000. He clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court for Vice President Justice Mishael Chesin - a seat that puts you inside the room where the country's hardest legal questions get settled.
Then he kept going. A second LLM and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School, followed by something unusual for a lawyer: a post-doctorate in computer science at Yale, researching proactive security. He co-initiated a Yale-Harvard-MIT Cyber Scholars program and was a research fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. A summer of internet studies at Oxford for good measure.
In the Israel Defense Forces he served as a captain in an electronic warfare unit - the part of the military that fights over the electromagnetic spectrum. It is hard to find a cleaner origin story for a cybersecurity founder.
He wrote things down. He authored and co-edited books on internet law, cybercrime, and digital law enforcement, including Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment (NYU Press, 2006). He was an adjunct professor at New York Law School and co-launched cybersecurity studies at Tel Aviv University's management school, where he founded the cybersecurity program. He teaches in Kellogg's Executive MBA program.
Then he funded other people's bets. As a partner at JVP Cyber Labs - one of Israel's marquee venture franchises - he co-led an innovation incubator in Be'er Sheva, the desert city the country turned into a cyber hub. He also led the tech and regulation practice at the law firm Herzog Fox & Neeman and co-founded earlier startups PLYmedia and Altal Security.
A scholar who became a soldier who became an investor who became a founder. The thread running through all of it: what happens when systems fail, and who is responsible.
One of the major cyber crisis challenges is breaking down silos within organizations.
The expensive part of a cyberattack is rarely the malware. It is the hours of confusion afterward - legal arguing with security, the CEO learning facts from a journalist, nobody sure who has the authority to pull a plug. Cytactic's bet is that this chaos is rehearsable.
Hyper-realistic digital tabletop exercises and posture assessments stress-test an organization before a real attacker does. Customizable playbooks per business profile and risk landscape.
When breach, ransomware, or supply-chain attack hits, a simplified, step-by-step methodology aligns every stakeholder. Out-of-band communication keeps teams talking even when the network is compromised.
Data fusion, real-time response, and decision support tools consolidate readiness, response, and recovery into one platform - so the next crisis starts from a smarter baseline.
An illustrative look at where most organizations actually lose time during a cyber crisis. The technology is rarely the bottleneck.
Illustrative - reflects the coordination-first thesis Cytactic was built around, not a specific dataset.
He holds a doctorate in law and a post-doctorate in computer science - both earned at Yale.
Before founding a startup, he was the one funding them, as a partner at JVP Cyber Labs.
The name "Cytactic" fuses cyber with tactic - a playbook for a digital battlefield.
He has taught the people who run companies, including in Kellogg's Executive MBA program.
He co-initiated a cyber scholars program spanning Yale, Harvard, and MIT.
A summer adjunct lecturer on internet studies at Oxford - a footnote most founders would lead with.
*Yale doctorates: a J.S.D. in law and a post-doctorate in computer science. Profile built from public sources; some statistics are illustrative and labeled as such.