# Shahar Ben-Hador

> Shahar Ben-Hador is the CEO and co-founder of Radiant Security, an adaptive AI SOC platform based in Pleasanton, California. A cybersecurity veteran of nearly two decades, he climbed from IT administrator to become Imperva's first CISO, then led product at Exabeam before founding Radiant in 2021 with Barry Shteiman to help security teams triage every alert without drowning in noise. Radiant raised a $15M Series A in November 2023 led by Next47.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-founder at Radiant Security
- **Organizations:** Radiant Security, Exabeam, Imperva
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** B.Sc. in Mathematics & Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- **Known for:** Rose from IT administrator to become Imperva's first-ever CISO, Co-founded Radiant Security in 2021 and built an adaptive AI SOC platform, Raised a $15M Series A in November 2023 led by Next47

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Joined Imperva, managing IT infrastructure
- **2014** — Became Imperva's first-ever Chief Information Security Officer
- **2017** — Served as VP & GM at Imperva
- **2018** — Joined Exabeam as CIO
- **2019** — Became VP of Product Management at Exabeam
- **2021** — Co-founded Radiant Security with Barry Shteiman; became CEO
- **2023** — Closed a $15M Series A round led by Next47

## Achievements

- Rose from IT administrator to become Imperva's first-ever CISO
- Co-founded Radiant Security in 2021 and built an adaptive AI SOC platform
- Raised a $15M Series A in November 2023 led by Next47
- Reported reducing analyst workloads by up to 90% and cutting MTTR from days to minutes
- Detected and resolved an attack on a pharmaceutical client's executive team in minutes

## Latest updates

- **2023-11** — Radiant Security closed a $15M Series A round led by Next47 to expand engineering and go-to-market.
- **2026-06** — Featured in a Hacker News video breaking down how Radiant triages the high-risk alerts other AI SOC tools miss.

## Links

- Website: https://radiantsecurity.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shahar-ben-hador
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/radiant_sec

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Last updated: 2026-07-29