Meitar Law Offices has leased 30,000 square meters comprising 17 floors in one of the two towers that will be built by Tidhar Group according to an agreement in which the details were published today Meitar will pay an estimated NIS 150 per square meter per month The lease is for 25 years with an option to extend Meitar is one of Israel's largest law firms with over 670 employees including more than 450 lawyers The law firm is especially strong in the tech sector When completed the Beyond project will comprise 300,000 square meters of space in two towers of 60 and 81 floors The 60-floor tower will include 500 small apartments for rent The project will include mainly office space as well as commercial medical and sports facilities as well as a conference center The project is due for occupancy from the first half of 2026 The project is located 250 meters to the east of Tel Aviv Central (Savidor) railway station overlooking the Ayalon highway (Road 20) and will be next to a future light rail station and bus terminal Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on November 15 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2024Get email notification for articles from Eden Solomon FollowSep 24 has been fighting for her return home every day for nearly a year was kidnapped from her post at the Nahal Oz military base and has been held captive by Hamas for 354 days Two of Israel's largest law firms have announced the appointments of new partners Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz is adding eight new partners and Meitar is adding nine new partners Uri Nesher has left Tulchinsky Stern and joined Pearl Cohen while the firm is also promoting seven associates and patent attorneys to partner They will work alongside the 85 partners in the firm out of an overall team of 200 lawyers and patent attorneys working in offices in Tel Aviv Uri Nesher who specializes in representing venture capital funds and investors a senior patent attorney specializing in representing pharmaceutical companies; Adv who specializes in intellectual property and regulation; Dr a senior patent attorney who specializes in the Life Sciences Group; Adv from the Pearl Cohen New York Trademarks Group; Adv Lee Ardon who specializes in IP litigation; Adv "These talented lawyers and patent attorneys with rich academic and professional curriculum vitae is an additional step in the deepening of expertise of the firm in various areas thanks to the uniqueness of our firm and its ability to provide our clients with comprehensive legal services in Israel and worldwide." who becomes partner in the corporate and securities department who becomes partner in the planning and building department They will join the firm's 127 other partners Another top Tel Aviv law firm Gornitzky & Co has added four new partners to work alongside its 70 partners Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on January 19 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd Israeli law firm Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal has announced that Dr Michael Bricker is joining as Senior Counsel to the firm's tax corporate-securities and corporate governance groups Bricker has unique global and executive business experience having been in senior executive legal and tax roles for the last two decades at public and private companies and having worked out of Tel Aviv M&A and commercial transactions in different jurisdictions and designed corporate governance policies and compliance programs Bricker was the General Counsel and member of the executive board at a London-based privately-owned principal investment company and the General Counsel and Head of Tax and member of the executive management at Amdocs (Nasdaq: DOX) he was an independent director on the board of Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO) Israel's largest publicly-traded holding company serving on the compensation and audit committees chairing the independent board committee overseeing the restructuring of the company into two holding companies and serving as a member of the independent board committee overseeing the debt restructuring of its shipping subsidiary Zim He currently serves on the board of directors of Welltec Bricker has also served as an adjunct professor at the law faculty at the University of Tel Aviv and has published several articles in the area of international tax that have been cited in court decisions and the tax literature Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on August 16 the widow of Sergeant first class (res.) Yedidya Eliyahu A moving and heartfelt moment occurred this week at Mount Herzl when Meitar Eliyahu the widow of Sergeant First Class (res.) Yedidya Eliyahu who was killed in the Gaza war in early November brought her newborn son Porat Aviya to his father's grave at the military cemetery for the first time – a mere few weeks after his birth Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Meitar gently caressed the engraved stone with the name of her beloved Meitar delicately placed Porat Aviya on the Israeli flag draped over his father's grave in the place where a loving father would embrace his young son the 25-year-old Meitar shared her feelings: "I placed Porat Aviya on the gravestone so he could be as close as possible to his father Yedidya," she said with heart-wrenching honesty "I went up to the grave because it had been a long time This is his father's grave and a meeting place This gravestone is what remains and the place to go to him they sit on the grave because that's what they want and it's comfortable for them." Sergeant First Class (res.) Yedidya Eliyahu was killed in battle in Gaza two weeks before his 26th birthday "They mobilized Yedidya during the Simchat Torah holiday and he was among the first forces to enter Gaza Yedidya remained on reserve duty until he fell," his widow told Israel Hayom He was an involved father in raising the children and had a golden touch This is a war of mitzvah (required by Torah].' Yedidya did not express any fear or worry to me." Video: Yahyah Sinwar flees in the tunnel at the start of war / Credit: IDF The birth of Porat Aviya and raising her children bring Meitar many joyful moments alongside the challenging coping process: "Yedidya left us a gift in this world and we need to look at the good – new lives coming into the world but it's difficult and not simple to raise him alone We try to have Yedidya part of our lives as much as possible I pray that I will succeed in passing on to the children who he was." 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Today, many of the Jewish residents are considered “squatters,” and the state evicts them without appropriate compensation usually to make room for high-end housing projects under the legal guise of the Absentee Property Law the agents of Palestinian dispossession and erasure become the secondary victims of the same ideological project the State of Israel and the Tel Aviv Municipality extract profits from the assets of Jewish residents who are not even the original owners most recently to make way for the construction of the Tel Aviv light rail Together with the erasure of the last remains of Palestinian existence in Salama these evictions expose the ethno-capitalist machinations of Zionism We interviewed three Israeli Jews who grew up in Kfar Shalem in order to elucidate this process and to explore the implications of dividing the loot of the Nakba along ethnic and socioeconomic lines Longtime educator and social activist Pazit Adani was born in 1977 in the Yedidia neighborhood Her family first arrived in Jaffa in 1945 as part of a group of 450 Habbani Jews from Yemen organized by her father’s second cousin Zecharia Adani After spending some time in transit camps (ma’abarot) and following the occupation of the Palestinian villages in 1948 members of the Habbani community were settled on the eastern lands of Salama (today Ramat Hen and the Ramat Gan National Park) and in Moshav Bareket founded on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Tira in the Ramla Governorate As part of the planning of the National Park in the 1950s members of the Habbani community who lived east of the village were relocated to the southern lands of Salama, the municipality newsletter reported that the neighborhood contained “40 to 50 homes” (which probably belonged to the Palestinian farmers of Salama) and was “home to some 250 families (20 of which are Ashkenazi and the remainder Yemenite immigrants).” In a map produced by the Labor Ministry’s Survey Department in 1959 “It was located on a well that became sewage because there was no infrastructure in the neighborhood.” Like other areas where the state settled Jewish families in Palestinian properties the Yedidia neighborhood was neglected by the Israeli authorities and the neighborhood is also neglected in terms of sanitation the [agricultural] labor of the neighborhood’s inhabitants goes to waste … There is no school or kindergarten in the neighborhood.” members of the Habbani community have sent hundreds of letters to the authorities repeatedly asking to regulate land ownership and provide solutions for the inhabitants the neighborhood was considered “a municipally undefined area,” and although it was officially annexed to Tel Aviv in 2001 Yedidia still suffers from neglect and infrastructural problems she and her friends in the neighborhood realized the huge disparity between them and their Tel Avivian peers Her grandfather worked in the municipal sanitation department which removed garbage all over the city; in the Yedidia neighborhood eviction orders have been hovering over the entire neighborhood “It’s a disadvantaged community by definition a community subjected to eviction orders,” she continues we are still fighting for our house.” This situation “affects every move,” and “each time it weakens the community a little more.” from an ambivalently romantic perspective — one that yearns for the wide spaces of childhood But she is also aware of the lives that were here prior to 1948 She says that the neighborhood’s inhabitants used to call the different parts of the city by their Arabic names etc; only when she was 15 did she realize that the names were of the Palestinian communities Ayala Springer was born in 1950 and came to Salama with her family at the age of 4 Her parents and uncles had previously been living in the homes of Palestinian refugees in Al-Sheikh Muwannis (on whose lands Tel Aviv University would later be constructed) despite the fact that they were not new arrivals; her mother’s parents lived in Kerem HaTeimanim and her father’s parents lived in the Yemenite neighborhood in Silwan which they called “the village,” for about a decade She waxes nostalgic as she describes life there: “Take it from me both of which were “homes of Arabs who were expelled.” The first home “had these big doors [in the style] of the Arabs,” Springer recalls All doors opened onto the inner courtyard.” She remembers the warm relationships between immigrant families from various countries: “Everyone spoke Hebrew Sometimes we forget they changed [the name] to Kfar Shalem Springer describes the old village as a main street with a central square around which were a restaurant (“Madmon’s”) grocery stores (“Menachem’s” and “Gindi’s”) The houses were on the small streets across the main road Maybe here?’ The place is already full of high-rises and all the [bare] hills that used to be here are gone The pleasant childhood memories do not compensate for her sense of being exploited The state settled Springer’s family in the houses of Salama’s Palestinian refugees and neglected the village until it became worthwhile to cash in on its profits by selling the land to developers we’ll give you a house,’ and built high-rises on their land It’s really a pity — it used to be a beautiful Springer says that they “didn’t know who lived in the houses but we knew that the Arabs escaped or were expelled “My aunt’s house in Al-Sheikh Muwannis [also] used to be an Arab’s house with those large and heavy doors with those keys,” she continues “What about the people who used to be here a boy and a girl [who lived there]; it looks like also a grandpa And if Israel hadn’t expelled anyone and people simply tried to live together in the village in buildings erected in 1967 not far from the village center where Jewish immigrants — mainly from Morocco and Iran — were housed “They brought all the people from the airplane to Salama,” he says “and my mother was neighbors with her former neighbor in Isfahan.” According to Banay most Iranian Jews did not want to immigrate to Israel and the Jewish Agency went to great lengths to encourage them to do so “They used to come and screen those films in the children’s schools [in Iran],” says Banay ‘I want to join the army.’ Because what did they show him about the army I want to go there and meet a girl’ — [it looked like] a much more secular world.” Banay’s uncle thus “went to Israel and then my grandma freaked out.” She took her entire family and immigrated.” Banay says that if you were to ask most of these people today whether they would have made the same decision if given the chance again Banay describes a segregationist social fabric Even after buildings were constructed further out the center of what had been Palestinian Salama remained the neighborhood hub and where the children of Kfar Shalem used to play in the afternoons it was a “territory of chaos.” The village center was “less orderly The idea was that’s where you go to run wild to cut loose.” In the village center there was a mosque: “You could sneak in He clearly remembers the difference between the way the municipality treated the village center and the new neighborhoods you couldn’t build treehouses because the municipality kept destroying them; over there But there were uglier sides to the neighborhood how they used to abandon cars there — steal a car and tear it apart [They would] steal a cow or a sheep from a flock [and] take everything — all the bones remain behind.” Garbage from factories was also dumped there; “it was kind of extraterritorial.” the Tel Aviv Municipality’s deliberate neglect originally designed to slowly erase Palestinian existence from space “The municipality did nothing,” Banay continues There were these abandoned shacks that you didn’t know whom they belonged to Everything looked like somebody left it and went away.” the municipality would come and demolish these remains but this only revealed more of Salama’s Palestinian past “We would come the day after and suddenly discover that there was a well next to the house which until now we didn’t notice,” Banay remembers the original structure of the house that used to be on top of it [was visible] this was before we were born.’ Today I know that it was from an earlier period of the village.” Until a community center was built in the neighborhood in the 1980s the Salama Mosque was used as a youth club and a meeting place and there are rooms you can enter,” Banay recalls “And upstairs there’s a staircase leading to some room on the roof that’s very beautiful The scenery is amazing because it’s built at the highest spot in the village.” Banay remembers asking why the mosque was there “People said: ‘There used to be Arabs here And there was a legend about a treasure hidden in the tomb.” the Tel Aviv Municipality sealed the mosque and began evicting the residents of the buildings next to it in order to leave the mosque in the middle of a large park The gradual demolition of Salama’s original residential buildings only made the mosque look more foreign in the Judaized space “People were highly ambivalent about this building,” says Banay “Nobody said ‘Let’s destroy it,’ [but] it didn’t represent anything religious to them It became a building that you’re used to seeing in the middle of the village because all of the nearby houses were very similar to it because the nature of the [new] construction is highly modern it looks even less relevant to the area,” he continues “The population is also changing: people from a different socioeconomic class are moving there and they’re not used to seeing a mosque right next to their house — it looks weird to them Mizrahi Jews came from a place where it was normal [to see] a mosque near your house [but] people from other ethnic communities or other areas find it very odd.” “When the land started becoming a little more expensive “There was the story of the Yehoshua family: they came to evict them and they shot [Shimon] and we would burn tires and block roads,” he continues “People there felt that the system was against them and that they were the last in the order of priorities.” When asked if the people of Kfar Shalem were opposed to the destruction and erasure of Palestinian Salama The struggle was against the evacuation of the people of Kfar Shalem without compensation; they did not speak about their complicity in the ongoing Nakba the people there were also busy making a living,” says Banay and they don’t have spare time for [other] agendas — they want to survive Banay released a documentary film titled “Longing,” in which he returns to his childhood neighborhood after having moved to central Tel Aviv Banay tries to decipher the Salama story: Who were the village’s original Palestinian inhabitants How did the Jews who took their place feel about it How did the Jewish inhabitants’ struggle against their own eviction develop The film is named for the longing that Banay’s mother felt to return to her childhood home in Isfahan in Iran But in choosing to direct a film about Salama Banay wanted to explore his own sense of longing I used to come and visit [Salama] every once in a while,” he says never realizing why I was attracted to the mosque who used to tell me what it’s like to relocate and how she misses her home,” he continues I understand her; I moved four kilometers to another [house] in a better area — if I feel that longing she must have felt it a thousand times stronger My empathy intensified when I went through it myself.” Banay was exposed to the longing of Salama’s Palestinian refugees in the course of making the film when he heard stories about their visits to the village after the 1967 occupation which enabled some Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to visit what was then Israel “One would take a bus from Ramallah in the morning knock on the door of the house where he used to live and say ‘Can I see my house?’ And people would let them in.” recounts in the film that from time to time Banay emphasized that there was never any resentment or fear toward Mas’oud but only hospitality and a sense of a shared tragic destiny “People here support the Likud [rightwing party] — they’re no leftists and back home.” He says that “the sympathy was very natural,” given that many of the Jews who were settled in Salama had also left their original homelands in Iraq Among the stories of visiting Palestinians Banay kept hearing about refugees who asked to enter a house or a well then removed a brick and took out gold that had been hidden there before the Nakba “Even Abu Sami told me that his grandfather used to stash [gold] within the well,” says Banay “Then other people in the village wanted them to keep theirs they put all the construction waste of the demolished houses into that well a resident of Kfar Shalem interviewed in Banay’s film the underground pre-state Zionist paramilitary group at the age of 14 because she spoke fluent Arabic She says that due to Salama’s strategic location this was “the place that needed to be cleansed first of all” in 1948 but after a while she told the Irgun commander and future prime minister that this was a village of farmers that posed no threat This didn’t stop the Zionist militias from expelling the residents in 1948 “They fled in a terrible hurry,” she says in the film One of the scenes in Banay’s film documents a meeting between Margalit and Abu Sami “There was nothing to do but sit next to them and watch because they shared an amazing sense of common destiny,” he says “They spoke like they have known each other for a century had they let the Mizrahim negotiate with the entire Arab world it would have turned out much better,” Banay says “You have a shared culture that helps bridge gaps much more than having a European arrive and negotiating in a completely different style without understanding all these little nuances of respect.” The text includes excerpts from “Remembering Salama,” a booklet produced by Zochrot for the purpose of documenting the places that Israel occupied and destroyed during the Nakba since 1948 A version of this article was first published in Hebrew on Haokets. Read it here and a member of Zochrot's Decolonizing TLV group an activist and a member of Zochrot's Decolonizing TLV group Our team has been devastated by the horrific events of this latest war The world is reeling from Israel’s unprecedented onslaught on Gaza inflicting mass devastation and death upon besieged Palestinians as well as the atrocious attack and kidnappings by Hamas in Israel on October 7 Our hearts are with all the people and communities facing this violence We are in an extraordinarily dangerous era in Israel-Palestine The bloodshed has reached extreme levels of brutality and threatens to engulf the entire region are seizing the opportunity to intensify their attacks on Palestinians The most far-right government in Israel’s history is ramping up its policing of dissent using the cover of war to silence Palestinian citizens and left-wing Jews who object to its policies one that +972 has spent the past 14 years covering: Israeli society’s growing racism and militarism We are well positioned to cover this perilous moment – but we need your help to do it This terrible period will challenge the humanity of all of those working for a better future in this land Palestinians and Israelis are already organizing and strategizing to put up the fight of their lives Can we count on your support +972 Magazine is a leading media voice of this movement a desperately needed platform where Palestinian and Israeli journalists and thinkers can report on and analyze what is happening © Copyright 2006 - 2025 Law Business Research Meitar Eliyahu, widow of fallen IDF soldier Sergeant First Class (res.) Yedidya Eliyahu has announced her engagement to Baruch Tzuri Noked of Hebron blessed G-d; we are happy and excited to announce to the world that we Yedidya Eliyahu, 25, was a resident of Karnei Shomron and fought in the Combat Engineering Corps' Battalion 8170; he fell in battle in November 2023. He and his wife were parents of two girls at the time of his death; she gave birth to their third child The son of Rabbi Yoram Eliyahu from Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood and was called to reserve duty on the first day of the war who loved the Torah and loved his work," said Yigal Lahav « Back Meitar Eliyahu, widow of fallen IDF soldier Sergeant First Class (res.) Yedidya Eliyahu on Saturday gave birth to the couple's third child and first son Yedidya Eliyahu fell in battle in Gaza approximately three months ago "With praise and gratitude to G-d for all the kindness and abundance we are happy and excited to announce the birth of our son," the family announced "The blessed G-d should raise this child for his mother in peace and happiness and may he see the vengeance of his father's blood and the complete redemption soon." Gadi Roz's 6-year-old son Meitar is battling a degenerative condition known as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy the front line and the home front have collided his 6-year-old son Meitar is battling a degenerative condition known as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Roz has been pressing the Israeli government — so far to no avail — to approve a promising gene-therapy treatment for DMD describes “fighting two wars” — one for the future of Israel and one for the life of his son the younger of Roz’s two children with his wife was diagnosed with the life-limiting condition when he was 3.  who had never previously heard of the illness who in his civilian life works in high-tech while also studying for a degree in electronic and electrical engineering has been campaigning to convince Israel’s Ministry of Health and the health-care providers to authorize a pioneering gene-therapy treatment approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration last year.  but I realized I had one of two decisions to make,” said Roz.  stop learning and just gather positive experiences.” says there is always a hope and there is always a solution and you just need to find it.”  In the wake of the diagnosis,  Roz has “turned over every stone” to try to find a treatment that would slow the progression of the disease in order to save his son’s life.  Prior to being called up for military reserve service on Oct he campaigned fiercely to get the government to approve a groundbreaking treatment that has displayed promising results.  Roz has spent most of the time since the Hamas attack fighting in Gaza which has made him even more determined to win approval for the new drug he has appeared in the Israeli media — often in uniform — calling on the government and Israel’s medical insurers to green-light a potentially life-saving new treatment for his son — and others like him “It’s the next best thing to a cure that these children have,” he told JI adding that there are around 300 people with DMD in Israel and some 15 would be eligible for the treatment DMD is a progressive condition that causes muscle to gradually weaken and waste away There is no cure and the deterioration is rapid meaning most patients are wheelchair-reliant by early adolescence DMD is caused by a mutation on the dystrophin gene that protects the muscles The devastating syndrome eventually affects all the muscles “in most cases leads to death in the second or third decade of the patient’s life.”  is called Elevidys and is administered in a single dose intravenously It aims to deliver a working copy of a faulty gene that leads to the disease Children who participated in initial trials in the U.S showed sustained motor function over several years when compared with those who did not receive the therapy Elevidys is one of the most expensive drugs in the world Without approval for the medication from the Ministry of Health Meitar and other children like him face a bleak future.  Cyrille Cohen is head of the laboratory of immunotherapy at Bar-Ilan University He outlined the system of approving new medical treatments in Israel.  pharmaceutical treatments undergo a rigorous approval process initiated by pharmaceutical companies and overseen by health ministries,” Cohen said “This process comprises three clinical phases: Phase 1 assesses safety in a small group of healthy volunteers; Phase 2 evaluates initial effectiveness and safety in a larger patient group; and Phase 3 involves a diverse patient population across multiple centers to assess broad effectiveness “While FDA or EMA [European Medicines Agency] approval can expedite the process in Israel the Ministry of Health independently evaluates each treatment highlighting the country’s regulatory autonomy Approval in one jurisdiction does not guarantee automatic approval in another emphasizing the importance of thorough assessments by each regulatory body.” The Roz family is currently hoping that the gene therapy can be added to the “sal trufot” – or medicine basket – which will ultimately decide whether or not it will be funded by the state.  “After a treatment is approved for use in Israel the question remains who will finance it,” Cohen said which is updated every year by a committee of experts includes all the medicine/treatments that will be financed by the state of Israel “The considerations are multiple and include for example what the efficacy of the treatment is and who and how many will benefit from it,” he said “Unfortunately as resources are limited not every treatment can be approved.” Roz continues to petition the committee responsible for approving new medications to approve Elevidys in Israel so that Meitar’s treatment would be covered at no cost because if I die in the war nobody else will fight for my son,” said Roz explaining that his wife is herself registered disabled after suffering head injuries during her time in the IDF He performs his military duties “with a full heart because I know that I’m fighting for a just cause,” he said.  “It’s for my family and my people and my country,” he said “If I die I will be complete with this decision because I understand the meaning of what I do in the military and my soldiers have a responsibility for the civilians of Israel He describes Meitar as a “loveable child” who is “very funny and always smiling.” He loves to play with his dog and his 9-year-old sister Liri who also struggles with the situation but who Roz describes as the “glue” in their family Meitar is “fully functional,” according to his father “but he has a ticking clock above his head” as the treatment is thought to be most effective in younger patients He endures a grueling schedule of physiotherapy and other treatment each week to ensure he stays fit and mobile.  “He’s like a professional athlete but the difference is that one does it for fortune and fame and the other does it to save his life,” said Roz.  But despite his engagement with the media — and his continued service in the military — Roz has received no response from the government The Ministry did not respond to a request for comment from Jewish Insider “Every day I worry what will happen if something happens to me,” he said “Because if I die even my life insurance won’t be enough to pay for it [the treatment].”  Thinking about what will happen if the government does not approve the treatment is bearing down on Roz.  “I could take the crowdfunding route and maybe I will have to eventually but I’m scared to take this step because it’s a lot of money to recruit my parents’ house and my wife’s parents’ house And Roz is also extremely mindful of others in his position.  referring to the 300 children who have the illness and the 15 eligible for the new medication.  can’t the army give up on one person?’  “I said to her in our family that doesn’t happen which is why I go to miluim,” using the Hebrew word for reserve duty it would be “selfish” to just worry about his son Copyright © 2025 · All Rights Reserved 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and time in procuring and managing a comprehensive security stack to detect and prevent cyber incidents in their environments relatively little attention is given to monitoring a key risk factor attackers leverage during attacks – the monitors themselves Many attacks leverage privileged IT or security systems to distribute malicious payloads and operate under the radar evading the most common detections by hiding in the standard “noise” created by these tools malicious insiders or external attackers compromising privileged credentials will often go undetected because their accounts are expected to perform “loud” activities regularly While this growing problem has led to some of the most devastating attacks we’ve seen in recent years it has a sensible solution – monitoring the monitors See More: How to Tackle Cybersecurity Threats maybe the ultimate nightmare scenario for any CISO Protecting organizations from the very people charged with their protection may seem daunting made even less appealing by the relative rarity of such attacks the potential damage a compromised or skilled IT insider can do is so great that it mandates serious attention In a major cyber incident targeting a cryptocurrency exchange we discovered that attackers spent months establishing relationships with a senior IT person and eventually socially engineering them into installing “research software” on their company laptops Once attackers had access to this highly privileged laptop they could stealthily leverage the IT person’s privileged credentials to establish a foothold in the environment and create transactions transferring millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from the company’s wallet Security organizations must adapt and monitor the monitors to address this significant risk Security and IT employees may need high privileges to perform their jobs effectively establishing individual activity baselines and alerting can often prevent such attacks When creating and maintaining such detections the following two key principles prove most effective: When IT or security employees require access to the most privileged accounts or sensitive data this access should be made possible only with the approval of at least two privileged users each with their own enforced multi-factor authentication Such Privileged Access Management practices may not apply to all data access as they could significantly slow operations they should be selectively enforced on the most critical assets to protect them from compromise and enable the detection of suspicious or irregular activity by more than one person See More: How to Get Identity & Access Management (IAM) Right Generic detection and security solutions will often need help differentiating between legitimate administrative activity performed by privileged users and malicious activity performed by the same users This often leads to limited monitoring or quick dismissal of alerts for these activities and creates a major visibility gap organizations should create tailored alerts to each privileged user and account based on their standard activity baselines and ensure they are continuously monitored and updated by members of other teams This process enables the continuous fine-tuning of such alerts and immediate detection of rogue activity leveraging compromised privileged accounts In addition to monitoring human users for suspicious activity organizations must monitor their security and IT stack attackers have become more adept at leveraging security and IT tools to execute malicious payloads The notorious SolarWinds supply chain attack made it abundantly clear that the risk of an attacker compromising a privileged IT tool within the environment cannot be overstated.  Monitoring IT and security tools is often difficult as they are trusted “layer zero” infrastructure If an EDR is leveraged to execute malicious code on a host it is unlikely to trigger alerts identifying its operation as malicious if security tools are temporarily tampered with to prevent detection of malicious activities and then reinstated they will often remain oblivious to the tampering To mitigate this risk and effectively monitor the monitoring tools organizations should focus on the following key strategies: By employing multiple data sources to gain visibility and establish alerting organizations can detect tool tampering or compromise through additional tools while it would not be advisable from a cost or security perspective to install multiple EDRs on a single endpoint an EDR agent can be complemented by a SIEM forwarder collecting OS event logs Such a configuration enables the early detection of malicious activity targeting or originating from one of these tools leveraging the additional visibility to quickly respond and prevent the attack from progressing While sophisticated security and IT tool tampering may go undetected by the tools’ built-in detection capabilities they can be detected by environment-specific tailored alerting By creating alerts to identify deviations from standard network and execution activities performed by these tools we can detect many of the more sophisticated attacks As tools are typically managed consistently within a given environment simple alerts identifying irregular peaks in communication volume and execution of rarely seen commands enable the rapid detection of potential tampering These alerts must be continuously maintained and updated to ensure a low rate of false positives Effective proactive threat hunting is the most apparent mitigation to monitoring and visibility gaps which should detect what continuous monitoring misses A crucial point that enables the detection of security and IT tool tampering is threat hunting begins where automation ends Automated analyses are helpful and should be incorporated into standard monitoring only manual comprehensive threat hunting designed to hunt for sophisticated attacks missed by existing alerts will have a real chance of identifying them.  Research from Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) has shown that despite investments of time and money, 65% of board directorsOpens a new window believe their organizations are at risk of a material cyberattack within the next year The continuous improvements made to security tools and protections of critical data are leading more attackers to search for novel solutions This adversarial cycle incentivizes targeting privileged credentials and security stacks as a quick and effective method of bypassing evolving defenses As attacks targeting both human and technical monitors continue to rise implementing robust mechanisms to combat them by monitoring the monitors is becoming more crucial than ever.   Hyper V replication and failover on SAN storage? Buyers of old Cisco Gear DELL 7530 M1004 error - Advice to fix? Toolbox will become Spiceworks News & Insights Thriving in the face of adversity as politics and security play an integral part in everyday life is a default position for Israel The data backs this up: recent OECD reports describe Israel as stable with strong economic growth: annual GDP has consistently risen by three to four percent over recent years to reach nearly $400bn in 2019 despite a protracted leadership battle taking place with two general elections in six months bringing the nation no closer to a conclusive result Michael Barnea, managing partner of Barnea develops the point: ‘The environment is surprisingly robust considering the political instability that we’ve experienced for a considerable time both from overseas into Israel and in the local market is extremely strong and gives every appearance of being confident in the future.’ Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or subscribe Corporate users - click here for simple access (no password needed) For more information, please contact jasmine.glass@legalbusiness.co.uk T: +44 (0)20 7396 9313 | E: subscriptions@legalease.co.uk This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page the Florida State University College of Music hosted the 19th Biennial Festival of New Music a festival celebrating contemporary composers from around the world and from here in Tallahassee This year’s festival consisted of seven concerts with 30 compositions carefully chosen by FSU College of Music faculty from nearly 1,000 total submissions The festival featured compositions and performances from special guests Georg Friedrich Haas and the Meitar Ensemble Georg Friedrich Haas introduced the festival with a pre-concert lecture discussing his personal background musical education and process of composing an internationally renowned award-winning composer was born in Austria and is currently a professor of music at Columbia University in New York City His wide-ranging compositions blend traditional European styles with contemporary elements a concept which he described in detail in his pre-concert lecture on Thursday night “Microtonality for a large orchestra is very difficult,” Haas noted citing the level of precision necessary to successfully perform music using quartertones Haas’ exploration of microtonality characterizes his compositions and sets his work apart from other contemporary composers Explaining the complexity of microtonality but it’s not amazing because it’s absolutely perfect; it’s amazing because you get a different step of vibrations … these vibrations make music interesting,”  The ideal performers for Haas’ complex compositions were the musicians of the Meitar Ensemble the Meitar Ensemble is comprised of Hagar Shahal on flute the Meitar Ensemble regularly collaborates with Haas the Meitar Ensemble’s virtuosity brought Haas’ compositions to life After masterclasses and lectures from Haas the Festival of New Music commenced with its opening concert at Opperman Music Hall The concert featured compositions from Haas along with others including the late Ladislav Kubík an award-winning composer and former Professor of Composition in the FSU College of Music The festival continued through Friday and Saturday with more concerts and master classes throughout each day the Meitar Ensemble gave an informational session on collaboration between performers and composers giving attendees a glimpse of the work that went into preparing the compositions of the festival Longmire Recital Hall hosted “Sisyphus in Situ,” an electro-acoustic wave field synthesis installation by Paul Koonce professor emeritus of music at the University of Florida An electro-acoustic concert later took place at Opperman Music Hall blending acoustic instruments like pianos with electronics a perfect example of the contemporary compositions which the festival celebrated the 19th Biennial Festival of New Music drew to a close at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall starring the University Wind Orchestra and the University Symphony Orchestra ended with a performance of Haas’ “Traum in des Sommers Nacht.” “I have no idea what will happen in music Haas noted the profound impact of music on an audience describing the importance of experiencing its “intellectual the Meitar Ensemble and all who contributed to the festival attendees of this year’s Festival of New Music experienced a valuable taste of this pleasure You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image new information from the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) shows Walter Peak Station's beneficial owners Morris Kahn David Kahn and Shmuel Meitar sold the land The Overseas Investment Office (OIO) approved Walter Peak Station’s owners to buy the land in 2012 but the purchase price was withheld under the Official Information Act until yesterday The OIO decision listed the vendor as Walter Peak Developments Ltd whose directors are Justin Russell and Roderick Nielsen That company was placed in receivership in December 2008 and in liquidation in April 2009 The OIO decision said while resource consent to construct cottages and a lodge on the land was obtained The consideration for the sale back to the previous owners was $3,850,000 ''The applicants are reacquiring the land in order to complete an extensive indigenous planting programme as well as other infrastructure improvements ''They also intend to integrate the land back into its Walter Peak Station farming operation (the land currently has no productive use).'' The decision found the application satisfied the ''substantial and identifiable benefit to New Zealand'' criteria in the Overseas Investment Act 2005 on six grounds greater efficiency/productivity and additional investment for development purposes