Hagai Bar-El

Information Security Architect


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Services Overview


The following page briefly lists the types of services that are provided by the office. For more detailed descriptions please refer to the business profile document. Also, our service model shows how we differ from typical consultants.


Secure Applications Design and Development

Active participation in the design and/or deployment phases of applications for handling e-commerce activity, transaction processing, secure local and remote data protection, messaging, wireless communication, and others. More...

Evaluation of Information Security Products

Evaluation of off-the-shelf as well as tailor-made hardware and software applications from the aspects of information security. Evaluation is both in terms of robustness and in terms of cost-effectiveness within a particular environment. More...

Evaluation of New Technologies

Evaluation of proposed solutions and products that employ novel security-related technologies, as a part of the investors due-diligence process. More...

Standardization Activities

Participation in standardization bodies on behalf of the customer. This includes representation of the customers interests while physically attending meetings, or back-end gathering and analysis of information from standardization bodies to support the customers standardization efforts. More...

Intelligent Information Gathering

One time or constant gathering of information on topics that are of interest to the customer. This information comes from relevant standardization bodies, from the media, or from the academy. All information is analyzed to determine its relevance and significance to the customer, who gets well organized and digested information. More...

Lectures, Seminars, and Training

Provision of lectures and seminars on various information security topics within the fields of expertise. Training sessions are either delivered on-site or are provided on recorded media (audio and/or video). More...

Research

The office engages in research both in response to customers demands and as an investment for finding solutions to what may be considered as real world information security problems. Research papers can be written per request so they address topics or problems that are of a concern to a customer. Also, some research papers are available for online purchase. For some pre-written papers, the purchase may include a one-on-one conference call with the author on which a Q&A session can be held.
Please refer to the contact form to submit your topic or problem and learn what research we may already have that covers it.

Panel Chat Sessions

Panel Chat sessions are moderated web-based chat sessions attended by individuals who like to discuss a certain topic, and possibly an expert in the field. Hagai Bar-El, or someone on his behalf, moderates the chat sessions. These chat sessions are carried out at designated times and are facilitated to discuss particular (specific) topics. All chat sessions require pre-registration to attend. Registration for most sessions is free of charge. Cost is involved only for sessions in which paid field experts are participating.
Please visit the panel chat schedule for more information.

Consulting

Consulting to companies about various information security issues within the fields of expertise, such as: Internet security, content security, e-mail secrecy, transactions secrecy and integrity, user authentication schemes, digital signatures, internal classification and application security.



Competitive Advantage

We are aware of the vast number of information security consulting providers around these days. We believe that we have a clear and significant advantage over other service providers. Our advantage results from our being professionally focused on certain fields of information security, our being light in terms of administration overhead, and on our adoption of different service models. More...


Service Model

As a small office consisting only of Hagai Bar-El and colleagues, we are capable of adopting service methodologies that are more efficient and more cost-effective for the customer. Our philosophy is that in order to distribute knowledge, which is the essence of what we do, one does not need to engage in long-lasting projects. We treat consulting as a pay-per-use service. More...