Benny Czarny is the Founder and CEO of OPSWAT, a global cybersecurity company focused on protecting the world’s most critical infrastructure, including banking, energy, nuclear, defense, water, and manufacturing.

For over two decades, Benny has worked closely with governments and enterprises to solve real-world cybersecurity challenges. His focus has been consistent: stop threats before they execute, not after they are detected.

Benny is widely recognized as a pioneer of Content Disarm and Reconstruction, CDR, a category he helped define and bring to market. This prevention-first approach removes threats from files rather than attempting to detect them, fundamentally changing how organizations handle untrusted content. His work has played a key role in shifting the industry’s thinking around trust, data movement, and risk, especially as AI introduces new and more complex attack surfaces.

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• 469: What your Oura ring won't tell you · May 27, 2026