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The People Behind It

Built by operators, not observers.

1stProtect was built by people who have spent decades operating global infrastructure and securing production systems.

Kervin Pillay

Kervin Pillay

Chief Executive Officer

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Credibility markers

  • 25 Years in Telecoms
  • Harvard Business School
  • Enterprise CTO
Executive Business Leadership & Entrepreneurship — Harvard Business School

Kervin has led global infrastructure and security operations across telecom, cloud, and enterprise environments, including multi-country operational footprints.

He focuses 1stProtect on practical adoption: deploy in audit mode, validate policy boundaries with customer teams, and move to enforcement with evidence.

Rafel Ivgi

Rafel Ivgi

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Credibility markers

  • 30 Years in Cybersecurity
  • Unit 8200 · Israel Defense Prize
  • Published Security Researcher

Rafel brings three decades of hands-on security engineering across endpoint, data, and cloud security, with deep experience in offensive and defensive operations.

At 1stProtect, he leads AI Agent Control Company architecture focused on actor attribution, action-level policy decisions, and local enforcement reliability.

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