# Founder, CyberArk

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/experts/udi-mokady/
Last updated: 2026-09-20
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## Bio

Udi Mokady co-founded CyberArk in Israel in April 1999, served as its CEO from 2005 to 2023, and then moved to Executive Chair. The company started with a digital vault for secrets and grew into the defining vendor of a category that did not exist when it launched.

Profile built from public company and press records.

## Where their work shows up

[Privileged access management](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/what-is-pam/) is arguably the only identity category invented by a product rather than a standards body. The core insight, that the accounts with the most power should be the ones nobody holds permanently, became session isolation, credential vaulting, just-in-time elevation, and session recording, and it is now the control auditors look for first after a breach. [CyberArk](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/pam/cyberark/) built that playbook; see the [best PAM solutions](https://startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-pam-tools/) ranking for how the field competes on it today, and the [breach teardowns](https://startwithidentity.com/breaches/) for what happens when privileged accounts go unmanaged.