Gal Nakash is an Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneur who co-founded and serves as Chief Product Officer of Reco, a company specializing in SaaS security posture management and Shadow IT discovery [1][3]. He and his co-founder Tal, the company's CEO, previously served together in the cybersecurity division of Israel's Prime Minister's office, an experience that led them to identify SaaS environments as an emerging attack surface for large enterprises lacking traditional network perimeters [3]. Reco was founded in 2020 and had grown to fourteen employees and completed two funding rounds by the time of an early interview at the AWS Summit in Tel Aviv [3]. Nakash has described the company's core function as connecting data across disparate SaaS applications to build a contextual graph that reveals access management issues, configuration risks, and anomalous or malicious activity [3]. As an illustration of the problem Reco addresses, he cited cases involving Snowflake integrations in which former employees retained unmonitored access without multi-factor authentication, a gap Reco's platform is designed to surface for its customers [3].
By 2025, Nakash announced that Reco had raised a $30 million Series B round, less than ten months after its prior round, bringing total funding to $85 million, and that the company's business had grown 400% that year [2]. He has framed this growth around the argument that artificial intelligence adoption has fundamentally changed the security landscape, shifting enterprise activity away from firewall-protected perimeters into SaaS platforms where autonomous AI agents operate continuously and largely outside organizational control [2]. In his account, AI agents performing tasks such as writing code, processing invoices, and handling customer service now multiply and form new application connections on a daily or hourly basis, a pace he says traditional, static, perimeter-based security tools cannot match [2]. Nakash has argued that Reco's approach is to provide continuous, real-time visibility and dynamic controls that move at the same speed as AI-driven business activity, rather than relying on periodic or static assessments [2]. He has stated that this positioning has driven adoption among Fortune 100 companies and underpins the company's stated goal of becoming the leading firm securing organizations' SaaS ecosystems worldwide [2][3].
Insights & ideas
Gal Nakash argues that the AI revolution has fundamentally broken the traditional security model built around the perimeter, where firewalls and VPNs separated a trusted inside from a threatening outside [1]. In his view, that world is gone because AI agents now run autonomously inside SaaS applications, outside any organization's direct control, making decisions, writing code, and processing business-critical tasks like invoices [1]. He describes this as "AI sprawl," a constantly multiplying and shifting set of agents, connections, and capabilities that change daily or even hourly rather than on quarterly cycles, which traditional static security tools cannot track [1].
Nakash's recurring theme is that security must become dynamic to match this velocity, offering continuous, real-time visibility and control rather than static snapshots [1]. He frames this as the core differentiator for Reco, positioning the company as "dynamic security for the agentic era" that moves at the same speed as AI-driven business change, which he argues is why enterprises, including Fortune 100 companies, are adopting it [1].
Experience
- Co-Founder & Chief Product OfficerRecoSep 2023 to Present
- Co-Founder & VP of ProductRecoDec 2022 to Dec 2023
- Co-Founder & CTORecoOct 2020 to Dec 2022
- Crew MemberJibe VenturesMar 2021 to Present
- Head of ResearchOffice of the Prime Minister of IsraelNov 2017 to Jan 2020
- R&D Team LeaderOffice of the Prime Minister of IsraelJul 2015 to Nov 2017
- Security ResearcherOffice of the Prime Minister of IsraelFeb 2013 to Aug 2015
- Software EngineerOffice of the Prime Minister of IsraelFeb 2011 to Feb 2013
Education
The College of Management Academic Studies · Bachelor's degree, Economics2016 - 2019
- maccabim-reut high school2007 - 2010
Media & appearances
- Building Security for the AI Era: Reco's CPO on Product ...YouTube
Gal Nakash announces Reco's $30 million Series B funding round, bringing total funding to $85 million. He discusses how AI adoption has created new security challenges as AI agents operate autonomously in SaaS applications outside traditional perimeters, requiring real-time visibility and dynamic security controls that move at the speed of AI rather than static security approaches.
- AWS Startups on the Red Carpet - Reco SaaS Security - YouTubeYouTube
Gal discusses Reco, a SaaS security company he co-founded in 2020 that provides SaaS security posture management and Shadow IT discovery. He explains the company grew from recognizing that SaaS environments lack traditional network perimeters, a problem he identified with his co-founder from their shared background in cybersecurity with the Prime Minister's office. He gives an example involving Snowflake integration security gaps, such as former employees retaining unmonitored access without MFA, and states goals of becoming the leading SaaS security company securing organizations worldwide.
- Your Employees Are Using AI You Don’t Know About—And It’s A Security NightmareMachine Dreams · Feb 19, 2026
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