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Volkswagen Sets Up Cyber Security Firm with Ex-Israeli Spy Chief

Bottom Line IT
September 27, 2016 2:00 PM

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Erik Jacobsen and Amy Mumby talk about how Volkswagen Sets Up Cyber Security Firm with Ex-Israeli Spy Chief.

Volkswagen is forming a company with the former head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency to develop cyber security systems for Internet-connected cars and self-driving vehicles, the partners said in a statement on Wednesday. The new company, CyMotive Technologies, will be 40 percent owned by the German automaker and 60 percent by Yuval Diskin and two former colleagues who also had senior posts in the Shin Bet. The statement did not say how much Volkswagen would invest in the venture, which has an office in a suburb of Tel Aviv and will also open one in Wolfsburg, Germany. 

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