Cybersecurity

20 stories about Cybersecurity
מימין  מייסד צק פוינט גיל שוויד ומייסדי פרימטר 81 עמית ברקת ו שגיא גידלי

Cyber chess: Check Point's $490 million Perimeter 81 deal and market dynamics

13.08.23|Sophie Shulman
Examining the timing and strategic considerations behind the all-Israeli cybersecurity deal
צוות Sweet Security

Security startup led by former Israeli military cyber chiefs lands $12 million in Seed funding

09.08.23|Sophie Shulman
Sweet Security was founded by retired Brigadier General, Dror Kashti, former CISO of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), retired Colonel, Eyal Fisher, former head of the Cyber Department at Unit 8200 and Orel Ben-Ishay, former Head of the Cybersecurity R&D center at Unit 81
מייסדי למינר Laminar מימין עמית שקד ו אורן אברהם

Rubrik acquiring cloud security startup Laminar for $200-250 million

08.08.23|Sophie Shulman
Laminar, which has developed a security solution for early identification of cloud data breaches, was in negotiations with several notable firms in the data space, including Datadog
מייסדי סילק סקיוריטי

Silk Security raises $12.5 million in Seed with backing from Shlomo Kramer and Mickey Boodaei

01.08.23|Meir Orbach
The startup’s platform enables security and operations stakeholders to collaboratively align finding risk with fixing risk - enhancing enterprise security and compliance posture, and centralizing visibility into risk resolution status
Cyclops co-founders

Cyclops raises $6.4 million in Seed for generative-AI powered cybersecurity search platform

26.07.23|CTech
The Israeli startup has developed a search engine powered by generative AI to answer questions about the state of an organization’s security posture, without the need for forensics or SIEM expertise
מימין עידן ניניו אייל ממו מייסדי ביוניק bionic

CrowdStrike in negotiations to acquire cyber startup Bionic for $200-300 million

26.07.23|Meir Orbach
Microsoft has also recently explored the possibility of acquiring the Israeli company, which develops a platform that helps IT, operations, and security teams to operate and protect applications more efficiently
מוסף שבועי 21.3.19 ד.נ.א גיל שוויד

Gil Shwed: "I don't know if today I would register Check Point in Israel"

26.07.23|Sophie Shulman
"I have been keeping my opinions to myself for 30 years. I wish that if I voiced my opinion it would make a difference to someone, unfortunately it will not have an effect," the CEO of Check Point added
אלי בן-נון ושי גבאי, מייסדי TRUSTMI

Trustmi raises $17 million for end-to-end payments security platform

26.07.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup has developed a product that assesses the safety of financial transactions, warns against suspected fraud in real-time, and identifies potential flaws in the process that may result from human error
צוות אדפטיב שילד

Blackstone investing $10 million in cybersecurity startup Adaptive Shield

25.07.23|Meir Orbach
The financial giant is already a client of the Israeli startup, and this deal is part of a strategic agreement between the two companies to integrate the cyber company's technology into Blackstone's operations
פאם מרפי מנכ"לית חברת הסייבר הישראלית אימפרבה

Thales acquiring cybersecurity company Imperva for $3.6 billion

25.07.23|Meir Orbach
The French giant is purchasing the Israeli-founded company from private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which paid $2.1 billion for Imperva five years ago
רותם מתוק, ינון דולב ודיאא שרידי, סומפו

Japanese insurance giant Sompo expands footprint in Israel with cybersecurity center and software development group

20.07.23|Meir Orbach
The aim of the cybersecurity center is development of the ability to assist Sompo to secure its products against cyber threats and provide solutions to the various units of the company
צוות סאבי

Fireglass founder back at it, raises $22 million Series A for new cybersecurity startup SAVVY

11.07.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup’s platform reports real-time actionable insights and metrics to security teams, enabling them to identify high-risk areas and user risk profiling to pinpoint which roles and teams require more support
פיטר מקאי מנכ"ל Snyk ו גיא פודחרני מייסד Snyk סניק

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk sees valuation plummet by over 50% in secondary deals

10.07.23|Sophie Shulman
Former Snyk employees and early investors are in the process of selling shares at a company valuation of $3.3 billion, a $4 billion drop from last December’s Series G
מוסף עצמאות 13.5.24 מייסדי חברת הסייבר Astrix Security אלון ג'קסון ו עידן גור

Astrix raises $25 million Series A to secure non-human app-to-app connections

28.06.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup’s platform provides visibility into all non-human connections and identities, automatically detecting and remediating over-privileged, unnecessary, misbehaving and malicious app-to-app connections
תמר בר אילן ויותם שגב, מייסדי סייארה

Cybersecurity startup Cyera secures $100 million Series B at $500 million valuation

27.06.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli company’s data security platform learns an enterprise’s unique data and business purpose, ans uses large language models to automatically discover, classify, and secure sensitive data
חדר מצב סייבר במשרדי Dell בבאר שבע

Israeli cyber startups to watch: Unveiling five top innovators

22.06.23|Meir Orbach
DevOcean, Gem, Oligo Security, OneLayer, and Zenity were highlighted by prominent investors as five of Israel’s most promising cybersecurity startups
מתקפת סייבר רוסיה

Wiz partnering with fellow Israeli unicorns Armis and Salt Security in new WIN platform

18.06.23|CTech
WIN is designed to enable a cloud security operating model where security and cloud teams work collaboratively to understand and control risks across their CI/CD pipeline
מייסידי KODEM, מימין: פבל פורמן, אביב מוסינגר ועידן ברטורא

NSO vets raise $18 million Series A for cyber startup Kodem

13.06.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup’s platform uses runtime intelligence to determine actual application risk
חן גור אריה Enso Security

Cyber unicorn Snyk acquiring Israeli startup Enso Security for over $50 million

08.06.23|Meir Orbach
The acquisition provides some good news for Snyk following the laying off of around a quarter of its employees over the past year