Cybersecurity

20 stories about Cybersecurity
זפרן סקיוריטי מימין שניר הבדלה סמנכ"ל מוצר סנז ישר מנכ"לית בן סרי סמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות

After founder departure, Cisco invests in Zafran Security

22.07.26|Meir Orbach
The strategic investment follows backing from American Express Ventures and expands the Israeli startup's blue-chip investor base.
Glow founders

AI security startup Glow emerges from stealth with $180 million at $1.2 billion valuation

22.07.26|Meir Orbach
Founded by former Meta, Snowflake and Claroty executives, the company is betting AI can transform endpoint security from reactive defense to prevention.
Google for Startups

One-third of Google’s first AI cybersecurity cohort is Israeli

22.07.26|CTech
The 11 selected companies are developing technologies to secure AI agents, protect enterprise data and automate cyber defense. 
סם אלטמן מייסד OpenAI ומנכ"ל צ'אט ג'יפיטי ChatGPT

OpenAI’s AI agent broke out of a test environment and hacked Hugging Face

22.07.26|Reuters, CTech
A security experiment designed to measure the risks of advanced AI models turned into a real-world incident, raising new questions about whether autonomous agents can be safely controlled.
מייסדי Neo. מימין: ערן שיראזי, ניק וורנר ושלומי סאלם

SentinelOne veterans raise $100 million to secure the rise of AI agents

20.07.26|Meir Orbach
Neo says traditional cybersecurity tools were never designed for autonomous software that can reason, make decisions and act inside enterprise systems. 
זפרן סקיוריטי מימין שניר הבדלה סמנכ"ל מוצר סנז ישר מנכ"לית בן סרי סמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות

Cisco in talks to buy Israeli cyber startup Zafran at steep discount

20.07.26|Sophie Shulman, Meir Orbach
Exclusive: A deal valued at $150 million-$200 million would fall well below the company's last fundraising valuation despite backing from Sequoia, Menlo Ventures and Cyberstarts. 
שעון טיסו יבואן רולטיים

The next things technology will make obsolete

16.07.26|Zachy Hennessey
From checkout pages and classrooms to third-party cookies and organizational "know-how," Israeli tech leaders predict what AI and emerging technologies will eliminate over the next decade.
Beacon Security founders

Beacon Security raises $13 million Seed to build the data layer powering AI cybersecurity agents

16.07.26|Meir Orbach
Israeli startup founded by HiredScore, Mitiga and Skyline AI veterans says enterprises need trusted context before AI agents can safely defend against threats. 
מימין שי מורג ו טל מרום מייסדי Oak

After three cyber exits, Shai Morag raises $60 million to reinvent enterprise identity

15.07.26|Meir Orbach
Oak says its AI-native platform replaces the patchwork of legacy identity tools with a single operating system that governs employees, machines and AI agents. 
ניקולס וורנר לשעבר מחברת סנטינל וואן

Former SentinelOne leaders secure $50 million for stealth cyber startup

15.07.26|Meir Orbach
Neo Security has now raised more than $75 million as investors continue backing next-generation cybersecurity companies.
CardinalOps founders

Cribl acquires Israeli cyber startup CardinalOps for around $100 million

14.07.26|Meir Orbach
The U.S. telemetry company will establish a Tel Aviv office after buying the AI-powered detection engineering startup. The acquisition marks Cribl’s push into security operations and its effort to challenge traditional SIEM platforms. 
Bar Refaeli Dr. Inbal Gat Dr. Shira Orr

You can't outspend an AI attacker

12.07.26|Ido Geffen
The winners of the AI era won't be the companies that spend the most on AI. They'll be the ones that own and continuously optimize the AI systems they depend on to deliver the best performance at the lowest sustainable cost.
Lior Sitruck

If 85% of executives struggle with decision-making, can AI's token economy change that?

11.07.26|Lior Sitruk
If companies view AI primarily as a tool for automating tasks, much of its economic potential will remain untapped. But as AI becomes embedded in the decision-making process itself, its business impact will become easier to measure.
A group of people in a crowd raise their hands.

“If you get the people right, everything else becomes more possible”: Life lessons from Israeli tech leaders

09.07.26|Zachy Hennessey
Israeli tech industry experts give advice that offers a glimpse into the skills and mindsets they believe will matter most in the years ahead.
אודי מוקדי מוסף

After CyberArk’s $25 billion sale, Udi Mokady turns to securing the AI agent era

07.07.26|Sophie Shulman
Mokady has been appointed chairman of CHEQ as the company expands from identity security into protecting organizations from emerging AI-driven threats.
מייסדי cyera מימין יונתן איתי תמר בר אילן ו יותם שגב

Cyera in advanced negotiations to acquire Oasis Security for over $1 billion

06.07.26|Meir Orbach
Fresh off a $600 million funding round, the Israeli cybersecurity unicorn is accelerating its acquisition strategy.
מייסדי KOI

Palo Alto Networks and Koi Security sued over alleged AI error in cyber threat report

05.07.26|Meir Orbach
MeetingTV claims a flawed intelligence classification led to global blocking of its services.
Shahaf Galili

AI isn’t creating super-hackers. It’s scaling less-skilled attackers

03.07.26|Shahaf Galili
As automation lowers the barrier to cybercrime, the real defensive test is detecting attacker behavior faster, not chasing the next shiny product.
מייסדי לייר סקיוריטי LayerX Security

Akamai completes $205 million LayerX acquisition as browser security push enters next phase

02.07.26|CTech
The deal, first announced in May, extends Akamai’s Zero Trust platform into AI-era browser visibility and control.
Asaf Nevo

Everything got disrupted. Except the hard part.

02.07.26|Asaf Nevo
In a world where founders can launch before their first board meeting, the only moat left is the one AI cannot build.