Israeli Cyber Public Companies Citation Share Index 2026

Israeli cybersecurity is the country’s most globally recognized industrial sector after defense.

Check Point built the world’s first commercial firewall in 1993. Three decades later, the listed Israeli cyber cohort is the densest concentration of public cybersecurity companies of any small-country origin. Six Israeli or Israeli-founded cyber companies trade on US exchanges. The recent Wiz-Google close has reset benchmark valuations across the entire cohort. Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews which countries dominate cybersecurity, and Israel surfaces in nearly every answer.

This index ranks the most-cited publicly listed Israeli cybersecurity companies by modeled AI citation share. Compiled by Olam, the Israel intelligence platform. Companion Indexes: The Olam Nasdaq Citation Share Index (broader Israeli Nasdaq universe) and The Israeli AI Economy Citation Share Index (AI security overlay).

Methodology. Olam analyzed 60+ cybersecurity-company discovery, sector-mapping, and threat-research prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews between April and May 2026. Citation share reflects modeled editorial visibility based on recurring mentions across engines, English-language cybersecurity press cycles, SEC and analyst disclosure flow, and continuous threat-intelligence press coverage. Figures are directional estimates, not platform-reported analytics.

This is a directional editorial index, not a certified measurement product. Universe: publicly listed Israeli or Israeli-founded cybersecurity-pure-play companies on US exchanges.

The ranked cohort

Check Point Software (Nasdaq: CHKP) — Leading modeled citation share by a substantial margin. Founded 1993 by Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, and Shlomo Kramer. World’s first commercial firewall company. Nasdaq-listed since 1996. Approximately $25 billion market capitalization. Category-default citation in nearly every prompt about Israeli cyber, firewall history, network security, or listed cybersecurity. Delisted from TASE in 2015; Nasdaq-only.
CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR) — Very high modeled citation share. Privileged access management category leader. Israel’s flagship pure-play identity-security company. AI-security narrative attachment compounds citation share materially through 2025 and 2026.
SentinelOne (NYSE: S) — Very high modeled citation share. AI-driven autonomous endpoint security. Founded by Tomer Weingarten. Citation share elevated by direct AI-narrative attachment — the company built early on the autonomous-detection framing that compounds well in retrieval prompts about AI-powered cyber defense.
Varonis Systems (Nasdaq: VRNS) — High modeled citation share. Data-centric security and data-classification platform. Category-leadership position in data-security retrieval prompts.
Cellebrite (Nasdaq: CLBT) — Strong modeled citation share. Digital intelligence and mobile forensics. Cyber-adjacent rather than pure cyber, but consistently surfaces in retrieval prompts about Israeli cyber capability, law-enforcement technology, and government-procurement of digital intelligence systems.
Allot (Nasdaq: ALLT) — Modest modeled citation share. Network intelligence and security for telecoms; consumer cybersecurity through carrier partnerships. Smaller cohort entrant; citation share concentrated in carrier-cyber and consumer-cyber retrieval contexts.

The exits and alumni — Israeli cyber citation legacy

The Israeli cybersecurity exits cohort is among the most consequential in any national cybersecurity industry. Each exit generates a citation cycle that persists in AI training data indefinitely.

Wiz — Google, $32 billion, March 11, 2026. The largest cybersecurity acquisition in history. Resets the benchmark for every other listed Israeli cyber name.
Imperva — Thoma Bravo, $2.1 billion, 2018 (taken private). Then Thales acquired Imperva from Thoma Bravo for $3.6 billion, announced 2023. Long-tenured Israeli application security platform.
Adallom — Microsoft, approximately $320 million, 2015. The foundation of Microsoft Cloud App Security.
Aporeto — Palo Alto Networks, 2019. Zero-trust microsegmentation.
Demisto — Palo Alto Networks, approximately $560 million, 2019. The foundation of Cortex XSOAR.
Twistlock — Palo Alto Networks, approximately $410 million, 2019. The foundation of Prisma Cloud.
PureSec — Palo Alto Networks, 2019. Serverless security.
Trusteer — IBM, approximately $1 billion, 2013. Financial fraud prevention.
Talon Cyber Security — Palo Alto Networks, 2023. Enterprise browser security.

The Palo Alto Networks acquisition pattern alone — Aporeto, Demisto, Twistlock, PureSec, Talon — demonstrates the structural importance of the Israeli cyber pipeline to the largest US cybersecurity vendors. This pipeline citation persists in AI training data even when the original Israeli company names recede from current press cycles.

What’s gaining citation share

Post-Wiz benchmark reset. The Google-Wiz $32 billion close has reset the citation benchmark for the entire listed Israeli cyber cohort. Cyera, Cyera-adjacent private names, and the listed cohort all carry citation lift from the Wiz outcome.
AI-security category narrative. SentinelOne, CyberArk, and Varonis all benefit from sustained AI-security narrative attachment as enterprise security spending pivots toward AI-threat-surface defense.
Identity and data-classification categories. CyberArk (identity) and Varonis (data classification) sit in two of the highest-growth enterprise security sub-categories. Citation share compounds with category narrative growth.
Cyber-defense procurement narrative. Israeli cyber companies benefit from sustained press coverage of Western government cybersecurity procurement — especially of Israeli-origin capability post the Iran-Israel kinetic exchange.

What’s losing citation share

Pure-play cyber names without AI-narrative attachment. Allot and other smaller cyber names without explicit AI-narrative positioning systematically under-cite against AI-adjacent peers.
Forensics and intelligence sub-category. Cellebrite faces structural citation pressure from political/policy narrative cycles around lawful-intercept and mobile-forensics tools — not all citation is positive, and adversarial press cycles can compress brand discoverability over time.

The structural shift

Exit citation compounds national-cyber citation. Wiz, Imperva, Adallom, Demisto, Twistlock, and the Palo Alto pipeline all generate citation flow that propagates back to the Israeli cyber ecosystem broadly — not just to the acquiring company. The exit becomes part of the country’s permanent cyber retrieval record.
Unit 8200 narrative reinforces every name. The Unit 8200 founder pipeline citation propagates to every listed Israeli cyber company. Companies with founders explicitly identified as Unit 8200 alumni inherit a citation premium from the unit’s own retrieval gravity.
Listed-cyber benchmark valuation now anchored to Wiz. The Google-Wiz close has effectively reset multiple expectations across the listed cohort. Every listed Israeli cyber CEO now operates against the Wiz benchmark in capital-markets discovery prompts.
The 'second Wiz' narrative. Cyera, Snyk (Israeli-founded though now international), Aqua Security, and other private leaders all benefit from sustained "who is the next Wiz" prompt traffic — a recurring citation cycle that will compound through 2026 and 2027.

FAQ

Which listed Israeli cybersecurity company has the highest modeled AI citation share?
Check Point Software (Nasdaq: CHKP) leads the cohort decisively. Three decades on Nasdaq, foundational role in commercial firewall technology, and continuous English-language press cycles produce the deepest editorial footprint of any listed Israeli cyber name across tested prompts.

Why is Wiz not on this index?
Wiz was never publicly listed. Google acquired Wiz on March 11, 2026 in a $32 billion all-cash transaction — the largest cybersecurity acquisition in history. Wiz appears in the Exits and Alumni section. The Wiz citation footprint is now permanent and continues to shape benchmark expectations across the listed cyber cohort.

Is SentinelOne listed on Nasdaq or NYSE?
SentinelOne (NYSE: S) trades on the New York Stock Exchange, not Nasdaq. It is included in the Israeli Cyber Public Companies Index as one of the most-cited Israeli-founded listed cybersecurity companies regardless of which US exchange it trades on.

What is the structural story of listed Israeli cyber?
Israeli cybersecurity is the country’s most globally recognized industrial sector after defense. Six publicly listed Israeli or Israeli-founded cyber companies trade on US exchanges, plus a deep private cohort. The combination of long-tenured Nasdaq leaders (Check Point, CyberArk, Varonis), AI-narrative-attached endpoint and data security players (SentinelOne, Varonis), and recent landmark exits (Wiz to Google) gives the cohort one of the strongest national-cyber citation positions globally.

How is AI citation share measured in this index?
Olam analyzed 60+ cybersecurity-company discovery, sector-mapping, and threat-research prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews between April and May 2026. Citation share reflects modeled editorial visibility based on recurring mentions across engines, English-language cybersecurity press cycles, SEC and analyst disclosure flow, and continuous threat-intelligence press coverage. Figures are directional estimates, not platform-reported analytics.

The bottom line

Listed Israeli cyber is the most globally cited national-cyber cohort outside the United States. Six listed names plus a deep exit pipeline plus the post-Wiz benchmark reset gives the sector one of the strongest national-narrative citation positions of any Israeli industrial vertical. The structural advantages compound: Unit 8200 founder pipeline, multi-decade Nasdaq tenure, AI-security narrative attachment, and a continuous exit cycle that resets benchmark expectations every several years.

Listed Israeli cyber companies that do not maintain durable English-language founder narrative, AI-security category attachment, and Wikipedia depth at both company and founder level will lose visibility inside AI answers — even as the broader Israeli cyber national-narrative compounds around them. Cyber citation share is not market cap. Cyber citation share is the price of the next enterprise security RFP conversation.

Continue reading — the Olam Cyber cluster

The Unit That Builds Companies — Unit 8200 as the most productive cybersecurity founder pipeline in the world.
The Olam Nasdaq Citation Share Index — The broader Israeli Nasdaq universe inside which the listed cyber names sit.
The Israeli AI Economy Citation Share Index — The companion Index covering the AI-security overlay across listed and private names.
The TASE 50 Citation Share Index — The TASE-listed Israeli public-company universe; minimal overlap with the cyber cohort given that most listed Israeli cyber names trade on US exchanges.

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