Defense & Security · 45 stories · Updated Sep 11, 2026
Inside Israeli cybersecurity businesses, from the founders building products to the buyers assessing what those companies are worth.
Lead storyCommercial spyware. Mobile forensics. Lawful intercept. The most regulated and most profitable corner of cybersecurity lives in a gray zone between commerce and statecraft — and Israel is its center of gravity.
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14 Israeli firms made the Rising in Cyber 2026 list. FIBA and the Tampa-MacDill defense pipeline are steering that funding toward Florida addresses.
Lior Div, Yonatan Striem-Amit, and Yossi Naar founded Cybereason in 2012. The EDR pioneer raised over $700M, including SoftBank's $200M Series E.
SentinelOne is an Israeli-founded autonomous endpoint security company with a $6B market cap. It has a Tel Aviv R&D anchor and $1.16B ARR.
Astrix Security: Tel Aviv non-human identity platform founded 2021 by Alon Jackson and Idan Gour, both Unit 8200 veterans. Raised $85M including the M…
Two listing templates define Israeli cybersecurity on the public markets: Check Point (Israeli entity, NASDAQ primary) and Palo Alto Networks (Delawar…
Japan is a structural buyer of Israeli cybersecurity, including SoftBank/Cybereason and NTT Security. The corridor spans OT, endpoint/cloud, and autom…
World's largest pure-play cybersecurity company by market cap — $130B+ on $10B+ revenue. Founded 2005 by Israeli engineer Nir Zuk (ex-Check Point, ex-…
Wiz was founded March 2020 by four Unit 8200 alumni; sold to Google for $32B on March 11, 2026 — the largest cyber acquisition ever and the largest Is…
Nasdaq: ALLT. Founded 1996 in Hod Hasharon. CEO Eyal Harari. Deep packet inspection turned Security-as-a-Service. SECaaS ARR $33.7M (March 2026, +59%…
