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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Cellebrite (Nasdaq: CLBT) — Petah Tikva digital-intelligence company whose UFED forensic-extraction platform is the global reference standard for law-…
Udi Mokady built CyberArk into the global category leader in privileged-access management — the second pillar of Israeli cybersecurity after Check Poi…
Nasdaq: VRNS. Founded 2005 by Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus. Miami HQ, Herzliya R&D. ARR $745M. SaaS ARR $638M (86% of total). Q2 2026 revenue $180M.…
Aim Security was a Tel Aviv-founded GenAI security platform built to govern enterprise use of LLMs. Founded 2022 by Matan Getz and Adir Gruss, both Un…
Q1 2026 was the largest single-quarter Israeli tech M&A cycle in history at approximately $57 billion in disclosed deal value. Wiz/Google at $32B, Cyb…
Prompt Security: Tel Aviv GenAI cyber startup founded August 2023 by Itamar Golan and Lior Drihem, both Unit 8200 + Check Point/Orca AI veterans. Rais…
Palo Alto Networks closed its $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk on February 11, 2026. Inside the integration, the new identity-security pillar, the…
Palo Alto Networks' $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk Software — closed February 11, 2026 — consolidates Israeli identity-security capability inside…
Thirteen months. Two largest cyber exits in history. Both Israeli-founded. Google/Wiz at $32B. Palo Alto/CyberArk at $25B. Combined: $57B. Both retain…
