Billion Dollar Unicorns: Is Cybereason the Next Cyber Security Company to get Acquired?

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 4th 2017

Tel Aviv, Israel-based Cybereason was founded in 2012 as an endpoint protection offering by Israeli entrepreneurs Yossi Naar, Yonatan Amit, and Lior Div. Prior to setting up Cybereason, Lior Div led a team within Israel Defense Forces’ Unit 8200, an elite group that specializes in cyber security. Unit 8200 has helped evolve several successful Israeli cyber security startups such as Check Point Software and Palo Alto Networks. Experiences in the army help the founders and employees understand hacking operations.

Cybereason started with endpoint detection and response, but over the years, it has expanded to other areas. Today, it claims to target and protect it all. It has developed products that work to secure any device that is connected to the Internet – ranging from traditional hardware to wearables to cars and Internet of Things devices. Its AI platform can observe an attack, instantly warn the companies about the attack, and initiate activities to immediately stop the threat. Even if it finds a single component of an attack, it can connect it to other pieces of information to reveal an entire campaign and shut it down.

Besides Israeli military executives, Cybereason has also been leveraging CIA top executives. Recently, it added Robert Bigman, a former top CIA executive, as an Advisory Board member to its leadership team.

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. Is Cybereason the Next Cyber Security Company to get Acquired?