Avi Douglen

🇮🇱🌐 Today in IsraelTech Cato Networks Acquires Aim Security for $350M Cato is adding AI-native security from Aim to its SASE Cloud Platform, while topping up its Series G with $50M to $409M. Incredible news for Shlomo Kramer at Cato Networks, and Aim Security founders Matan G. and Adir G.. Investors in Aim included Canaan Partners, YL Ventures, and Cyber Club London. Source: SiliconANGLE Today's update is brought to you by The Recruitery, helping Israeli cybersecurity startups find top GTM talent across global markets.

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We were pleased to design and deliver a dedicated, hands-on Cloud Security workshop led by CYBERPRO Israel for Discount Bank בנק דיסקונט, focusing on the real-world cybersecurity challenges of cloud environments within large financial organizations. The workshop was tailored specifically for Discount Bank’s cyber, information security, and IT teams, with an emphasis on regulation, risk management, and operating securely in multi-cloud and multi-service environments. Key topics included the shared responsibility model, identity and access management (IAM), Zero Trust, advanced monitoring and detection, segmentation, and secure cloud architecture. Throughout the day, we combined in-depth technical learning with live simulations of real cyber incidents, enabling participants not only to understand cloud threats but to experience, analyze, and respond to them in a controlled, practical setting aligned with their organizational reality. Special thanks to Rotem Dror ☁️ and Yarden Rotem for delivering highly professional, insightful, and impactful sessions, and to the Discount Bank בנק דיסקונט team for a meaningful partnership, openness, and a high-level professional dialogue. Proud to support the cyber resilience of financial organizations through practical, scenario-driven training.

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Is Telegram safe? The Handala hack of Israeli officials exposes a critical reality. It wasn't a device breach - it was a targeted exploit of Telegram’s own architecture and weaknesses. We break down the Modus Operandi: from session hijacking (tdata) to OTP theft, and analyze why default settings left these accounts exposed. Read the full analysis: https://hubs.la/Q03ZjXqH0 #Telegram #Handala #TelegramSecurity #CTI #breach

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Another milestone for Israeli cybersecurity and YL Ventures: Aim Security, led by founders Matan G. and Adir Gruss, has been acquired by Cato Networks! From their $10M seed round in 2023 through their $18M Series A, we had the privilege of working closely with the team as they built one of the fastest growing cybersecurity companies in Israel, and the category leader of AI Security. From day zero, Aim set out with a bold vision: to give enterprises a way to adopt AI securely and responsibly. In two years, Matan, Adir, and their exceptional team turned that vision into a reality, building a company trusted by some of the world’s largest organizations. This achievement demonstrates the power of brilliant founders, strong teams, and conviction from inception. For YL Ventures’ $400M Fund V, this is a significant outcome and another marker of Israel’s unique ability to produce companies that matter on a global stage. https://lnkd.in/erHnKmfN

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BIG CYBER M&A BOMBSHELL: American cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks just closed its massive $25 BILLION acquisition of Israeli identity security leader CyberArk! This is the 2nd largest tech acquisition in Israeli history coming hot on the heels of Google’s record-breaking $32B Wiz deal only months ago. Identity security just got a superpower upgrade as AI threats explode. Palo Alto is doubling down to secure human, machine, AND agentic identities. Israel’s cyber scene is on 🔥

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Cyata, a cybersecurity startup founded by experts from Unit 8200, Cellebrite, and Check Point, has come out of stealth mode with $8.5 million in seed funding, led by TLV Partners. The company is focused on solving a rising but often overlooked problem: AI agents running without proper supervision across company systems. As companies increasingly adopt AI to improve efficiency, a new kind of digital worker has emerged—task-driven agents, copilots, and chatbots. These AI tools can now perform actions like running code, accessing sensitive databases, making transactions, and starting automated workflows. However, unlike human employees or standard service accounts, these AI agents often operate outside existing identity and security systems. They usually lack proper controls, tracking, and accountability—creating new risks for organizations. Shahar Tal | Baruch Weizman | Dror Roth | Gilad Roth | Keren Ludomirski-Zait 🔗 Read full article link in comment #cyata #TLVpartners #cybersecurity #AI #funding #startupnews #businessupdate

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🧩 This week, let's focus on Sekoia.io x Wiz Audit Logs 🤖 Sekoia AI SOC platform is built on an Open XDR architecture which leverages your security components to drastically improve your detection and response capabilities, thanks to the integrated SIEM and SOAR features that rely on many detection functionalities: ☑ Real time CTI/Correlation/UEBA detection engines ☑ More than 9M structured and contextualized IoCs ☑ Over 1000 built-in verified detections rules, etc. 📄🛡️ The Sekoia.io integrations catalog already includes more than 250 of the most important security solutions on the market (Endpoint, Cloud, IAM, Mail, Network etc.), in particular Wiz Audit Logs whose documentation you can find here: https://lnkd.in/ePh-jPWQ

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𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤… 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜? 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲. Barak Sofir, Head of White Hat’s Red Teams, argues that when you adopt the attacker’s perspective, tools like AI-enabled RATs can become a 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 asset. 👉 The real question isn’t whether you run Red Team exercises, but whether those exercises keep pace with how offense is evolving. Deployed in red team operations, they expose vulnerabilities before they’re weaponized and pressure-test your detection systems against adaptive, polymorphic behavior. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e_eNQaJE

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At today’s Cyber Week TLV conference in Tel Aviv, one message stood out loud and clear: technical excellence alone is not enough. During the panel “Technical Minds, Human Skills: How Soft Skills Shape Security Outcomes,” Anat Orgad, Head of Guidance and Regulation at the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), highlighted one of the most critical skills in modern cybersecurity leadership: “While countless soft skills are essential for success in the security domain, I chose to emphasize the critical capability of Complexity to Clarity. This skill is paramount because it requires us to effectively translate highly technical information into accessible, actionable insights for all organizational stakeholders, especially those in non-technical leadership and business roles. Ultimately, this ensures every part of the business fully grasps the risk and the necessary steps for mitigation.” In a world flooded with dashboards, alerts, and acronyms, the real superpower is making sure everyone in the organization truly understands what’s at stake — and what to do about it. Because if security insights stay locked in the server room… they’re not really securing much. Photo by: Dror Sithakol #CyberWeek #CyberSecurity #Leadership #SoftSkills #RiskManagement #INCD #DigitalResilience

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