Cybereason

Cybereason was founded in 2012 by Lior Div, Yossi Naar, and Yonatan Striem-Amit, all veterans of IDF Unit 8200. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv. SoftBank invested in Cybereason across multiple funding rounds. The company remained private throughout its operational history. In 2024, Cybereason filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, after which its business was acquired by Trustwave.

Cybereason's primary product was an EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) and XDR (Extended Detection and Response) platform designed to detect and respond to cyberattacks across endpoints and beyond. The platform's core differentiator was a behavioral analytics engine that identified full attack chains — what the company called an "Operation-Centric" approach — rather than flagging isolated events. Primary buyers were enterprise and mid-market security teams, SOC analysts, and incident response professionals, with notable traction in financial services and government sectors.

The flagship product was the Cybereason Defense Platform, encompassing EDR, XDR, NGAV (Next-Generation Antivirus), and an Anti-Ransomware module. The company also offered MDR (Managed Detection and Response) services for organizations preferring outsourced monitoring and response.

Cybereason's direct competitors included CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. CrowdStrike and SentinelOne achieved significantly faster growth and greater market share in the EDR/XDR space. From 2022 onward, Cybereason underwent substantial workforce reductions and reported operational difficulties. The Chapter 11 filing in 2024 and subsequent acquisition by Trustwave marked the end of Cybereason as an independent company.

Cybereason operated an R&D center in Tel Aviv. The founding team's roots in Unit 8200 were central to the company's early technical identity. Following the layoffs of 2022–2023 and the 2024 bankruptcy, the current state of Israeli operations is not publicly clear.