Guardicore

Guardicore was founded in Tel Aviv in 2013 by Ohad Manor, Pavel Gurvich, and Dori Katzman. The company built a micro-segmentation platform designed to limit lateral movement inside enterprise networks following a breach. In 2021, Akamai Technologies acquired Guardicore for approximately $600 million.

Guardicore's primary product focused on detecting and enforcing network segmentation policy at the process and application level, enabling organizations to isolate critical workloads and prevent attackers from moving laterally within internal networks. The solution was aimed primarily at security teams in large enterprises and heavily regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare.

Guardicore's direct competitors included Illumio and vArmour in the micro-segmentation space. The 2021 acquisition by Akamai integrated the technology into Akamai's Zero Trust portfolio, where it is marketed as Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.

Guardicore originated in Tel Aviv, where its R&D center operated. The founders are Israeli, and the core engineering team was built in Israel.