Silverfort

Silverfort was founded in 2016 by Hed Kovetz, Yaron Kassner, and Matan Fass. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, the company operates as a privately held entity and raised a $116M Series D funding round in early 2024, bringing its total capital raised to over $220M. Silverfort employs roughly 400 people globally, with research and development primarily concentrated in Israel and go-to-market teams based in the United States and Europe. The core product is a Unified Identity Protection platform that enforces secure authentication across enterprise networks.

Silverfort develops software for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). The platform is designed to extend Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and conditional access policies to legacy systems, core IT infrastructure, OT environments, and machine-to-machine service accounts that natively lack these capabilities. Its technical moat is its agentless and proxy-less architecture: rather than installing software on individual servers or routing traffic through a network gateway, Silverfort integrates directly with identity directories like Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID to monitor and block anomalous authentication requests.

The primary offering is the Silverfort Unified Identity Protection Platform. It provides real-time visibility into all authentication traffic, auto-discovers and protects non-human service accounts, and blocks lateral movement attacks such as Pass-the-Ticket or Pass-the-Hash. The system functions as an enforcement layer that integrates natively with existing Identity Providers (IdPs) like Okta and Ping Identity, allowing enterprises to bridge modern cloud identity controls with on-premises legacy environments.

In the identity security landscape, Silverfort sits alongside competitors offering ITDR capabilities, such as CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection and Microsoft Defender for Identity. Instead of replacing existing Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure, Silverfort’s positioning focuses on serving as a complementary, vendor-agnostic layer that unifies visibility across fragmented hybrid networks. The company primarily targets large enterprise and mid-market buyers with complex legacy infrastructure footprints.

The company’s global headquarters is located in Tel Aviv, which serves as the primary hub for R&D, product management, and security research. The three founders are veterans of IDF Unit 8200, a background that heavily influences the company's local hiring pipeline. In Israel, Silverfort actively recruits software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity researchers to support its core platform development.