====== Cybereason ======

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**Cybereason** is an [[Israel|Israeli]] cybersecurity firm with offices in [[united_states:massachusetts:Boston]], [[united_states:Massachusetts]]. It "provides real-time cyber attack detection and response tech" for corporations and government agencies.

===== History =====

Cybereason was founded in 2012 by [[Lior Div]], a former member of the [[Israel Defense Forces]]' [[8200 Unit]].((//Cybereason Profile.// Top Workplaces. Retrieved February 27, 2023, from https://archive.ph/kRvIQ)) ((Magee, C. (2015, May 6). //Cybereason Raises $25M Because Corporate Security Is Broken.// TechCrunch. https://archive.ph/aR6tT))

In May 2015, the company raised $25 million in a Series B funding round from [[Spark Capital]], [[Lockheed Martin]] and [[Charles River Ventures]] (CRV).((Magee, C. (2015, May 6). //Cybereason Raises $25M Because Corporate Security Is Broken.// TechCrunch. https://archive.ph/aR6tT))

==== Election interference ====

On November 5, 2019, Cybereason led a counter-terrorism exercise called [[Operation Blackout]], simulating an attack on the [[2020 United States Presidential Election]]. Participants included the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI), [[United States Department of Homeland Security]], [[United States Secret Service]] and the law firm [[Venable]].((//Operation Blackout Summary of Events.// (2019, November 5). Cybereason. https://web.archive.org/web/20210701201116/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6548629/Operation-Blackout-Wrap-Up-Report-November-2019.pdf))

A similar tabletop exercise occurred the following month on December 11, 2019 in [[united_kingdom:England]], appropriately titled [[Operation Blackout London]].((Phillips, J. (2019, December 12). //Cybereason leads Operation Blackout hack simulation event in London.// Intelligent CISO. https://archive.ph/NqMmx)) Participants in that exercise included the [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]] (FCO), [[Government Communications Headquarters]] (GCHQ), and the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] (MPS).

Cybereason acquired fellow cybersecurity company [[empow]] on July 20, 2021.((//Cybereason - Funding, Financials, Valuation & Investors.// Crunchbase. Retrieved February 27, 2023, from https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cybereason/company_financials))

===== Organization =====

==== Investors ====

The company's investors include:((//Cybereason - Funding, Financials, Valuation & Investors.// Crunchbase. Retrieved February 27, 2023, from https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cybereason/company_financials))

  * [[All Blue Capital]]
  * [[Charles River Ventures]] (CRV)
  * [[Google Cloud]]
  * [[Irving Investors]]
  * [[Liberty Strategic Capital]]
  * [[Lockheed Martin]]
  * [[Neuberger Berman]]
  * [[SoftBank]]
  * [[SoftBank Vision Fund]]
  * [[Spark Capital]]

==== Personnel ====

^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Lior Div]]  | Founder  | [[8200 Unit]]  |
| [[Yonatan Striem-Amit]]  | Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder((Shieber, J. (2019, August 6). //Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform.// TechCrunch. https://archive.ph/47GfS))  | -  |
| [[Israel Barak]]  | Chief Information Security Officer  | -  |
| [[Yossi Rachman]]  | Head of Security Research  | -  |
| [[Alessandro Telami]]  | Senior Director  | -  |
| [[Santo Politi]]  | Board Member  | [[Spark Capital]]  |

===== External links =====

  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/Cybereason|White Rose Wiki]]
  * [[https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Cybereason|Wikispooks]]