Cybertech

“What will be the October 7 in the cyber space and are we ready for it? To meet this kind of challenge, we need to build better resilience, improve the culture of sharing, change all of the time."

The company says that since December 2021, it has increased its ARR by more than 300% and expanded its customer base by 200%.

If Paragon deal goes through, $500 million will be split among 400 employees and 5 entrepreneurs.

In addition, the report finds that there has been no substantial change in the number of foreign venture capital funds active Israel.

The deal, which would have been Google's largest acquisition ever, was first reported last week, but CEO Assaf Rappaport recently told employees Wiz would continue independently.

Wiz is a cloud security start-up founded in 2020 by Israelis Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, with headquarters in New York City.

The CEO of the National Cyber Defense Authority, Gabi Portnoy, spoke with Maariv and referred to the war on the technological front: "The amount of cyber attacks since October 7 has tripled"

Panama is interested in becoming a sustainable investment center and wants to increase cooperation with the State of Israel in technological and economic fields.

An Israeli tech nonprofit dedicated to monitoring antisemitism online has warned of increasing social media users' denial of Hamas's sexual violence and rape of Israelis on October 7.

The new Lockbit darkweb site showed a gallery of company names, each attached to a countdown clock marking the deadline within which that company was required to pay ransom.

Check Point Chief Executive Gil Shwed said 98% of the company's customers were outside Israel and it had successfully launched new technologies and completed acquisitions.