Unit 8200

Cyber startup Mave steps out of the shadows with $34 million fundraising

The company has developed an AI platform that analyzes security incidents in real time, and is already signing massive deals with Fortune 50 companies while planning to double its workforce.

The team of the Israeli cyber startup Mave.
Elementary Data employees.

Ex-unit 8200 alumni sell Elementary Data for Some $45 million

Alumni from Unit 8200 attend annual conference in 2025.

IDF Unit 8200 Alumni Association uses network to drive Israeli innovation, start-ups

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture.

Mars Security attempts to close the growing gap between hackers and defenders


IDF official warned of fatal intel. failures right before Oct. 7 massacre

IDF intelligence unit commander's Yom Kippur message on maintaining military readiness, two weeks before the country's largest intelligence failure on October 7, is haunting in retrospect.

 8200 Unit

Inside Unit 8200: Moving forward after the October 7 intelligence failure

The IDF's main intelligence unit was shocked on Oct. 7. Two commanders recall events on Oct. 8.

 IDF soldiers are seen working as part of the Israeli military's Gaza battlefield intelligence collection unit.

How a new Israeli friend showed me the power of language - opinion

The truth is that “hate” is unsustainable, in any language.

 THE WRITER conducts a Zoom session with ‘Sophie.’

IDF elite intel officer warned about Hamas attacks, ignored - report

This is the response they received from him: "I don't want to hear about this nonsense again. If you bother me with these things again, you will stand trial."

 Soldiers of the operational Unit 8200 training in an undated photo.

8200 Impact program to focus on accessibility, inclusion 

The program has supported 'impact-tech' for almost a decade

 A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.

Israel received critical Iran intel from IDF soldier's 15-year side project

SWO (res.) E. began monitoring Iranian communications in the 1960s, back when they were still an ally.

 IDF SWO (res.) E. is seen meeting with senior military officials to discuss Iran in this undated photo.

If key IDF reservists not ready for war – how bad could striking be? - analysis

There is no question that at least some of the nightmare scenarios of reservists striking due to judicial reform could be catastrophic for the IDF.

Reservists train during a battalion wide exercise in the Golan Heights; Illustrative.

Ex-IDF intel. officials break new cybersecurity ground in bid to transform the cloud

A new company led by an ex-chief of IDF intelligence Unit 8200 aims to make the cloud defendable against cyberattacks.

Keep your head in the cloud

PM Netanyahu: IDF cyber intel. experts training 20,000 students

IDF cyber warfare experts are training the next generation to boost the country's defense capabilities

 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference at the PM's office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023.

Israel holds cyber event at UN, Erdan calls for cyber 'iron dome'

Cyber experts must go against the grain of de-globalization, Nadav Zafrir warned, “Otherwise, none of us will be secure."

 Team8 cyber-security event at the UN.