Legit Security
Israeli application-security and software-supply-chain security company founded in 2020 by three Unit 8200 veterans, Roni Fuchs, Liav Caspi and Lior Barak
| Legit Security
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| Logo |  Legit Security logo |
| Type | Private company |
| Founded | September 2020 |
| Founder(s) | Roni Fuchs, Liav Caspi, Lior Barak |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel; operations in the United States |
| Industry | Cyber security |
| Services | Application security posture management (ASPM); software supply-chain security; secrets scanning |
| Number of employees | 78 (September 2023) |
| Homepage | legitsecurity.com |
Legit Security is an Israeli cyber-security company that sells an "application security posture management" (ASPM) platform to find and fix security weaknesses in software from code to cloud.[1] It was set up in September 2020 by Roni Fuchs, Liav Caspi and Lior Barak, who, according to Ctech, "met while serving in the IDF's 8200 military intelligence unit" (Unit 8200).[1] Fuchs has written that he had known his co-founders "for many years beginning in the Israeli Defense Forces at Unit 8200".[2]
History
Legit Security came out of stealth in January 2022, after more than a year of development, with a team that Fuchs said had been assembled "across the U.S. and Israel".[2] It raised a $26.5 million Series A and, in September 2023, a $40 million Series B led by CRV, with its existing investors Cyberstarts, Bessemer Venture Partners and TCV.[1] TechCrunch reported that this brought its total funding to $77 million and that it then had 78 employees.[3]
Founders and military service
- Ctech reported that the three founders "met while serving in the IDF's 8200 military intelligence unit" (Unit 8200; Intelligence Corps).[1] TechCrunch wrote that they "all served together in the cyber warfare division of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)" and later worked at companies including Microsoft and Checkmarx.[3]
- Roni Fuchs, co-founder and chief executive: one of the first employees of Aorato, which Microsoft bought in 2014; he then founded the start-up Lumobit, which merged into Checkmarx.[1] In his launch post he wrote: "I've known co-founders Liav and Lior ... for many years beginning in the Israeli Defense Forces at Unit 8200. We gained invaluable experience there".[2]
- Liav Caspi, co-founder and chief technology officer; and Lior Barak, co-founder and vice-president of R&D: both joined Lumobit as its first employees.[1]
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Meir Orbach, Legit Security nets $40 million Series B to secure application delivery from code to cloud Ctech, 20 September 2023, accessed 10 November 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roni Fuchs, Announcing Legit Security: The Story Behind Our Mission Legit Security, 24 January 2022, accessed 10 November 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kyle Wiggers, Legit Security lands $40M to lock down apps and dev environments TechCrunch, 20 September 2023, accessed 10 November 2026.