Rayzone Group
Israeli cyber-intelligence and ADINT company; Echo location product
| Rayzone Group
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder(s) | Yohai Bar Zakay, Ron Zilka, Matan Caspi, Eran Reshef, Yaron Elrom |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Industry | Cyber intelligence / ADINT |
Rayzone Group (Rayzone) is an Israeli cyber and intelligence company. Ctech has described it as selling locating and tracking technologies to intelligence and investigation organisations, and has reported that Rayzone also provided cyber services to private business interests in connection with an African mining arbitration dispute.[1]
Founders
According to Ctech, Yohai Bar Zakay (Yohai Bar Zakay Hasidoff) served as assistant to the Director General of the Ministry of Defence (Pinhas Buchris) before founding Rayzone with Eran Reshef, Matan Caspi, Ron Zilka and Yaron Elrom. Globes has described Bar Zakay as a former deputy commander of IDF signals intelligence unit Unit 8200.[1][2]
ADINT product Echo and export controls
Globes reported in July 2023 that Rayzone operates Echo, a service for security authorities that infers physical location of users from open ad-exchange data, and that under US pressure Israel's Defence Export Controls Agency (DECA) barred Rayzone from exporting a complementary surveillance tool based on a target's exposure to advertisements — a product Globes said could help install spyware via ads.[2] Rayzone did not respond to Globes on that story.[2]
Globes also reported that Rayzone had signed a long-term agreement with the Belgian Federal Police for its TA9 investigation platform.[2]
See also
- Discover-Tech
- Intelos
- Unit 8200
- Cyber and tech firms founded by ex Unit 8200 or occupation forces veterans
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tomer Ganon and Hagar Ravet, Israeli cyber and intelligence company Rayzone embroiled in African mining dispute, Ctech, 5 January 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Assaf Gilead, Defense Ministry sets sights on ADINT companies, Globes, 16 July 2023.