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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|'''Israeli network-attack detection company founded by two Unit 8200 veterans; bought by Palo Alto Networks in 2017'''}}<br />
{{Infobox company<br />
| name = LightCyber<br />
| type = Acquired (subsidiary of [[Palo Alto Networks]])<br />
| founded = {{Start date|2011}}<br />
| founder = [[Giora Engel]], [[Michael Mumcuoglu]]<br />
| industry = Cyber security (network attack detection)<br />
| parent = [[Palo Alto Networks]] (from 2017)<br />
| num_employees = About 100 (2017)<br />
}}<br />
'''LightCyber''' was an Israeli cyber-security company that developed systems for detecting attackers inside corporate networks. It was founded in 2011 by [[Giora Engel]] and [[Michael Mumcuoglu]], and for the three years before its sale was run by chief executive [[Gonen Fink]], one of the first employees of [[Check Point Software Technologies|Check Point]]. In 2017 it was bought by [[Palo Alto Networks]], the company founded by [[Nir Zuk]].<ref name="GlobesLightCyber">Tali Tzipori, [https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001179107 מייסדי LightCyber שנמכרה לפאלו אלטו יקבלו 27 מיליון שקל כ"א] (LightCyber founders to receive NIS 27m each), ''Globes'' (Hebrew), 1 March 2017, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><br />
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== Founders and Unit 8200 ==<br />
''Globes'' described [[Giora Engel]] and [[Michael Mumcuoglu]] as childhood friends and "veterans of 8200" ("יוצאי 8200"). It reported that the two "served, how else, in [[Unit 8200|8200]] and gained a great deal of experience in state-level offensive cyber" ("שירתו, איך לא, ב-8200 וצברו הרבה ניסיון בסייבר התקפי ברמת המדינה"), and after their military service set up an earlier start-up, MeterLive, before founding LightCyber. At the time of the sale Engel lived in California and Mumcuoglu ran the Israeli development centre, which employed about half of the company's 100 staff.<ref name="GlobesLightCyber" /><br />
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== Sale to Palo Alto Networks ==<br />
According to ''Globes'', [[Palo Alto Networks]] paid $105 million in cash and about $25 million in shares, a total of about $130 million. LightCyber had raised $32 million, and each founder was expected to receive about NIS 27 million.<ref name="GlobesLightCyber" /> ''Ctech'' later gave the price as $105 million.<ref name="CtechSecdoL">Meir Orbach, [https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3735832,00.html Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Cybersecurity Startup Secdo], ''Ctech'', 10 April 2018, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Secdo]]<br />
* [[Cyvera]]<br />
* [[Unit 8200]]<br />
* [[Cyber and tech firms founded by ex Unit 8200 or occupation forces veterans]]<br />
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