Unit 8200

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

The event comes as artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are reshaping the technology sector and forcing companies and professionals to adapt to new realities.

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Alumni from Unit 8200 attend annual conference in 2025.
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

Born from offensive cyber units, Mars Security brings battlefield tactics to enterprise defense

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
UNIT 8200 soldiers in action – working with data.

Tax Authority wants army tech veterans tied to Israel

Tax Authority wants that in return for the prestigious training that the state provides to these employees, they will undertake to keep their economic activity and tax base in Israel for a decade.

|ByELA LEVI-WEINRIB/GLOBES/TNS
An illustration of ChatGPT over a backdrop of the Iranian flag.

Two Israeli brothers indicted after selling fake AI-generated information to Iranian agent

The defendants' lawyer asserted that they acted to "harm and deceive the Iranian enemy and should be awarded the Israel Prize for their contribution to the nation's security."

|ByEFRAT FORSHER

Ex-’Israeli NSA’ chief: Cyber doomsday scenario avoidable

Zafrir said he was concerned that technology and network administrators “will lose confidence in the network."

NOVEMBER 19, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Employees, mostly veterans of military computing units, use keyboards as they work at a cyber hotline facility at Israel's Computer Emergency Response Centre (CERT) in Beersheba, southern Israel

IDF cyber warriors thwart major ISIS aviation terror attack

Spread across the country, the online soldiers of Unit 8200 are on the front line of Israel’s cyber wars 24/7, 365 days a year to identify possible threats and effectively neutralize them.

FEBRUARY 21, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Female IDF soldier in the J6/C4I Cyber Defense Directorate.

Unit 8200 hits the road in America

A dozen women, along with seven start-up founders, to speed-date with US investors.

OCTOBER 25, 2017ByMAX SCHINDLER
Morning commuters are seen outside the New York Stock Exchange.