Israel has built an impressive innovation infrastructure for meeting these modern challenges head-on. Hence the key role of Israel’s academic institutions, with their world-leading cybersecurity departments, along with the sophistication of bodies like the IDF’s elite Unit 8200, which have been indispensable in developing Israel’s cybersecurity prowess and have supplied much of the talent for Israel’s leading cybersecurity startups. It’s this foresight and perceptiveness that has fueled Israeli innovation and ingenuity – and which will help keep the world a safer place for years to come.
Home to more than 400 active cybersecurity companies at the end of 2017, Israel is pioneering cyber innovations for an ever-more connected world. Forecasters project that there will be 20.4 billion IoT devices worldwide by 2020, and Israeli technology companies aim to play a key role in keeping them secure.
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