Why Guardz Raised $84M to Defend the Businesses Enterprise Security Forgot

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Cybersecurity spending has poured into the enterprise for two decades, yet the small and mid-sized businesses that make up most of the economy have been left defending themselves with tools that were never built for them. That gap is exactly where Dor Eisner has placed his bet: after two decades that began in Israel's Unit 8200 and ran through a front-row seat to the dark-web threat economy at IntSights, he co-founded Guardz to arm the managed service providers who have quietly become the only line of defence for millions of SMBs.

In this conversation we get into why identity has become the new perimeter, what "AI-native" actually means once the marketing is stripped away, and the hard trade-offs of building a unified platform in a best-of-breed world.

Ishan Pandey: Hi Dor, welcome to our "Behind the Startup" series. Please tell us about yourself and what inspired you to build Guardz?

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