Zafran team
Zafran, an Israeli cybersecurity startup founded by Israeli military intelligence veterans that offers risk and mitigation services raised over $30 million in funding including a $25 million Series A raise led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts.
Founded in 2022 by Sanaz Yashar (CEO), Ben Seri (CTO) and Snir Havdala (CPO), Zafran emerged as the world’s first risk and mitigation platform to pinpoint the “exploitable” threats in the organization and to mitigate their risk by mobilizing existing security controls.
Yashar and Seri both served in the IDF’s vaunted 8200 cyber intelligence unit. Sanaz Yashar was born in Iran and came to Israel as a child. Snir, who served as a Major in the IDF, won the Israel Defense Award and the IDF Chief of Staff’s Technology award.
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Zafran transforms risk mitigation and empowers security teams to defuse threat exploitation, by connecting to both vulnerability data and the organization’s security controls. Zafran analyzes risk while taking into account controls’ efficacy as well as exploitability factors. The company’s industry-first Mitigation Knowledge-base designed to work seamlessly with EDR, firewalls, cloud tools, and more, enables organizations to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of their risk. Zafran Applicable Risk™ reflects whether vulnerabilities are exploitable or already mitigated by compensating controls, then proactively automates mitigations to eliminate the exploitation window.
“In an industry characterized by the perpetual race between attackers and defenders, the exploitation window has been consistently overlooked – and despite the inflation of security tools, organizations’ risk assessments often fail to consider existing compensative security controls, ”said Sanaz Yashar, Co-Founder and CEO of Zafran. “Zafran transforms risk mitigation by mobilizing security controls against evolving threats, bridging organizations’ security gaps and blind spots and mitigating risks at scale.”
“Rarely do we back a team with the talent and aspirations to create a whole new science in cybersecurity, fusing deep cyber expertise with customer obsession,” said Lior Simon, General Partner at Cyberstarts. “Sanaz, Snir, and Ben possess the capabilities and vision needed to construct the world’s first risk and mitigation platform, allowing organizations to mitigate vulnerability exploitation in production without relying on legacy ‘patching’ and by optimizing existing security controls. We are thrilled to partner with the team from day one on this long-term and exciting journey.”
