{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Good Tech Companies ","title":"Why Guardz Raised $84M to Defend the Businesses Enterprise Security Forgot ","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f37ca8fd\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":881,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-guardz-raised-$84m-to-defend-the-businesses-enterprise-security-forgot.\nGuardz CEO Dor Eisner on why identity is the new perimeter, what AI-native security really means, and the $84M bet on MSPs defending SMBs.\nCheck more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #guardz, #cyber-security, #software-engineering, #technology, #artificial-intelligence, #threat-intelligence, #good-company, #dor-eisner,  and more.\nThis story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nWhat is Guardz? Guardz is an Israeli-founded, Miami-anchored cybersecurity company that sells a unified, AI-native detection-and-response platform to Managed Service Providers (MSPs), who in turn secure small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). It was founded in 2022 by Dor Eisner and Alon Lavi and launched from stealth in early 2023.\n\nWho is Dor Eisner? Eisner is co-founder and CEO of Guardz. He served in Israel's Unit 8200 and was a founding executive at IntSights, the threat-intelligence firm acquired by Rapid7 for roughly $350m in 2021.\n\nHow much has Guardz raised? A total of $84m: a $10m seed (January 2023), an $18m Series A (December 2023), and a $56m Series B led by ClearSky (June 2025).\n\nWhat is Guardz's core thesis? That cybercrime has industrialised down to the smallest victim, so defence must be automated and delivered through the MSP channel, which amortises one expert across hundreds of clients. Identity, not the endpoint, is the centre of the modern attack.\n\nKey data points:\n\nStolen credentials appear in 88% of basic web-application attacks and remain the leading initial access vector across breaches (Verizon 2025 DBIR).\n\n43% of all cyberattacks target small businesses; 88% of SMB breaches involve ransomware,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HZ9CRzf5js9DK86xzUVMWBRbXYwg4dA8xVXJGVzpL6Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTNl/MjgwMmI0ZmEzNThj/YmJiOWNiN2UyZmRm/MzY3My5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}