We are excited to announce our investment in Zero Networks, currently considered the emerging leader in microsegmentation, one of the most important segments of cybersecurity, a cybersecurity segment totaling $15B+ in annual spend. Microsegmentation entails dividing up an organizational network into smaller pieces, thus enabling the isolation of breaches and vastly limiting the severity of cybersecurity attacks.
Why did we invest?
Each year, ransomware and lateral network breaches represent major vulnerabilities, costing trillions in damages globally. Yet traditional cybersecurity measures, such as perimeter defenses and manual firewall configurations, are insufficient against modern threats, leaving organizations exposed to significant operational disruptions and financial losses. Microsegmentation has emerged as one of the most effective approaches in reducing an attacker’s ability to laterally move within the attacked network, thus vastly reducing the severity of cybersecurity breaches.
Despite its effectiveness, microsegmentation has historically been very difficult to implement. The approach requires both professional services to work with the companies’ IT teams, manually creating network-specific rules, as well as the installation of software to enforce these rules across the network. Thus, many microsegmentation projects have been abandoned midway because the complexity was just too overwhelming.
Zero Networks has completely pioneered this segment by enabling the automation of network-based rule creation. Considered the Holy Grail in this space, they are the first company in the world that has been able to unlock this feat, shortening deployment times from months or even years to just several weeks. Furthermore, the company is able to enforce the rules created by their platform via a centralized server, avoiding the need to install software on each endpoint.
Due to this technological unlock, Zero Networks has grown dramatically over the last couple of years, and now secures the networks of some of the top companies in the world. We reviewed over 20 different expert interviews before deciding to invest. Simply put, the company’s platform receives some of the best client and prospect feedback we have ever seen.
A bright road ahead
Zero Network’s vision is to create a holistic cybersecurity platform, spanning identity / access management, microsegmentation, and other offerings, as many of its clients are asking it to provide additional products. The CEO’s end vision is to make cybersecurity breaches a non-issue for most organizations. We believe Zero Networks has the potential to become one of the next multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity platforms coming out of Israel, and are excited to add them to our Alpha Global portfolio.
