Lacoon

Lacoon Mobile Security was a cybersecurity company that developed security software for mobile devices. Founded in 2011 by Michael Shaulov, Ohad Bobrov, and Emanuel Avner, who were experts from the mobile cybersecurity and defense industries, the company was based in Tel Aviv, Israel, with a sales team in San Francisco, USA. The founding team included veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) Unit 8200, a signal intelligence and code decryption unit.

The company's core product, Mobile Fortress, was a solution designed to protect organizations from mobile cyber threats on both iOS and Android platforms. It utilized a behavior-based model and a defense-in-depth strategy, combining an on-device agent with cloud-based analytics to detect and mitigate risks. This technology was capable of identifying device, application, and in-network threats, including zero-day attacks and malware that other systems might miss. The platform was particularly focused on enterprises with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, addressing the vulnerabilities these practices introduced to corporate networks. One notable success was the detection of the Xsser mRAT spyware, an iOS trojan linked to Chinese government cyber activity targeting protestors in Hong Kong.

Lacoon raised a total of $10.5 million over two funding rounds. An initial seed round of $2.5 million in August 2012 included investors Shlomo Kramer (a co-founder of Check Point) and Michael Boodaei. This was followed by a Series A round of $8 million in October 2013, with investors such as Index Ventures. On April 2, 2015, Check Point Software Technologies announced its acquisition of Lacoon for an estimated $80 million to $100 million. The acquisition was intended to bolster Check Point's own mobile security offerings, integrating Lacoon's advanced threat prevention, behavioral risk analysis, and real-time anomaly detection into Check Point's Capsule solution.

Keywords: mobile security, threat prevention, BYOD security, cybersecurity, mobile threat detection, iOS security, Android security, zero-day attack prevention, behavioral risk analysis, network threat detection, mobile malware, Check Point, cyber espionage, data exfiltration, anomaly detection, enterprise mobile security, Mobile Fortress, application threat emulation, device security, cloud-based security analytics