Security News > 2022 > June > Israel plans ‘Cyber-Dome’ to defeat digital attacks from Iran and others

The new head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate has announced the nation intends to build a "Cyber-Dome" - a national defense system to fend off digital attacks.

Gaby Portnoy, director general of INCD, revealed plans for Cyber-Dome on Tuesday, delivering his first public speech since his appointment to the role in February.

"The Cyber-Dome will elevate national cyber security by implementing new mechanisms in the national cyber perimeter, reducing the harm from cyber attacks at scale," Portnoy told a conference in Tel Aviv.

"The Cyber-Dome will also provide tools and services to elevate the protection of the national assets as a whole. The Dome is a new big data, AI, overall approach to proactive defense. It will synchronize nation-level real-time detection, analysis, and mitigation of threats."

Portnoy said the Cyber-Dome is needed because INCD detected and defeated 1,500 cyber-attacks last year alone.

He did say the Dome alone won't help Israel to secure its digital domain.

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