Four months ago, a low-severity alert from Microsoft Defender landed in a major company’s SOC. Exactly the kind no one looks at when there are a thousand other alerts per day. But unlike the human security team, Intezer’s system did look. Within ninety seconds of automated forensic investigation, it discovered something that could have slipped under the radar: a quiet attack by the Chinese government.
“This is exactly the new game attackers are playing”, explains Itai Tevet, founder and CEO of Intezer. “Their job today isn’t to evade Wiz or CrowdStrike – it’s to get flagged, but as low priority. Flying under the radar. The vendor can say ‘I alerted you,’ but the customer simply never gets there”.
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Intezer co-founders CTO Roy Halevi and CEO Itai Tevet
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Flying Under the Radar with Fortune 500 Clients
Over the past three years, Intezer has multiplied its revenue year over year, building SOC operations for companies like NVIDIA, Salesforce, MGM, and Eli Lilly, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. It holds at least 40% market share in cybersecurity’s hottest category: AI SOC – artificial intelligence systems that replace human analysts in handling security alerts.
But unlike the 20 competitors that have emerged over the past year, Intezer didn’t just plug in ChatGPT and call it a day. “The barrier to entry is very low”, says Tevet. “Anyone can open Claude or OpenAI and give it an alert. But for it to be accurate enough to fully trust – you need deep forensic investigation, reverse engineering of code. That’s our sweet spot”.
Why Most AI SOCs Just ‘Beep’ While Intezer Drives
Tevet uses a simple comparison to Mobileye to explain the difference – the same technology that beeps when you change lanes. It’s nice and helpful, but you wouldn’t let the car drive itself with just that. To reach the level of Waymo (the cars that drive without a driver), you need extremely high accuracy, so you can take your hands off the wheel.
Most of Intezer’s competition are AI Assistants – they beep when there’s a problem, help the analyst. But Intezer built something entirely different: a system that handles 98% of alerts fully autonomously, and passes only 2% requiring focused attention to the human team.
The result? Instead of analysts chasing tickets all day, the AI does the chasing. Tevet explains: “Analysts become supervisors – they verify the AI is doing the right work, that it’s not straying off course, give it fine-tuning. Instead of putting out fires all day, they can finally think”.
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How Intezer Is Changing the Rules of Cybersecurity
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The 1% Problem No One’s Talking About
In a study Intezer published several weeks ago, a troubling finding emerged: one percent of low-priority alerts are actual cyberattacks. It sounds small, but when dealing with a thousand alerts per day – that’s ten attacks flying under the radar.
“Security teams today only reach 30% of alerts”, Tevet explains. “There’s no time for a medium-priority alert when you have so many high and critical ones. So you’re missing serious risk”.
And that’s exactly why attackers shifted to a new tactic: no longer trying to avoid detection, but to be detected – but with low priority. When hackers weaponize AI to attack at massive scale – blasting out thousands of phishing emails, exploiting vulnerabilities at bot speed – it creates a new volume of alerts. “If we stay humans versus AI, we won’t keep up with this pace of cyberattacks”, Tevet states.
Dominating a Billion-Dollar Market
Intezer has raised just over $60 million to date, and will soon go out for another round. The money is designated for sales growth, but also for a technological arms race. “There’s a very serious race of the AI agent that is now a cyber professional”, says Tevet. “investment in sales and marketing has to be coupled with continuous product innovation”.
The company, which started by building advanced forensic investigation tools for human analysts, now gives those same tools to AI. It’s leading a revolution in the cybersecurity workforce – a market measured in billions of dollars – and according to Tevet, most of the Israeli industry still isn’t exposed to it.
“We work with the best clients in the world,” he sums up. “Now it’s time the rest of the world catches on”.
