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Surveillance companies are increasingly interested in hacking IoT devices like Amazon Echo (AP Photo / Elaine Thompson, file)
With an impressive $ 12.4 million seed and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak as a co-founder, alongside an "all-star" leadership team, Toka Cyber , based in Tel Aviv, can certainly claim to have set a promising start Monday, Toka is unveiled as an atypical force in the field of digital security, acting as a one-stop shop for intelligence agencies and application the law .. Whatever the spy tool they need, Toka will attempt to fabricate it.The privacy activists hope that the company will fulfill its promise to operate in a way that
This could include hacking tools for like the Apple iPhones, said General Yaron Rosen, former head of the tooth in Toka. But Rosen told Forbes that the company would specialize in espionage tools targeting the Internet of Things (IoT), a generic term for all connected devices that do not are not your computer or your standard smartphone. Devices like Amazon & # 39; Echo or Apple TV are two of the best-known examples of IoT technologies, but connected thermostats, refrigerators and alarms also fall under the banner of IoT devices, which will be estimated at $ 35 billion by the end of this year.
From where the interest of the monitoring companies to take remote control of IoT machines. Rosen gave Forbes an example of how his IoT exploits could work in the real world. Imagine, Rosen feasted, a terrorist took hostages in a closed space. As the SWAT team approached, the agents, instead of bursting into the hostage space, could hack devices connected beyond the walls to get a visual or audio signal in the room. piece, he explains.
The company does not know yet whether it will specialize in devices like Amazon Echo because it waits for what customers want. Toka will also offer "cyber designer services" for a "holistic" approach to digital security. "We believe it's a new category, a cybernetic capacity building company," he said.
The $ 12.5 million seed appears to be a record round for the market. Given the political and industrial weight of the company, it may not be a surprise. Alongside Rosen, the remaining co-founders include former Prime Minister Barak, the former vice president of Israeli giant cybersecurity Check Point Alon Kantor and Kfir Waldman, previously CEO of Security and Corporate Affairs Kayhut and Go Arc mobiles. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Capital Entry, Dell Capital Technologies, Launch Capital and Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, an e-badytics company.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, one of the co-founders of Toka. (Photo credit: MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP / Getty Images)
Offended by a cyber "offensive"
The positivity of Toka does not go against the rise of the tools of professional hacking. A source of anxiety: Toka will not reveal the vulnerabilities they find in the various technologies that they hack to sellers, whose products will remain open to attack exploiting these flaws.
The Toka niche surveillance industry, commonly known as "lawful interception". "Market, is often at the center of human rights fury.Another Israeli surveillance company, NSO Group, has been involved in a spying scandal in Mexico, where journalists, lawyers and activists would have had their smartphones targeted by the company's spyware. (The ONS has neither confirmed nor denied whether its tools had been used in the attacks, but has worried abuse of its tools.)
John Scott-Railton, Cybersecurity and Privacy Researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab In the surveillance market, there is no Was not previously responsible for keeping control of their espionage tools, which could be dangerous if they fell into the hands of governments with weak human rights backgrounds. "If j & # 39; 39, was an investor, I would look carefully at the the type of risk these companies run. We have not yet seen a company that can effectively control the use of its tools and all the companies we examined have been found to have a lot of abuse cases, "he said. [19659003] companies to soften their scruples, with predictable results.When you look at a company selling intrusion technologies to a growing global customer list and you are going to encounter abusive abuse. "
Scott-Railton also noted an irony: investors were investing, on the one hand, companies that were defending against cyber attacks and, on the other hand, start-ups that were hacking for profit. Dell Technologies Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, for example, have already invested millions of dollars in defensive companies. "So, is it a conflict of interest when one of their investments is busy trying to identify vulnerabilities in order to protect their customers and another is busy trying to use the same vulnerabilities? "asked Scott-Railton
. emphasize that the company will take steps to ensure that its products are not misused. Toka is establishing an ethics committee and Rosen has confirmed that Russia, China and the "other enemy countries" would never be customers.
Although several sources in the surveillance and investment spheres described Forbes Operating in the "offensive security" market, Rosen was keen to point out that Toka was not in the offensive sector. It was a question of semantics, he explained. There was a common ground between cyber defense and the offensive, where intelligence tools were finally designed to ensure public safety, added Rosen
"Let's be very clear – we do not no offensive things ". "Is there anything in the middle?" Yes, there is, it is intelligence, they are the twins of all government agencies.
"We are in the field of defense and intelligence. If you want to defend, you need intelligence. "
Surveillance companies are increasingly interested in hacking IoT devices like Amazon Echo (Photo AP / Elaine Thompson, File)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, co-founder, and An "all-star" management team, Toka Cyber, based in Tel-Aviv, can certainly claim to have defined the definition of a promising start. it sneaks out on Monday, Toka reveals itself as an atypical force in the digital security sphere, acting as a one-stop shop for intelligence and law enforcement agencies .. Whatever the tool is. Spying they need, Toka will try to make them Privacy activists hope that the company will fulfill its promise to operate ethically.
This could include hacking tools for devices like the Apple iPhones, said General Yaron Rosen, former head of the Israel Defense Forces. taff, now president of Toka. But Rosen told Forbes that the company would specialize in espionage tools targeting the Internet of Things (IoT), a generic term for all connected devices that do not are not your computer or your standard smartphone. Devices like Amazon & # 39; Echo or Apple TV are two of the best-known examples of IoT technologies, but connected thermostats, refrigerators and alarms also fall under the banner of IoT devices, which will be estimated at $ 35 billion by the end of this year.
From where the interest of the monitoring companies to take remote control of IoT machines. Rosen gave Forbes an example of how his IoT exploits could work in the real world. Imagine, Rosen feasted, a terrorist took hostages in a closed space. By the time the SWAT team approached, agents, instead of exploding in the hostage space, could hack devices connected beyond the walls to get sound or sound. audio in the room, he explains
Will be specialized in devices like Amazon Echo, because it waits what customers want. Toka will also offer "cyber designer services" for a "holistic" approach to digital security. "We believe it's a new category, a cybernetic capacity building company," he said.
The $ 12.5 million seed appears to be a record round for the market. Given the political and industrial weight of the company, it may not be a surprise. Alongside Rosen, the remaining co-founders include former Prime Minister Barak, the former vice president of Israeli giant cybersecurity Check Point Alon Kantor and Kfir Waldman, previously CEO of Security and Corporate Affairs Kayhut and Go Arc mobiles. Investors are Andreessen Horowitz, Capital Entry, Dell Capital Technologies, Launch Capital and Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, an e-badytics company.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, one of Toka's co-founders. (Photo credit: MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP / Getty Images)
Offended by a cyber "offensive"
The positivity of Toka does not go against the rise of the tools of professional hacking. A source of anxiety: Toka will not reveal the vulnerabilities they find in the various technologies that they hack to sellers, whose products will remain open to attack exploiting these flaws.
The Toka niche surveillance industry, commonly known as "lawful interception". "Market, is often at the center of human rights fury.Another Israeli surveillance company, NSO Group, has been involved in a spying scandal in Mexico, where journalists, lawyers and activists would have had their smartphones targeted by the company's spyware. (The ONS has neither confirmed nor denied whether its tools had been used in the attacks, but has worried abuse of its tools.)
John Scott-Railton, Cybersecurity and Privacy Researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab In the surveillance market, there is no Was not previously responsible for keeping control of their espionage tools, which could be dangerous if they fell into the hands of governments with weak human rights backgrounds. "If j & # 39; 39, was an investor, I would look carefully at the the type of risk these companies run. We have not yet seen a company that can effectively control the use of its tools and all the companies we examined have been found to have a lot of abuse cases, "he said. [19659003] companies to soften their scruples, with predictable results.When you look at a company selling intrusion technologies to a growing global customer list and you are going to encounter abusive abuse. "
Scott-Railton also noted an irony: investors were investing, on the one hand, companies that were defending against cyber attacks and, on the other hand, start-ups that were hacking for profit. Dell Technologies Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, for example, have already invested millions of dollars in defensive companies. "So, is it a conflict of interest when one of their investments is busy trying to identify vulnerabilities in order to protect their customers and another is busy trying to use the same vulnerabilities? "asked Scott-Railton
. emphasize that the company will take steps to ensure that its products are not misused. Toka is establishing an ethics committee and Rosen has confirmed that Russia, China and the "other enemy countries" would never be customers.
Although several sources in the surveillance and investment spheres described Forbes Operating in the "offensive security" market, Rosen was keen to point out that Toka was not in the offensive sector. It was a question of semantics, he explained. There was a common ground between cyber defense and the offensive, where intelligence tools were finally designed to ensure public safety, added Rosen
"Let's be very clear – we do not no offensive things ". "Is there anything in the middle?" Yes, there is, it is intelligence, they are the twins of all government agencies.
"We are in the field of defense and intelligence. If you want to defend, you need intelligence. "
