The technical fix is rarely the hard part
Ask anyone who has run a cyber incident response and they will tell you the same thing: patching the hole is the easy part. Coordinating twenty stakeholders under pressure is not.
Cytactic is a Tel Aviv-based company building an AI-powered Cyber Incident Response Management platform - CIRM, a category it is helping to name. The pitch is deceptively simple. When an enterprise gets breached, the damage is often less about the malware and more about the chaos: poor synchronization between teams, information that does not flow, decisions that stall while the clock runs, and a cast of stakeholders - IT, legal, PR, the board, regulators, insurers - who all need different truths at the same moment.
The company was founded in 2022 by Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski and Menny Barzilay, two people who lived that chaos before deciding to code their way out of it. Their thesis is that cyber crisis management deserves its own software stack rather than a bolt-on to existing security tooling. Detection and prevention tools stop the attack; Cytactic manages everything that happens next.
The platform consolidates three phases that are usually handled by three different vendors, or by nobody at all: readiness, response and recovery. It distills insights from hundreds of real-world incidents into customizable playbooks, decision-support recommendations and response plans, then wraps them in an interface every relevant role can use.
There is a practitioner's detail baked in that gives the whole thing away: out-of-band communication. When your network is compromised, your normal email and chat may be the last place you want to coordinate a response. Cytactic plans for the moment your own tools turn against you. It is the kind of thing you only build if you have been in the room.
“One of the major cyber crisis challenges is breaking down silos within organizations.”
Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski · Founder & CEO