Cisco backs Zafran's exposure management strategy. July 23, 2026 Zafran Security has received a strategic investment from Cisco Investments, adding to the $130 million the company previously raised. Cisco joins investors including Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Menlo Ventures, PSP Growth, Vintage Investment Partners, and Amex Ventures. The companies did not disclose the size of the new investment. Zafran is building a continuous threat exposure management platform that helps enterprises identify which vulnerabilities are most likely to be used as part of an attack path. The platform brings together data from endpoint, firewall, cloud, identity, and vulnerability management tools to show how an attacker could move through an environment. The company's Exposure Graph identifies points where several attack paths converge and helps security teams decide where remediation or mitigation will reduce the most risk. Zafran can also use existing security controls to apply validated changes, giving enterprises a way to act on exposure data without adding another separate enforcement layer. Cisco's investment reflects growing demand for platforms that connect vulnerability discovery with remediation. As attackers use automation to combine weaknesses and move faster through enterprise systems, security teams need clearer ways to prioritize action across the tools they already own. Zafran is positioning its platform as the coordination layer for that work. An in-depth guide to cloud security. Get essential knowledge and practical strategies to fortify your cloud security.

Zafran announces strategic investment from Cisco Investments. ACCESS Newswire 22 Jul 2026, 18:33 GMT+ NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 22, 2026 / Zafran Security, a pioneer in AI-native Continuous Threat Exposure Management, today announced a strategic investment from Cisco Investments, extending its previously announced $130 million total funding. Cisco Investments joins existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Menlo Ventures, PSP Growth, Vintage Investment Partners, and Amex Ventures. The investment comes as enterprise security reaches an inflection point. AI is fundamentally changing how attacks are executed, enabling attackers to chain together multiple low-severity weaknesses into sophisticated attack paths at machine speed. As the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation continues to shrink, organizations have an extremely urgent situation to find vulnerability risk and remediate it before attackers do. They need to understand how attackers are most likely to move through their environment and reduce exploitable risk before those attack paths can be used. At the same time, enterprises have spent decades building best-in-class security programs. EDR, firewalls, cloud security platforms, identity systems, vulnerability scanners and countless other technologies all play an important role in defending the business. The challenge enterprises face today is the lack of a unified system that understands attack paths and coordinates action before an incident occurs. 'Organizations have made enormous investments in cybersecurity over the past decade. The opportunity now is to make those investments work together,' said Sanaz Yashar, CEO and Co-Founder of Zafran Security. 'AI has fundamentally changed how attackers operate, increasing the speed, scale, and sophistication of exploitation. Birminghamnews built Zafran to be the nerve center that helps organizations understand exploitability, identify where to act first, and mobilize the security controls they already have to reduce risk before exploitation occurs. Birminghamnews is proud to welcome Cisco Investments as Birminghamnews continue building that vision.' Built on its AI-native Exposure Graph, Zafran's Threat Exposure Management platform provides visibility into the attack paths that matter most and transforms existing security controls into a coordinated system of action. The platform identifies the critical choke points where multiple attack paths converge, enabling organizations to deploy safe, validated mitigations that reduce exploitable risk without disrupting the business. By turning fragmented security data into coordinated action, Zafran helps enterprises reduce exposure faster while maintaining business continuity. 'As the threat landscape grows increasingly complex in the AI era, the challenge for security teams has extended from identifying vulnerabilities to effectively orchestrating their remediation.' said Janey, Hoe, Vice President, Cisco Investments. 'We are excited to invest in Zafran to create a more unified, intelligence-driven security ecosystem that empowers our customers to better discover vulnerabilities and reduce risks in their infrastructure.' About Zafran Security Zafran Security is the first AI-native end-to-end Threat Exposure Management platform that helps security teams stop vulnerability exploitation everywhere. Using existing security tools, Zafran proves that 99% of critical vulnerabilities are not exploitable, then rapidly mitigates and remediates the 1% most likely to cause an incident. By bringing together discovery, prioritization, mitigation and remediation into a unified platform, Zafran helps enterprises reduce risk faster without adding operational complexity. Media Contact:

After founder departure, Cisco invests in Zafran Security. The strategic investment follows backing from American Express Ventures and expands the Israeli startup's blue-chip investor base. 20:22, 22.07.26 Cybersecurity company Zafran Security announced on Wednesday that Cisco Investments, the venture capital arm of networking giant Cisco, has invested in the company. It marks the second strategic investment Zafran has secured in the past six months, following an investment by American Express Ventures. The size of Cisco's investment was not disclosed, but it is expected to increase Zafran's total funding from approximately $130 million to more than $140 million. The investment comes just days after Calcalist revealed that Snir Havdala, one of Zafran's co-founders and its CPO, had left the company to take a management position at Nvidia. Founded in 2022 by Sanaz Yashar, Snir Havdala, and Ben Seri, Zafran was established by three cybersecurity veterans with backgrounds in Israel's defense establishment. Yashar, who was born in Tehran, immigrated to Israel, served for 15 years in Unit 8200, and later led international cyber investigations at FireEye-Mandiant, also served as the inspiration for the character of Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan, portrayed by Niv Sultan in the television series Tehran. Earlier this week, Calcalist also reported that Zafran, regarded as one of Israel's most promising cybersecurity startups, has struggled to accelerate its growth in an increasingly competitive market. Despite those challenges, the company continues to attract major strategic investors. Cisco Investments joins an investor base that includes Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Menlo Ventures, PSP Growth, Vintage Investment Partners, and American Express Ventures. "As the threat landscape grows increasingly complex in the AI era, the challenge for security teams has extended from identifying vulnerabilities to effectively orchestrating their remediation." said Janey Hoe, Vice President at Cisco Investments. According to Zafran, AI is enabling cyberattacks to become faster and more sophisticated, making it increasingly difficult for organizations to determine which vulnerabilities require immediate attention. Zafran develops software that integrates with an organization's existing security infrastructure, analyzes the data generated by multiple defense tools, and prioritizes vulnerabilities based on their actual level of risk. The platform is designed to help security teams decide which threats to address first without replacing the security systems they already use. "Organizations have made enormous investments in cybersecurity over the past decade. The opportunity now is to make those investments work together," said Sanaz Yashar, CEO and Co-Founder of Zafran Security. "AI has fundamentally changed how attackers operate, increasing the speed, scale, and sophistication of exploitation. We built Zafran to be the nerve center that helps organizations understand exploitability, identify where to act first, and mobilize the security controls they already have to reduce risk before exploitation occurs. We're proud to welcome Cisco Investments as we continue building that vision."