Israel Cybersecurity Strategy 2025: A Strategic Gateway for U.S.
The strategy reflects Israel’s commitment to defending its critical infrastructure, advancing public-private cooperation, expanding cyber capacity, and maintaining its global leadership in cybersecurity innovation, all leading to potential opportunities for U.S. companies.
In early 2025, the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) released its updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2025–2028, setting a comprehensive framework for enhancing national cyber resilience in the wake of escalating global threats and the aftermath of the Hamas-Israel Conflict. This strategy reflects Israel’s urgent commitment to strengthening digital defenses while maintaining its status as a global cyber innovation leader. For American companies, particularly in the cybersecurity and IT sectors, the new strategy opens meaningful avenues for commercial engagement and strategic partnerships.
The strategy lays out three key pillars:
- Securing the National Cyber Space: Improving national cyber defense capabilities
- National Formation: Strengthening public-private cooperation
- Developing Strategic Partnership and Future Capabilities: Advancing international collaboration; promoting R&D; building a skilled cyber talent
A central element of the strategy is the development of robust national cyber defense infrastructure. This includes scaling threat detection capabilities, enhancing incident response mechanisms, and safeguarding critical infrastructure across sectors such as energy, transportation, and healthcare. The government also plans to establish new mechanisms for real-time information sharing and early warning systems.
For U.S. firms that provide advanced Security Operations Center (SOC) technologies, threat intelligence platforms, detection and response tools (XDR, EDR), and secure network architecture solutions, this presents a significant opportunity to become technology partners in shaping Israel’s defense backbone.
Beyond state-level protections, the strategy places a strong emphasis on expanding cybersecurity coverage to the civilian sector particularly small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), municipalities, and healthcare institutions, many of which lack robust cyber protection. The INCD aims to democratize access to cyber protection by launching sector-specific initiatives and encouraging scalable, affordable solutions.
American vendors offering cloud-based, easy-to-deploy cybersecurity products such as managed detection services, identity access management (IAM), or endpoint protection are ideally positioned to serve this need.
Another major theme of the strategy is the deepening of international cooperation. Israel actively seeks to collaborate with like-minded democracies on shared cybersecurity challenges and norms development. This aligns well with American firms that have experience working with U.S. federal agencies such as DHS, CISA, NIST, and are already engaged in cross-border frameworks for critical infrastructure protection.
The strategy also commits to a long-term investment in cyber talent development, with programs targeting youth education, professional training, and re-skilling of workers from other sectors. American educational institutions, cybersecurity academies, and simulation-based training providers can contribute either through direct engagement or partnerships with Israeli universities and training centers.
Lastly, the strategy promotes innovation through expanded R&D collaboration and government-backed tech acceleration. Israel will be investing in advanced technologies, including AI-driven cyber tools, secure-by-design systems, and quantum-resistant encryption. U.S. companies and research institutions have an opportunity to co-develop cutting-edge solutions with Israeli counterparts and gain early access to a highly agile and globally respected cyber innovation ecosystem.
U.S. companies interested in learning more about the cybersecurity industry in Israel, you may contact Christina.azar@trade.gov.