LightCyber

LightCyber was an Israeli-American cybersecurity company that pioneered a category it called Behavioral Attack Detection — using behavior-based profiling of network traffic and endpoint activity, rather than malware signatures or technical artifacts, to detect attackers already operating inside an enterprise network. Its LightCyber Magna platform shipped as a set of appliances and services (Magna Detector, Magna Probe, Magna Master, Magna Pathfinder, and the Magna Cloud Expert System) and was positioned for user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), network traffic analysis, security visibility, and PCI compliance. The company was backed by Battery Ventures, Glilot Capital Partners, Amplify Partners, and angel investor Shlomo Kramer. Palo Alto Networks announced the completed acquisition of LightCyber for $105 million in cash on February 28, 2017, and engineered its automated behavioral analytics into the Palo Alto Networks security platform. The independent LightCyber brand, product line, and web presence no longer exist; the lightcyber.com domain has since lapsed from Palo Alto Networks' control and now resolves to an unrelated third-party site. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as an acquired-company lead and carries no live API artifacts.

LightCyber is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Cybersecurity, Behavioral Analytics, and Network Traffic Analysis.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySecurityCybersecurityBehavioral AnalyticsNetwork Traffic AnalysisUEBAThreat DetectionAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: LightCyber
description: LightCyber was an Israeli-American cybersecurity company that pioneered a category it called Behavioral Attack
  Detection — using behavior-based profiling of network traffic and endpoint activity, rather than malware signatures or technical
  artifacts, to detect attackers already operating inside an enterprise network. Its LightCyber Magna platform shipped as
  a set of appliances and services (Magna Detector, Magna Probe, Magna Master, Magna Pathfinder, and the Magna Cloud Expert
  System) and was positioned for user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), network traffic analysis, security visibility,
  and PCI compliance. The company was backed by Battery Ventures, Glilot Capital Partners, Amplify Partners, and angel investor
  Shlomo Kramer. Palo Alto Networks announced the completed acquisition of LightCyber for $105 million in cash on February
  28, 2017, and engineered its automated behavioral analytics into the Palo Alto Networks security platform. The independent
  LightCyber brand, product line, and web presence no longer exist; the lightcyber.com domain has since lapsed from Palo Alto
  Networks' control and now resolves to an unrelated third-party site. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network
  as an acquired-company lead and carries no live API artifacts.
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x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: palo-alto-networks
x-acquired-date: '2017-02-28'
x-acquired-price: USD 105,000,000 cash
x-domain-status: lapsed-and-repurposed
x-domain-note: lightcyber.com returns HTTP 200 but is no longer operated by LightCyber or Palo Alto Networks; as of 2026-07-19
  it serves an unrelated Indonesian online gambling site. No Website pointer is emitted and no domain-security probe was recorded,
  because the domain no longer represents this company.
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tags:
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- Security
- Cybersecurity
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- Network Traffic Analysis
- UEBA
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- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
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  name: Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of LightCyber (February 28, 2017)
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  name: LightCyber website (Internet Archive snapshot, March 2017)
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- type: Product
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  date: '2026-07-19'
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence