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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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Security Cybersecurity Behavioral AnalyticsNetwork Traffic AnalysisUEBA Threat Detection Acquired

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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aid: lightcyber
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lightcyber.png
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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightcyber/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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.
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
- glilot-capital-partners
- amplify-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Security
- Cybersecurity
- Behavioral Analytics
- Network Traffic Analysis
- UEBA
- Threat Detection
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.archive.org/
- type: Press
  name: Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of LightCyber (February 28, 2017)
  url: https://web.archive.org/web/20170317203140/http://lightcyber.com/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-lightcyber/
- type: About
  name: LightCyber website (Internet Archive snapshot, March 2017)
  url: https://web.archive.org/web/20170303200451/http://lightcyber.com/
- type: Product
  name: Palo Alto Networks (acquirer)
  url: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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