Huskeys

Huskeys is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company that has developed an Edge Security Management (ESM) platform to modernize web application security. Founded in 2025 by CEO Itai Gafni and CTO Roy Weisfeld, both veterans of Israel's Unit 8200 intelligence unit, the company emerged from stealth in March 2026 with an $8 million seed funding round. The founders, both experienced in AI and cybersecurity, identified a fundamental failure in traditional Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), which rely on outdated technology ill-suited for modern, dynamic application environments.

Gafni previously led innovative AI initiatives within Unit 8200, while Weisfeld was a security researcher focused on web attacks. Their shared experience revealed how easily existing security solutions could be bypassed, prompting them to create Huskeys. The company's platform does not replace existing WAFs but adds an intelligent, agentic layer on top of them. This AI-driven control plane unifies security management across a company's entire edge stack, including multi-cloud and multi-WAF environments, CDNs, infrastructure, and applications.

The core of Huskeys' product is an AI engine that analyzes traffic behavior, business logic, and risk to continuously assess and orchestrate security rules and policies. This approach aims to solve common WAF issues like high rates of false positives, which can block legitimate users and impact revenue. By providing unified visibility and automating rule optimization, the platform helps security teams measure posture, map traffic, and protect against threats like API abuse, bots, and exploitation attempts more effectively. Huskeys' solution is designed for rapid, plug-and-play deployment that delivers value within hours without requiring changes to application code.

The business model is B2B, targeting CISOs, security leaders, and platform teams at high-traffic digital businesses where downtime or blocked users directly hurt revenue. Despite being a young company, Huskeys already serves dozens of global clients, including high-profile names like TikTok, Merlin Entertainments, and Hugging Face. The recent seed round was supported by a diverse group of investors, including venture capital firms like 10D, SV Angel, and ToDay Ventures, prominent cybersecurity entrepreneurs, and even professional athletes such as Mario Götze and Larry Fitzgerald.

Keywords: Edge Security Management, ESM, Web Application Firewall, WAF optimization, cybersecurity, AI security, application security, API security, multi-cloud security, threat detection, false positive reduction, network security, bot management, Itai Gafni, Roy Weisfeld, cloud security, infrastructure security, automated security, policy orchestration, configuration management, real-time threat intelligence