Looking to clear up its clients’ confusion, Israeli Elbit Systems is separating its cyber security products into civilian and government divisions, the chief executive of Elbit’s Cyberbit operation, Adi Dar, said at a Reuters Cyber Security Summit Monday in Tel Aviv.
On September 18, Elbit announced that it is reorganizing the business of Cyberbit Solutions, its wholly owned subsidiary: the defense Cyber Intelligence and Cyber Security business would be integrated with Elbit Systems Land and C4I Division, while the commercial cyber business would continue to operate under Cyberbit Ltd. The reorganization will become effective on January 1, 2018.
Dar said Elbit was confusing its clients by offering commercial products alongside technologies used for national security and spying.
Dar said that the original Cyberbit strategy of offering a homeland security portfolio with phone tapping and monitoring systems together with cyber protection for banks and utilities has become “a hindrance.”
“The mix between the two provides limitations that we believe that if we remove them it would be for the benefit of the two sides of the equation,” he said at the Tel Aviv Reuters summit.
Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, President and CEO of Elbit Systems, said in a statement last month: “We are witnessing substantial growth in both the defense cyber and commercial cyber sectors and we anticipate to further broaden the activities of each sector separately.”
Machlis added that “the reorganization will enable us to better deal with future challenges of each growing market, to best match our offerings and to position ourselves as global leaders in each field.”