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Threats Have Evolved. Detection Hasn't. That's Why We Built Mars.

We were the attackers. We know exactly why your detections keep missing. Mars is our answer.

Shahaf GaliliRan LererMatan Caspi

Shahaf Galili, Ran Lerer & Matan Caspi

June 16, 2026

We spent years on the other side. Cyber offense, hands-on operations. A combined experience of more than 50 years. We used every tactic in the books, and many that are still waiting to be written. We could always get in. That was never the issue. Our issue was how not to get caught. Time after time, we were amazed by how slow, inefficient, and just useless most detection capabilities were. "I am just amazed how they don't see me," a phrase we kept repeating across operations.

The defender's operating model is broken.

Attackers compound. Faster. Automated. AI-augmented. Pivoting and mutating in hours.

Defenders do the same things they did in 2018, just with more dashboards.

  • SIEMs were designed for an era when "centralize the data" was a strategy. Now it's a tax.
  • Detections are static rules brittle enough that a hash change defeats them.
  • Vendors ship false-positive-resolving bots and call it a panacea.
  • Threat intelligence, the single most valuable asset a defender has, sits in PDFs no one operationalizes.
  • Security teams triage tickets while attackers iterate.

This isn't a tooling problem. It's a posture problem. The industry has spent a decade selling reactive defense back to itself.

We're done with that.

Mars is a detection platform designed by attackers.

Our own worst nightmare, now pointed the other way.

Mars is an autonomous threat hunting and detection engineering platform. It connects directly to your existing stack, including SIEM, EDR, identity providers, cloud telemetry, and data lakes. Mars continuously converts global threat intelligence into validated hunts and production-ready detections, tailored to your environment and your organization's threat profile.

No ingestion. No rip-and-replace. No new headcount.

What Mars does.

Queries your data wherever it lives. SIEM, EDR, identity providers, cloud telemetry, Snowflake, Databricks. Your telemetry stays where it is. Mars hits it in place, in real time, across the whole environment. No duplication. No ingestion tax. No normalization project that takes a year and breaks every time a vendor changes a schema.

Turns threat intelligence into detections. Automatically. Mars continuously ingests threat intelligence from across the ecosystem, extracts attacker behavior, and maps it to your environment. The gap between knowing about a threat and detecting it, the one that's eaten security teams for a decade, closed.

Maps your coverage. Then closes the gaps. Most teams have no real answer to "what are we actually detecting?" Mars does. It builds a live view of your detection coverage, surfaces silent failures and stale rules, and tracks how your posture evolves as your environment and the threat landscape shift. Detection engineering stops being a quarterly project. It becomes a continuous posture.

Hunts, not static rules. Legacy detections are brittle. A single change in attacker tradecraft is often enough to render them ineffective. Modern detection requires a different approach: continuous hunts across the full environment that target attacker behavior rather than narrow signatures. Mars delivers a library of these hunts based on years of offensive experience, built to remain effective as adversaries evolve.

Runs 24/7. Autonomously. Tailored hunts against your telemetry, continuously, with high fidelity and extremely low false positives. On-demand hunts are one click for your team.

The time is now.

The technology is here. The threat landscape demands it. Nobody else is shipping it.

We're backed by TLV Ventures, Jibe Ventures, Bullet Ventures, CCL, and XPS. Investors who share the conviction: this problem is solvable, and the window to solve it is now.

Let's go hunting.