The Story Behind Cyber Dome
At Impala, we have spent years operating inside real customer environments across industries, geographies, and maturity levels.
What we consistently observed was not a lack of security tools — but a gap between investment and outcomes.
Organizations today are heavily invested in cybersecurity technologies such as SIEM, EDR, XDR, firewalls, and SOC teams.
Despite this, breaches continue to occur with significant business impact.
In real-world incidents — particularly ransomware — a consistent pattern emerges:
- Alerts are generated
- Security tools are functioning as expected
- SOC teams are actively engaged
Yet, despite all of this:
- Attackers have already achieved lateral movement
- Credentials are already compromised
- Critical systems are already affected
- Business impact is already underway
This leads to a fundamental realization: Detection is happening too late!
Because by the time alerts are triggered, attackers have already established a foothold inside the environment.
Traditional security architectures are inherently reactive, relying on identifying known patterns or anomalies after compromise has occurred. Improving rules, increasing alerts, or expanding SOC capacity does not solve this timing problem.
Therefore, a different approach is required:
Instead of focusing on post-compromise detection, Impala shifts the focus to identifying attackers at the earliest possible stage — during reconnaissance and discovery, before access is gained and impact is created.
This strategic shift led to the development of SDefender layer and ultimately the creation of the Cyber Dome operating model.
Concept & Capabilities
Cyber Dome is not another security product.
It is a unified cybersecurity operating layer that integrates technologies, processes, and operations into a single coordinated system.
This enables:
- Unified monitoring and response across all environments
- Centralized governance and operational control
- End-to-end visibility across users, systems, and environments
Cyber DOME combines:
- Pre-Attack Detection
- XDR and automated response
- SIEM capabilities (logging, correlation, visibility)
- SOAR capabilities (automation and orchestration)
- SOC operations and governance
These capabilities are delivered as a fully integrated and managed system, reducing complexity while maintaining enterprise-grade functionality.
At its core, Cyber DOME is built on:
- Israeli-developed technologies (SDefender and Cynet)
- Proven methodologies
- Field-tested deployment models
The platform operates by:
- Deploying lightweight agents across endpoints and servers
- Integrating with cloud, SaaS, identity, and network environments
- Introducing deception assets to expose attackers early
- Correlating telemetry into a centralized command layer
Automated response delivered by Impala’s Cyber Dome is critical, as manual, analyst-driven response alone is no longer sufficient to keep pace with the speed and scale of modern attacks, while proactively identifying and disrupting attackers before they establish access, thereby significantly reducing the volume of incidents reaching the SOC
Platform Architecture
Cyber Dome is designed as a layered, integrated security platform, where each layer performs a distinct role while operating as part of a unified system.
The system operates in 5 different Layers on top on each other:
1. The central command and visibility layer:
- Real-time monitoring across all environments
- Centralized incident tracking
- Attack progression mapping
- SOC and executive dashboards
- Reporting and governance visibility
2. Pre-Attack Detection & Disruption Layer
- Pre-Breach Detection & Deception
- Behavioral & Entropy-Based Detection
3. Pre-Breach Detection & Deception
- Behavioral & Entropy-Based Detection
- Detection & Response Fabric (XDR Layer)
Endpoint (EDR + EPP) :
- Network (NDR + DNS/Web)
- Identity (ITDR + UBA)
- Email Security
- Mobile Protection
4. Orchestration & Automated Response Layer (SOAR)
- Automated response playbooks
- Cross-domain containment actions
- Standardized remediation workflows
5. Intelligence & Correlation Layer
- Threat intelligence integration
- Signal correlation
- Contextual enrichment
- Risk prioritization