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Startup of the Week: IXDen guarding Israel’s water supply SCiO grows in AgTech The new car safety device: your nose Israel’s cyber investment footprint expands MeMed test predicting Covid-19 severity receives CE mark SaNOtize anti-viral nasal spray goes on sale in Israel Life insurance encourages living better: YuLife BioCatch protects 2 billion digital transactions every month Introductions More than 2,800 high-tech jobs Startup of the Week:IXDen: Guarding Israel’s national water resources Network-connected sensors play an increasingly important role in the efficient operation of critical infrastructure including electricity, water, oil and gas as well as ensuring public safety. Yet these typically simple devices pose substantial security risks. They are difficult to protect from cyberattacks and failures in their sensors often go undetected. IXDen has developed a software-only AI-driven ability to predict and rapidly detect cyberattacks and sensor problems, allowing network operators to take timely corrective action. IXDen’s platform uses a proprietary combination of behavioral and mathematical algorithms, AI, machine learning, and statistics to establish “normal” behavior for a group of sensors and actuators. IXDen was selected to protect Mekorot, Israel’s...