CYREN Awarded Second Cybersecurity Grant from Israeli Government

MCLEAN, Va., May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CYREN (NASDAQ: CYRN) today announced it was awarded a grant of ILS 3.22 million (approximately USD 0.85 million) by the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) at Israel's Ministry of Economy and Industry. The grant is part of Israel's ongoing initiative that provides benefits to Israeli companies in order to encourage R&D activity aimed at developing technological solutions in the field of cybersecurity. CYREN received a similar grant last year as well.

"CYREN is particularly honored to be awarded a second grant from OCS, as it illustrates our continued commitment to innovation in the ongoing effort to fight ever-increasing cyberthreats," said Lior Kohavi, CTO at CYREN. "This funding helps propel significant advancements in CYREN's unique cloud-based protection technologies."

Recipient selection is based on multiple criteria, including the uniqueness of a company's technology, the importance of the problems and potential market that it addresses, plus the robustness of the company's business, including financial position, R&D capabilities and management experience. 

About CYRENCYREN (NASDAQ and TASE: CYRN) protects more than 600 million users against cyber attacks and data breaches through its cloud-based web, email, mobile and endpoint security solutions. Relied upon by many of the world's largest technology companies such as Dell, Google, McAfee and Microsoft, CYREN offers enterprise-focused security as a service (SecaaS) solutions as well as embedded solutions for software and security providers . CYREN's global cloud security platform processes more than 17 billion daily transactions and uses innovative zero-day protection technology to proactively block over 130 million threats each day. Learn more at www.cyren.com.

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U.S. Investor Contact:Garth RussellKCSA212.896.1250[email protected]

Israel Investor Contact:Iris LubitchSmarTeam+972.54.2528007 [email protected]

CYREN Media ContactMatthew ZintelZintel Public Relations281.444.1590[email protected]

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