Israel’s government and private businesses strive to arm themselves with the right defenses and secure their infrastructure, ahead of threatened cyber-attacks by ‘hacktivistsl.’

In its third year of coordinating cyber attacks against Israel, the online “hacktivist” group Anonymous decided to up its rhetoric. On April 7, the group promised in a video, it would unleash “an electronic Holocaust” on the Jewish state, threatening to wipe Israel from the cyber- security map.