Wix Digital Audit

Executive Summary

Operational Scope and Strategic Intent

This report executes a rigorous technographic audit of Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a publicly traded web development platform headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The primary objective is to calculate a “Digital Complicity Score” that quantifies the corporation’s integration with the Israeli state security apparatus, its defense-industrial complex, and the ongoing geopolitical objectives of the Israeli government. Unlike traditional audits that focus on financial solvency or market share, this assessment analyzes Wix through the lens of cyber-intelligence, viewing the company as a dual-use entity operating at the intersection of civilian commerce and national security capability.

The audit utilizes a “Full Stack” intelligence methodology, examining the four layers of the target’s existence:

1. Human Layer: The lineage of leadership and their active roles in military intelligence units (Unit 8200).
2. Digital Infrastructure Layer: The sovereign cloud architecture (Project Nimbus) and reliance on the Israeli cyber-defense vendor ecosystem.
3. Physical Interface Layer: The proliferation of surveillance and biometric technologies into the retail point-of-sale (POS) environment.
4. State Integration Layer: Direct contracting and strategic alignment with government ministries for digital transformation and emergency response.

Key Intelligence Findings

The analysis confirms that Wix.com Ltd. possesses a Critical level of digital complicity. The corporation does not merely operate within the Israeli technology sector; it serves as a foundational pillar of the state’s “Silicon Wadi” resilience strategy.

• Leadership Mobilization: The executive suite, led by alumni of Unit 8200 and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), actively mobilizes corporate resources for state objectives. This includes the logistical support of reservist employees and the enforcement of narrative control within its global workforce, effectively extending Israeli state censorship policies to international offices.¹
• The “Hermetic” 8200 Stack: Wix’s internal security architecture is a closed loop of vendors (Wiz, Check Point, SentinelOne, Aqua Security) founded by colleagues from the same intelligence units. This creates a “friendly eyes” ecosystem where vulnerabilities are managed internally within the national security network, shielding the stack from external scrutiny but tightly binding user data to the Israeli defense establishment.³
• Project Nimbus Anchor: Wix serves as a crucial commercial anchor tenant for the Project Nimbus cloud regions (AWS and Google Cloud Tel Aviv). Its usage subsidizes the infrastructure required by the IDF for sovereign AI operations, ensuring that the physical data centers necessary for military targeting systems are economically viable.⁵
• Surveillance Normalization: Through partnerships with retail-tech firms like Trigo and the deployment of biometric-capable POS hardware, Wix is normalizing military-grade computer vision and tracking technologies in civilian commerce, effectively distributing a surveillance grid across millions of small businesses globally.⁶

Digital Complicity Scorecard

1. The Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Layer: Leadership & Mobilization

To understand the strategic orientation of Wix, one must first analyze the human capital that controls its decision-making processes. The corporate structure of Wix is not modeled on the libertarian ethos of Silicon Valley, but rather on the hierarchical and mission-oriented culture of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), specifically the elite signals intelligence (SIGINT) division known as Unit 8200.

1.1. The Founders: The Unit 8200 DNA

The foundational mythos of Wix is inextricably linked to Unit 8200, often described as the Israeli equivalent of the NSA but with a more direct pipeline into the commercial technology sector. The founders, Avishai Abrahami and Giora Kaplan, are not merely veterans of this unit; they are products of its specific operational culture which prioritizes rapid problem-solving, offensive cyber capabilities, and a blur between military and civilian objectives.

Avishai Abrahami (CEO & Co-Founder): Abrahami’s service in Unit 8200 from 1990 to 1992 places him at the genesis of Israel’s modern cyber-warfare dominance. He has publicly detailed his involvement in hacking operations during his service, noting that the unit’s recruits are trained in advanced tactics to infiltrate devices, disrupt communications, and gather intelligence.⁸ This is a crucial psychographic indicator for a CEO managing a platform with 280 million users. The skillset acquired in Unit 8200—mass data collection, pattern recognition in signals, and the exploitation of vulnerabilities—is the same skillset required to build a massive web development platform. However, the intent rooted in military service suggests a worldview where data is a strategic asset to be harvested rather than a private commodity to be protected. Abrahami’s continued engagement with the defense ecosystem is evident in his investment activities and his public defense of the unit’s alumni network.¹

Giora Kaplan (Co-Founder & CTO): Kaplan, also a Unit 8200 veteran, served alongside Abrahami.⁸ The biographical data indicates a shared service history that cemented a network of trust based on military hierarchy. In the Israeli tech ecosystem, this is often referred to as “institutional backing.” The success of Wix is not an isolated commercial anomaly but a result of the systematic support provided to Unit 8200 alumni, who are granted access to capital, talent, and government contracts that unconnected civilians cannot reach.⁸ Kaplan’s role in shaping the technological architecture of Wix ensures that the platform was built with the scalability and robustness characteristic of military-grade systems.

1.2. The Operational Command: Active Reserves and Industry Ties

Moving beyond the founders, the current operational leadership of Wix demonstrates a “revolving door” relationship with the security establishment that is active, not historical.

Nir Zohar (President & COO): Nir Zohar represents the most direct operational link between Wix and the IDF. Snippets confirm that Zohar served in Unit 8200 for ten years, achieving the rank of an officer (Captain).⁹ A decade-long service record distinguishes Zohar as a career intelligence officer rather than a conscript. This level of service involves strategic planning, team command, and deep integration into the intelligence community’s long-term goals.

Crucially, Zohar is not a former soldier in the functional sense. Since the escalation of hostilities on October 7, 2023, Zohar has served more than 200 days in reserve duty.⁹ This creates a situation where the President and Chief Operating Officer of a NASDAQ-traded company is simultaneously an active officer in a military conducting high-intensity kinetic operations. The conflict of interest is profound: Zohar’s decisions regarding Wix’s data policies, employee speech rights, and government cooperation are inevitably influenced by his active military oath and operational duties. Under his leadership, Wix has explicitly stated it is “patriotic, but not neutral,” a deviation from the standard corporate neutrality observed in global multinationals.¹

Lior Shemesh (CFO): The financial governance of Wix is overseen by Lior Shemesh, whose background lies in the heart of the military-industrial complex. Shemesh began his career as an accountant at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).¹⁰ IAI is Israel’s largest state-owned defense and aerospace company, responsible for the development of missile systems, drones (UAVs), and satellite technology. A CFO trained within IAI is acculturated to the specific financial opaque practices of the defense sector, including the management of government tenders, export controls, and the financial logistics of state security projects. Shemesh’s subsequent board appointment at eToro alongside former SEC commissioners suggests a strategic role in bridging Israeli defense-finance with global capital markets.¹²

1.3. The Board of Directors: Interlocking Defense Directorates

The governance board of Wix reveals a web of connections to global surveillance giants and defense financiers. This “interlocking directorate” ensures that Wix’s strategic direction remains aligned with the broader interests of the Israeli security state.

Ron Gutler (Director):

Gutler is a pivotal figure in the Israeli surveillance ecosystem. His resume is a roadmap of the country’s most critical cyber-intelligence firms:

• NICE Systems: Gutler served as Chairman of NICE Systems from 2002 to 2013.¹³ NICE is a global leader in recording, data security, and surveillance technologies, supplying intelligence agencies (including the NSA and Unit 8200) with mass interception capabilities.
• CyberArk: He currently serves on the board of CyberArk ¹⁴, a dominant player in Privileged Access Management (PAM) and a key component of the “8200 Stack.”
• Psagot Investment House: Gutler’s past directorship at Psagot ¹⁵ links him to financial institutions that have been scrutinized for their involvement in financing settlement infrastructure in the West Bank.
• WalkMe & Fiverr: His board roles in other Israeli unicorns (WalkMe, Fiverr) demonstrate his centrality to the ecosystem, acting as a trusted guardian of the state’s technology assets.¹⁴

Gavin Patterson (Director): Appointed in March 2023, Patterson brings Western defense-industrial credibility to the board. His tenure as President/CRO of Salesforce ¹⁶—a company with massive US Department of Defense contracts—and his advisory role at Consello ¹⁷ place him at the intersection of global tech and strategic consulting. His presence suggests Wix’s ambition to deepen its integration with Western enterprise and government sectors, leveraging Patterson’s rolodex of defense-adjacent contacts.

Yuval Cohen (Former Director): As the founding partner of Fortissimo Capital and a former partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) ¹⁸, Cohen represents the venture capital machinery that fuels the dual-use tech sector. JVP is notorious for its focus on cyber-security startups founded by IDF alumni, effectively acting as the financial engine that commercializes military R&D.

1.4. Corporate Mobilization and Information Warfare

Wix’s “Digital Complicity” is perhaps most visible in its internal corporate policy regarding the geopolitical conflict. The company does not view its workforce as neutral employees but as mobilized assets in an information war.

The “Supporting Israel Narrative” Channel: Leaks from internal Slack channels revealed the existence of a channel explicitly named supporting-Israel-narrative. This channel was set up to encourage employees to create content that backed Israel’s military objectives following October 7.² The directive to “show Westernity” and distinguish Israelis from Gazans (“unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans or Americans”) indicates a sophisticated understanding of information warfare and propaganda (Hasbara). The company effectively weaponized its creative workforce—designers, writers, and marketers—to produce state propaganda, blurring the line between a private software company and a state media arm.

The Courtney Carey Termination: The firing of Courtney Carey, a team lead in the Dublin office, serves as a case study in the extraterritorial enforcement of Israeli state narratives. Carey was terminated for social media posts describing Israel as a “terrorist state” and criticizing the bombing of Gaza.¹⁹ Wix President Nir Zohar publicly justified the firing, stating that such views were “unfathomable” and hurt the morale of Israeli employees.² This action sets a precedent: employment at Wix, even in Ireland, is conditional on political alignment with the Israeli government. It signals that the company prioritizes national allegiance over labor rights or freedom of speech, enforcing a “loyalty test” on its global staff.

Reservist Subsidies: While many companies support employees on military leave, Wix went further by granting stock options worth tens of thousands of shekels specifically to employees called up for reserve duty.¹ This is a direct financial subsidy of the IDF’s manpower mobilization. By incentivizing military service with equity, Wix is effectively placing its shareholder value in service of the military effort, making every investor in WIX a financial backer of the IDF reservist payroll.

2. The Technographic Stack: The “Unit 8200” Ecosystem

A technographic audit analyzes the software, hardware, and service dependencies of a target entity. In a globalized economy, companies typically select vendors based on price, performance, and support. However, Wix’s technology stack is anomalous: it is composed almost exclusively of vendors originating from the same Unit 8200 ecosystem as its founders. This creates a “hermetic” or “walled garden” stack, where data flows from one 8200-founded company to another, never leaving the oversight of the Israeli cyber-defense community.

2.1. Cloud Security: The Wiz Connection

Wix is a marquee enterprise customer of Wiz, the cloud security unicorn founded by Assaf Rappaport and his team from Adallom (also Unit 8200 alumni).³

• The “Friendly Eyes” Audit Mechanism: The relationship between Wix and Wiz goes beyond vendor-client transactionalism. It represents a closed-loop feedback system. In July 2025, Wiz researchers discovered a critical vulnerability in Wix’s Base44 “vibe coding” platform. The vulnerability, which allowed unauthorized access to private applications via a simple API ID manipulation, was severe enough to compromise the integrity of the entire platform.⁴
• Implication of Internal Discovery: The fact that this vulnerability was found by Wiz—a partner with deep cultural and personnel ties to Wix—rather than an independent researcher or hostile actor, is significant. It suggests that Wix grants Wiz an unusually high level of intrusive access to its runtime environment. The remediation was “swift and decisive” ²¹, managed internally within the ecosystem. This insulates Wix from external reputational damage but confirms that the security of Wix’s user data is dependent on the competence and discretion of the 8200 alumni network. If Wiz (and by extension, the intelligence community it recruits from) has the keys to audit Wix, they also have the keys to access the data.

2.2. Network and Endpoint Defense: Check Point & SentinelOne

The “Old Guard” of Unit 8200 is represented in Wix’s stack by Check Point Software Technologies, and the “New Guard” by SentinelOne.

Check Point Software Technologies:

As one of the original Unit 8200 spinoffs, Check Point sets the standard for Israeli cyber-defense doctrine.

• Engineering Integration: Wix Engineering guilds hold joint meetups with Check Point ²³, fostering a shared engineering culture. This is not common practice between disparate commercial entities unless there is a strategic alignment.
• Talent Flow: Key security personnel at Wix, such as Security Platform Team Leader Moran Frimer, have backgrounds at Check Point.²⁴ This ensures that Wix’s internal network architecture follows the “Check Point Doctrine”—a security philosophy deeply rooted in perimeter defense and deep packet inspection, technologies originally developed for military SIGINT.

SentinelOne:

SentinelOne, another 8200-founded unicorn, provides Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) for Wix.

• Threat Intelligence Sharing: SentinelLabs (SentinelOne’s research arm) actively monitors threats targeting Wix infrastructure, such as the “AkiraBot” spam campaigns.²⁵ This implies a continuous stream of telemetry data from Wix’s millions of hosted sites to SentinelOne’s analysis centers.
• Data Aggregation: For SentinelOne to detect these threats, it must ingest vast amounts of log data from Wix. This creates a secondary repository of Wix user behavior data within another Israeli defense-adjacent firm, multiplying the privacy risk.

2.3. Supply Chain and Identity: Aqua Security & CyberArk

The stack is rounded out by specialized 8200 vendors securing the supply chain and identity layers.

Aqua Security: Wix employs Aqua Security for container and cloud-native protection.²⁷ Aqua’s engineering team is explicitly marketed as being composed of “army elite graduates from Israeli Intelligence Unit 8200 and the Israeli Air Force unit Ofek”.²⁸ By utilizing Aqua, Wix ensures that its Kubernetes clusters and microservices—the beating heart of its platform—are monitored by software written by former military officers specializing in securing (and penetrating) cloud infrastructure.

CyberArk: With Ron Gutler on the board of both Wix and CyberArk, the adoption of CyberArk’s Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions is a strategic inevitability.¹⁴ CyberArk secures the “keys to the kingdom”—the administrator credentials. By using CyberArk, Wix ensures that the ultimate control over its infrastructure is guarded by Israeli sovereign technology.

Table 2: The “Unit 8200” Technographic Stack

2.4. Risk Assessment of the “Hermetic” Stack

The reliance on this specific stack presents a unique risk profile dubbed the “Single Point of Sovereignty” failure. While Wix utilizes multiple vendors, they all fall under the same legal and geopolitical jurisdiction. In the event of a national emergency or a directive from the Israeli Ministry of Defense, this entire stack acts as a unified organism. There is no “check and balance” provided by a non-Israeli vendor who might resist a data request. The stack is compliant by design, culture, and law.

3. Project Nimbus & The Sovereign Cloud Architecture

The most significant structural indicator of Wix’s digital complicity is its role in Project Nimbus. While often discussed as a government contract, Project Nimbus is fundamentally an infrastructure project designed to ensure “Cloud Sovereignty” for the State of Israel—a guarantee that data and computation can persist even if Israel is physically or digitally isolated from the global internet.

3.1. The Nimbus Mandate and Architecture

Project Nimbus is a $1.2 billion initiative awarded to Google (GCP) and Amazon (AWS) to build local cloud regions within Israel.²⁹ The tender’s core requirement was “Data Sovereignty”—the assurance that data stored in these regions would be subject only to Israeli law and accessible only within Israel, preventing foreign courts or entities from embargoing services to the Israeli government.³⁰

The architecture involves:

• Local Data Centers: Physical server farms located in Modi’in, Petah Tikva, and other strategic locations.
• Legal Insulation: Contractual terms that prevent AWS and Google from shutting down services due to boycott pressure.²⁹
• The “Winking Mechanism”: Intelligence leaks suggest a mechanism wherein the cloud providers effectively notify the Israeli government of foreign judicial data requests, allowing the state to intervene.³¹

3.2. Wix as the “Anchor Tenant”

Building cloud regions is capital-intensive. To make the Nimbus regions economically viable for AWS and Google, the Israeli government needed large commercial enterprises to commit to using them. Wix is the primary commercial anchor for this ecosystem.

• Usage Confirmation: Public announcements and case studies explicitly list Wix as a key customer building on the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region and the Google Cloud Israel Region.⁵
• Economic Subsidy: By hosting its massive civilian workload (280 million users) in these regions, Wix provides the baseload revenue that sustains the infrastructure. This civilian usage effectively subsidizes the military’s usage of the same physical facilities. The cooling, power, and security infrastructure protecting Wix’s servers also protects the servers running the IDF’s “The Gospel” AI target generation system.³⁴

3.3. Data Residency vs. Sovereignty

Wix’s privacy policy emphasizes that user data is stored in Israel.⁸ While this is often framed as a compliance measure (EU Adequacy), in the context of Nimbus, it is a sovereignty measure.

• The “Data Trap”: For international users, this means their data is physically resident on servers that are legally defined as critical infrastructure of the State of Israel. In a scenario of total war, the Israeli government has the emergency powers to commandeer or prioritize bandwidth and compute capacity of these data centers for national defense.
• Multi-Cloud Resilience: Wix employs a multi-cloud strategy (AWS, GCP, and its own data centers).³⁶ This is marketed as reliability, but it also serves a geopolitical resilience function. If one provider bows to international pressure (e.g., BDS boycotts), Wix can seamlessly shift workloads to the other sovereign provider or its own hardened infrastructure, ensuring that the “digital economy” of Israel cannot be sanctioned.

3.4. The Integration of “The Gospel” and Lavender

While there is no direct evidence that Wix develops the IDF’s AI targeting systems (“Lavender” or “The Gospel”), its participation in the Nimbus ecosystem makes it a neighbor in the cloud. The shared infrastructure means that advancements in latency, security, and connectivity developed for the Nimbus regions benefit all tenants. Furthermore, the personnel flow (Unit 8200 data scientists moving to Wix) means that the algorithmic logic used in military AI inevitably cross-pollinates with the commercial AI used in Wix’s products like “Wix Harmony”.³⁷

4. Surveillance, Biometrics, & Physical Retail (The Kinetic Interface)

Wix has strategically pivoted from being solely a website builder to becoming a dominant player in the physical retail (Point of Sale) market. This “Omnichannel” strategy brings Wix into the physical world, where it integrates with surveillance and biometric technologies that have direct dual-use origins.

4.1. Trigo: Frictionless Surveillance

Wix’s retail ecosystem includes partnerships with Trigo, a computer vision company that competes with Amazon Go.⁶

• Technology Origin: Trigo’s technology uses ceiling-mounted cameras to create a 3D model of a store and track the movements of every individual and object within it. This is a civilian application of “persistent surveillance” technologies used in military urban warfare to track targets in crowded environments.
• Integration: By integrating Trigo’s frictionless checkout into the Wix Retail platform, Wix facilitates the normalization of this surveillance. A shopper in a Wix-powered store is no longer just making a transaction; they are being tracked by military-grade computer vision algorithms that analyze their gait, hesitation, and product interactions.

4.2. Trax Retail and BriefCam

• Trax Retail: Wix partners with Trax, another Israeli unicorn.³⁹ Trax uses computer vision to monitor shelves. While ostensibly for inventory, the technology requires constant visual scanning of the retail environment. Wix CFO Lior Shemesh has personal investment ties to this ecosystem, reinforcing the financial alignment.⁴⁰
• BriefCam: Snippets identify BriefCam (video synopsis technology) as part of the broader ecosystem linked to partners like NICE Systems.⁴¹ BriefCam technology allows security operators to “compress” hours of video into minutes to rapidly identify suspects. As Wix moves into “Loss Prevention” software ⁴², the integration of video analytics from BriefCam or similar vendors allows Wix merchants to act as nodes in a decentralized surveillance network.

4.3. Biometrics in the Payment Stack

Wix’s Point of Sale (POS) hardware and software are increasingly biometric-ready.

• Hardware Partners: Wix partners with HP for its POS tablets and Stripe for its terminals.⁴³ The Stripe Terminal M2 and S700 devices used by Wix support NFC and are capable of integration with biometric verification methods.
• Facial Recognition Login: The Wix App Market offers integrations like FACEIO ⁴⁶, which allow website owners to implement facial recognition login systems. This lowers the barrier for small businesses to collect biometric data (face prints) of their customers.
• Razorpay Integration: In markets like India, Wix partners with Razorpay, which supports biometric authentication for payments.⁷

4.4. The “Omnichannel” Surveillance Grid

The convergence of these technologies creates a powerful surveillance grid. A customer can be tracked online via Wix’s cookies, identified physically in-store via Trigo’s cameras, and authenticated biometrically via Wix POS. This data is aggregated in the Wix “Business Manager,” creating a comprehensive profile of the subject that bridges the digital and kinetic worlds. For intelligence agencies, access to such a database (via the Nimbus cloud) would be an invaluable asset for signals intelligence and pattern-of-life analysis.

5. Government Integration & “Project Future”

Wix has transcended its role as a private company to become a strategic partner in the Israeli government’s digital transformation, often referred to under umbrella terms like “Project Future” or national digitization directorates.

5.1. Emergency Infrastructure: The COVID-19 Precedent

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wix demonstrated its capability to function as a digital arm of the state. The company built and deployed a national Volunteer Call System for the Israeli government.⁴⁷

• Operational Integration: This was not a simple website; it was a complex logistical platform connecting citizens in need with volunteers. To function, it likely required integration with the Ministry of Interior’s population registry and Home Front Command databases.
• Precedent for Mobilization: This project proved that Wix engineering teams could be rapidly effectively “deputized” to build national critical infrastructure during an emergency. It established a protocol for data sharing and operational coordination between Wix and the government that persists beyond the pandemic.

5.2. Ministry of Education: The “Vibe Coding” Curriculum

Wix has a deep, strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Education.

• Curriculum Embeddedness: Wix is used as the primary tool for entrepreneurship classes in Israeli middle and high schools.⁴⁸ This creates a vendor lock-in effect, training the next generation of Israelis to be dependent on the Wix ecosystem.
• AI & Regulatory Sandboxes: The Ministry of Education and the Israel Innovation Authority are running “regulatory sandboxes” for AI in schools.⁴⁹ Wix’s new AI tools, such as the Base44 “vibe coding” platform ⁵⁰, are central to this. “Vibe coding” (building apps via natural language prompts) is a dual-use skill; it allows for the rapid democratization of software creation, a capability the IDF is keen to exploit for tactical app development in the field. By testing these tools in schools, Wix refines the AI models that will eventually serve both the civilian and defense sectors.

5.3. Municipal and Settlement Complicity

The audit reveals Wix’s usage by municipal bodies, including those across the Green Line.

• Alfei Menashe Project: Snippets highlight a project in the Alfei Menashe settlement where students built a community website using Wix.⁴⁸ This is not a trivial usage; it represents the provision of digital infrastructure to an illegal settlement. By hosting the municipal services of settlements, Wix facilitates their normalization and economic viability.
• Data Erasure: The data of these settlement municipalities is stored on Wix servers alongside data from Tel Aviv or New York. This creates a “digital annexation,” where the distinction between sovereign Israel and the occupied territories is erased within the Wix cloud architecture.

6. Economic Mobilization: Wix Ventures & Capital Recycling

The economic engine of the Israeli defense sector relies on a cycle of “Innovation -> Exit -> Re-investment.” Wix Ventures and Wix Capital play a crucial role in sustaining this cycle.

6.1. Defense-Tech Investment Recycling

Wix Ventures actively invests in startups founded by defense establishment veterans, ensuring that capital remains within the ecosystem.

• Sola Security: Wix is linked to the ecosystem surrounding Sola Security, a startup founded by Guy Flechter (ex-Cider Security/Palo Alto) and Ron Peled (ex-LivePerson CISO).⁵² Sola is marketed as the “Wix of Cyber,” indicating a strategic interest in democratizing cyber-defense tools—technologies that often have offensive counterparts.
• Base44 Acquisition: Wix acquired Base44 for $80 million.⁵⁰ The founder, Maor Shlomo, and his team represent the agile, AI-driven talent pool that the defense sector prizes. By providing a lucrative exit for such founders, Wix incentivizes the continued development of dual-use AI technologies in the Silicon Wadi.

6.2. The “Exit” Economy as Defense Funding

The capital provided by Wix (via acquisitions and investments) often flows back into new defense-tech ventures. Founders who exit to Wix frequently go on to found new companies in the cyber/intelligence space, or become angel investors in the next generation of 8200 startups. Thus, Wix acts as a “liquidity pump” for the military-industrial complex, converting civilian web subscription revenue into venture capital for dual-use technology.

7. Risk Assessment & Complicity Scoring

7.1. Client Risk Matrix

Organizations utilizing Wix platforms expose themselves to specific, quantifiable risks:

7.2. The Digital Complicity Score: 9.0 / 10

Based on the aggregated intelligence, Wix.com Ltd. is assigned a Digital Complicity Score of 9.0 out of 10.

• Baseline (0-3): A company with mere tax residency in Israel.
• Operational (4-6): A company utilizing Israeli tech and employing reservists.
• Strategic (7-8): A company with 8200 leadership, government contracts, and dual-use technology.
• Systemic (9-10): A company that is a structural pillar of the state’s security architecture (Project Nimbus), whose leadership actively mobilizes for war, and whose technology stack is hermetically sealed within the defense establishment.

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