RSA Innovation Sandbox 2018, is one of the platform where information security startups can showcase their research and innovation. For the past 12 years, it is working as interface for cybersecurity companies to promote their new technology and connect with venture capitalists, industry veterans and experts at RSA Conference. This year, out of 10 finalists, RSA Conference awarded BigID as the Most Innovative Startup 2018 with their innovative solution for privacy risk under GDPR and Fortanix as the runner up for their excellence in Runtime Encryption.
Process Of Selection
This year RSA Innovation Sandbox team is working with Crunchbase as Exclusive media partner. Using the data provided by Crunchbase, RSA conference has calculated that in the past five years, top 10 finalists have received investments of more than $1.25billion and 15 acquisitions collectively. In the final round of the contest, each finalist have to give a presentation to jury panel that includes, Asheem Chandra, Partner, Greylock Partners, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Vice President Security and Privacy Engineering, Google, Patrick Heim, Operating Partner and Chief Information Security Officer, ClearSky and Paul Kocher, Entrepreneur/Researcher.
For more information about the current standing status and funding of the past finalists of RSA Innovation Sandbox, visit the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Leaderboard.
Top 10 finalists of RSA Innovation Sandbox 2018.
BigID- Named as “RSAC Most Innovative Startup 2018”
BigID is transforming enterprise protection and privacy of personal data. Organizations are facing record breaches of personal information and proliferating global privacy regulations with fines reaching 4% of annual revenue. Today enterprises lack dedicated purpose-built technology to help them track and govern their customer data for regulations like GDPR. By bringing data science to data privacy, BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the most important asset organizations manage: their customer data.
Fortanix- Runner up at RSAC Innovation Sandbox 2018
Fortanix is building a new category Runtime Encryption using Intel SGX. Just like encryption today protects data at rest and data during motion, Runtime Encryption keeps keys, data, and applications completely protected from external and internal threats including malicious insiders, cloud providers, OS-level hacks and network intruders. Customer gets deterministic security, unlike existing leaky security, which means their applications and data remain completely protected regardless of how the attacks originate and how root credentials are compromised. Keep your most valuable applications and data protected even when infrastructure has been compromised, even when adversary has physical access and root passwords!
Acalvio is an innovator in delivering Advanced Defense solutions using a combination of Distributed Deception and Data Science technologies. Led by a seasoned team of security, networking, data science professionals, Acalvio allows security practitioners in detecting, engaging and responding to malicious activity with high precision in a timely and cost-effective fashion.
The Awake Security Investigation Platform enables rapid, iterative and conclusive alert investigations as well as threat hunting by placing the context that security teams need at their fingertips. Gathering this context manually, if even possible, can take hours of combing through dozens of data sources. Awake reduces time-to-truth to mere minutes with a quick-to-deploy, no tuning required, platform that builds on more than two years of R&D with over 200 security teams.
BluVector is revolutionizing network security with state-of-the-art AI, sensing and responding to the world's most sophisticated threats in real time. In the years to come, BluVector’s approach to allowing seamless deployment of best of breed analytics atop a simple to use, easy to integrate platform will allow the world’s businesses and governments to operate with trust and confidence that data & systems are protected.
CyberGRX provides enterprises and their third parties with the most cost-effective and scalable approach to third-party cyber risk management today. Built on the market's first third-party cyber risk Exchange, CyberGRX arms organizations with a dynamic stream of third party-data and advanced analytics so they can efficiently manage, monitor and mitigate risk in their partner ecosystems. Based in Denver, CO, CyberGRX was designed with partners including ADP, Aetna, Blackstone and Mass Mutual, and is backed by Allegis Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blackstone, ClearSky, GV (formerly Google Ventures), MassMutual Ventures, Rally Ventures and TenEleven Ventures.
Hysolate is re-architecting enterprise endpoints, resolving the conflict between security and productivity. With roots in the elite technology units of Israeli defense and in world-class enterprise software companies, the Hysolate team knows all about cyber-security offense/defense and the daily challenges of enterprise IT. They’ve been building enterprise software for decades and are passionate about disrupting the traditional thinking about endpoints, cyber-security and IT.
ReFirm Labs is an emerging leader in the IoT and connected device security space. With decades of experience securing devices for sensitive national security applications, our team has developed a new method for vetting and validating firmware that automates the process of detecting security flaws in connected devices and mitigating them. Our Centrifuge Platform is at the forefront of this approach and is the first to deliver this capability to the commercial market. Our technology is already helping global companies secure their products by testing their firmware during and after the development process, and monitor for new vulnerabilities.
ShieldX is redefining cloud security to better protect organizations against cyber threats—regardless of where sensitive data resides or how it moves across public, private or multi-cloud environments. Organizations are using APEIRO to scale security and micro-segmentation on demand, support business innovation, meet compliance requirements and protect against the latest cyberattacks. Based in San Jose, CA, ShieldX was founded in 2015 and is privately funded.
StackRox helps enterprises secure their cloud-native applications at scale. StackRox is the industry’s first detection and response platform that defends containers and microservices from new threats. StackRox enables security teams to visualize the container attack surface, expose malicious activity, and stop attacker activity. It combines a new security architecture, machine learning, and protective actions to disrupt attacks in real time and limit their impact. StackRox is the choice of Global 2000 enterprises and backed by Sequoia Capital.
References
Source: RSA Blog https://www.rsaconference.com/press/88/bigid-named-most-innovative-startup-at-2018-rsa
Source: FireCompass Blog https://www.firecompass.com/blog/top-cyber-security-companies-at-rsa-innovative-sandbox-2018/
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