All Articles

• Tanium
  
  
  • Headquarters: Emeryville, CA
  • Founded: 2007
  • Founder: Orion Hindawi, David Hindawi
  • Funding: $302.31M
  • Website: http://www.tanium.com/
    
    
  • Description: Tanium Inc. provides security and management system solutions that allow enterprises and government organizations to query and modify their managed computer assets. It offers Tanium Endpoint Platform, a platform to secure, control, and manage various endpoints; and Endpoint Security, a solution to detect and remediate threats and issues, including incident response, endpoint security lifecycle, and security ecosystem connecting solutions. The company also provides Endpoint Management that reduces tools, management, and infrastructure cost; reclaims software licenses and hardware assets; repurposes operations staff to strategic projects; retrieves software and hardware information; and provides patch management and software distribution solutions. In addition, it offers Tanium Architecture, an endpoint communications architecture solution that collects data and takes action on the endpoint. The company serves banks, retailers, and other industries.
    
    
    
    
• CrowdStrike

• Cybereason
  
  
  • Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Founders: Yonatan Amit,Lior Div, Yossi Naar
  • Founded: 2012
  • Funding: $88.6M
  • Website: http://www.cybereason.com
  • Description: Cybereason’s Endpoint Detection and Response platform detects in real-time both signature and non-signature-based attacks and accelerates incident investigation and response.Cybereason connects together individual pieces of evidence to form a complete picture of a malicious operation.
    The company's approach to security is based on the assumption that hackers will find a way into the corporate network someway anyway, so any attacks have to be detected in real-time otherwise once they are inside they can lurk for months or years.

• Cylance
  
  
  • Headquarters: Irvine, California
  • Founded: July4, 2012
  • Founder: Stuart McClure, Ryan Permeh
  • Funding: $77M
  • Website: http://www.cylance.com
• Description: Cylance is the first company to apply artificial intelligence, algorithmic science and machine learning to cyber security and improve the way companies, governments and end users proactively solve the world’s most difficult security problems. Using a breakthrough mathematical process, Cylance quickly and accurately identifies what is safe and what is a threat, not just what is in a blacklist or whitelist. By coupling sophisticated math and machine learning with a unique understanding of a hacker’s mentality, Cylance provides the technology and services to be truly predictive and preventive against advanced threats.

Countertack

Headquarters: Waltham, MA
Founded: 2007
Founder: Alan Capalik, Stan Eramia
Funding: $67.44M
Website: http://www.countertack.com
Description:
CounterTack is the leading provider of real-time, Big Data endpoint detection and response technology for the enterprise. CounterTack provides unprecedented visibility and context around operating system and binary behaviors to detect zero-days attacks, rootkits, targeted malware and advanced persistent threats, enabling our customers to improve incident response and advanced threat detection, enterprise-wide.

SentinelOne

Headquarters: Mountain View, Ca
Founded: 2013
Founder: Almog Cohen, Tomer Weingarten
Funding: $39.52M
Website: http://www.sentinelone.com/
Description:
SentinelOne is reinventing endpoint security to protect organizations against advanced threats and nation state malware. The company uses predictive execution inspection to detect and protect all devices against targeted zero day threats in real time. SentinelOne was formed by an elite team of cyber security and defense experts from Intel, McAfee, Checkpoint, IBM and the Israel Defense Forces.

Invencea

Headquarters: Fairfax, VA
Founded: 2009
Founder: Anup Ghosh
Funding: $37.4M
Website: http://www.invincea.com
Description:
Invincea is the premier innovator in advanced malware threat detection, breach prevention, and forensic threat intelligence.
Invincea is the market-leading solution that provides enterprise networks with coverage against the largest attack surface for cyber-breach attacks aimed at end-users in the form of spear phishing, drive-by download exploits, poisoned search results and user-initiated infections. The company’s solutions include a desktop security software suite and threat intelligence appliance.

Ziften Technologies

Headquarters: Austin, TX
Founded: 2009
Founder: Mark Obrecht
Funding: $35.3M
Website: http://www.ziften.com
Description:
Ziften provides groundbreaking software that enables enterprises to achieve true end-to-end visibility of people-centric devices to enhance security. Ziften Open Visibility™ and intelligence provides a more secure environment by delivering actionable analytics for any user device across the enterprise. Ziften extends existing security, system management, and event monitoring tools. It delivers crucial open intelligence of any enterprise endpoint, enabling to run your business in a more efficient, intelligent, and secure manner.

Barkly

Headquarters: Boston, MA
Founded: 2013
Founder: Mike Duffy, Jack Danahy
Funding: $17M
Website: http://www.barklyprotects.com/
Description:
In the hot endpoint security space, Barkly promises a lightweight agent to gather data – lightweight in its footprint and in its CPU usage. That makes it less intrusive to end users. Barkly is a new type of advanced security that actively protects users without slowing them down. By automatically recognizing modern attacks and stopping them before they can do more harm, companies are more prepared, more confident, and more productive with Barkly by their side. Its founders have driven other successful startups, notably OpenPages and OunceLabs, both bought by IBM.

ENSILO

Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Founded: August, 2014
Founder: Roy Katmor, Udi Yavo, Tomer Bitton, Ido Kelson
Funding: $12M
Website: www.ensilo.com
Description:
ENSilo offers a real-time targeted attack exfiltration prevention platform. enSilo has developed a platform which accurately distinguishes legitimate connections from malicious ones from the moment a connection is established. Their solution provides virtual patching against advanced targeted threats, enabling employees to keep working as usual while a device compromise is resolved. enSilo is financially-backed by Lightspeed and Carmel Ventures.

Triumfant

Headquarters: Rockville,MD
Founded: 2002
Founder: Dave Hooks
Funding: $6.75M
Website: http://www.triumfant.com
Description:
Triumfant provides companies and government entities worldwide with continuous protection from advanced malware threats. Applying mathematical theory, patented analytics and precision-remediation capabilities, Triumfant offers the best protection available at the most vulnerable location – the endpoint – enabling organizations to prevent, detect and respond quickly to sophisticated attacks that bypass traditional signature-based tools. Without lockdown, forklift upgrades, signatures or prior knowledge of any kind, Triumfant stops a breach before it becomes a full-scale attack, then automatically repairs the machine and all of the collateral damage within minutes of the attack. When inevitable attacks happen, large enterprises trust Triumfant to quickly recover and prevent loss without any disruption to the business.