Cool Startup: Verdasys

Verdasys, the leading cyber-security company of content aware Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for endpoints, started in 2003, and has raised $41M to date. Their DLP platform detects and stops the leakage of sensitive data. According to Gartner, Verdasys is a

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Cool Startup: Lookout (Mobile Security)

Lookout, the highly successful mobile security company started in 2007, has raised $132M. It has more than 50M users worldwide. The mobile security application comes in two flavors, business and personal edition. The mobile security app supports both iPhone and

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Is FireEye Partly To Blame For Target

FireEye, the $10B security company, has seen its stock price climb through the roof over the last six months. Everything was in perfect harmony in the land of FireEye, until the Target fiasco hit. Target ultimately paid the price for

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Case Study: DDoS Attack Against CDN Incapsula

DDoS attacks are a common occurrence for CDNs. Some are small in nature, and others are 400Gbps in size, as in the case of CloudFlare. The CloudFlare attack was a simple network attack. All CDNs provide protection against simple network

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Cool Startup: Seculert

Seculert, an Israeli startup founded in 2010, offers a next generation cloud-based advance threat management system that detects, and eliminates botnets. The founding team has decades of experience working for top tier security companies. The Seculert platform is easy to

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Aryaka Networks and Zscaler at Crossroads

Aryaka Networks and Zscaler are at a crossroads. Perhaps, the biggest threat facing Aryaka is not Riverbed, Akamai, or Carriers offering MPLS, but Zscaler. Zscaler is the highly successful cloud security company with 100+ POPs, 4500+ customers and 12M users

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Cool Startup: Lastline

Lastline, a cyber security startup, was founded by three computer science professors in 2011. Lastline has developed a security platform similar to FireEye. The timing for this startup is right on, as it is now at the forefront of the

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Next Generation Malware

Just when you thought malware couldn’t get any scarier, think again. The next generation of malware is becoming orders of magnitudes more sophisticated. The new battleground isn’t in the corporate perimeter, data center or CDN edge, it’s in the audio

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Cool Startup: Lacoon Mobile Security

Lacoon Mobile Security, the hot mobile security startup backed by Shlomo Kramer, was founded by Michael Shaulov, Ohad Bobrov, and Emanuel Avner. Lacoon is one the most innovative companies in mobile security space, protecting mobile users and enterprises from zero-day

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Cool Startup: Fortscale

Fortscale, based in Tel Aviv, was started by Idan Tendler and Dr. Yona Hollander. They have raised $5M in funding, and are adding staff at a rapid pace. Fortscale is a new type of cyber security company, that incorporates artificial

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