Top 100 Cybersecurity Startups to Look Out for in 2021

Cybersecurity

Analytics Insight has listed the top 100 cybersecurity start-ups of 2021 based on their solutions and performance

As the intervention of technology in our daily life has drastically spiked over the past few years, it has also shined a light on the need for cybersecurity products, services, and professionals. The increase in the necessity for cybersecurity solutions has paved the way for emerging start-ups. The situation has further intensified owing to the Covid-19 lockdown period and spiking remote working patterns.

According to a joint study by CBInsights and PwC, cybersecurity start-ups received over US$10.7 billion in funding in 2020. On the other hand, cyberattacks are becoming a major source of loss for companies working from over the internet. New start-ups and established vendors are attracting a record level of investment as all organizations look to thwart increasing complex, costly and unpredictable cyberattacks. A Cybersecurity Ventures report suggests that the overall cybercrime costs are expected to reach US$10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Although attack methodologies keep evolving with emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, etc, cybersecurity start-ups also embrace them to find an exit door. Analytics Insight has listed the top 100 cybersecurity start-ups of 2021 based on their product range and performance.

Top 100 cybersecurity startups in 2021

10 Dot

Headquarter: Johannesberg, South Africa

Founded: 2015

Website: https://www.10dot.com/

Sector: Information Technology

10Dot is a cyber-security management platform that focuses on creating and building technology that is adept in securing a network. The products by 10Dot act as gatekeepers that monitor network security elements like anti-virus, web proxy, audits, UTMs along the management of firewall rules and policies. The company’s invention of Lockbox is a hardened virtual instance that comes with segmented security.

AppSecure

Headquarter(s): Bangalore, Karnataka

Founded: 2015

Sector: Business

Website: https://www.appsecure.security/contact

AppSecure is a specialized cybersecurity company that provides end-to-end security solutions to keep consumer’s businesses safe and secure. AppSecure uses real-world hacking techniques to understand customers’ security posture, finding security vulnerability, and assisting their teams in fixing them. The company’s top hackers from Facebook, Uber, Twitter, etc check the compliance perspective of consumers like attackers and provide the futuristic solution that addresses the concern.

Axis Security

Headquarter: San Mateo, California

Founded: 2019

Website: https://www.axissecurity.com/

Sector: Healthcare, Information Technology

Axis Security, a cyber-security start-up, specializes in enabling organizations in swift delivery of tightly managed global access to employees, partners, and other stakeholders through zero-built cloud security platforms. Axis security believes in advanced applications of technology that secure access only to necessary resources. The company has successfully raised $32 million in Series B funding in a totality of $49 million over three rounds. It has also introduced the Axis Security Partner Program (ASPP) designed for VARs system integrators, MSSPs, OEM partners, and distributors.

Augmenta Cyber Security

Headquarter: Gaborone, South East, Botswana

Founded: 2017

Website: https://augcyba.co.za/

Sector: Information Technology, Software, SEM, Data Visualisation

Augmenta cybersecurity deems cybersecurity as an integral part of any business organization, irrespective of its size. It assesses cyber threats by giving reports on how gullible a business is to attack. Augmenta is value-driven that assists customers in cybersecurity solutions. The company’s services are namely, risk assessments, DDOS solutions, vendor risk management, and data loss prevention. Augmenta stands out by delivering solutions readily and deals with threats and attacks in real-time.

Axionus

Headquarter: New york

Founded: 2017

Website: https://www.axonius.com/

Sector: Blockchain, Information Technology

Axionus deals with the protection of assets from cyber threats and attacks. The company aims to provide their customers with a comprehensive and upgraded asset inventory, solutions to security gaps, and automate manual work often executed by the human workforce. The company believes that these services allow the employee of a business organization to invest themselves more in value-added work and effective strategizing than having to deal with works that can also be handled by technology. The company has observed that the task of managing assets is often discarded as tedious. Ironically, asset management happens to be one of the crucial management for any business organization. For this reason, primarily, the company addresses asset management as the “Toyota Camry” of an organization. The company has secured some prestigious accolades for its incredible service on asset management such as the CNBC upstart 100, Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star to name a few.

Balbix

Headquarter: San Francisco Bay Area, United States.

Founded: 2015

Website: https://www.balbix.com/

Sector: Computer, Network Security

Balbix, the cybersecurity startup, a converged platform that is known to enable organizations is automating their cybersecurity posture to taper the breach risks. The company aims to provide a comprehensive real-time perspective of breach risk along with significant insights and integrations. Doing so will enable organizations to assess their current cybersecurity posture so that actions are taken in real-time because criminals won’t wait. The company’s futuristic services and products strive to build a world where enterprise and business organizations become cyber-resilient.

BlackCloak

Headquarter: East Coast, Southern US

Founded: 2018

Website: https://blackcloak.io/

Sector: Cyber Security, Information Technology

BlackCloak is a well-known cybersecurity start-up that offers concierge cybersecurity. BlackCloak observes that cyber threats can also affect the personal lives of the employees of an organization. However, this issue remains to be underrated and under-discussed. BlackCloak helps to bridge this gap by not only protecting an organization as a whole but also protecting the individual lives of the employees functioning within it because in recent years, cybercriminals have extended their crimes to the lives of the executives by breaching into their personal devices. The company’s cutting-edge concierge cybersecurity platform conjuncts software and services to detect and prevent cyberattacks beyond the office premises.

Blackberry

Headquarter: Waterloo, Canada

Founded: 2016

Website: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en

Sector: Information Technology, Software

Blackberry, the reputed manufacturer and dealer of smartphones, has turned itself into a cybersecurity company. The company believes that security should not only be smart but it should also be intelligent. Blackberry, as a cybersecurity company, is known to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to etch out the most effective solutions to cyber threats. It pins down Unified Endpoint Security (UES) which is deeply rooted in AI and ML that enhanced visibility to an organization to gauge the prospective cyber threats and attacks.

Blu Bracket

Headquarter: San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast

Founded: 2019

Website: https://www.blubracket.com/

Sector: Software

BluBracket is well known as the leader in securing code for enterprises and companies. The company represents the industry’s first comprehensive security solutions for codes. According to BluBracket, code happens to be the most valuable and distributed and yet modern AI-driven tools and software fail to generate insight or control today’s enterprise demands. The company is run by a team of AI-skilled members that keenly understand the requisites of enterprises and thus, understanding the critical need for code security. The company has raised US$6.5 million seed round that was lead by Unusual Ventures.

Bitglass

Headquarter: Campbell, California, U.S.

Founded: 2013

Website: https://www.bitglass.com/bitglass-about

Sector: Information Technology, SaaS, Mobile, Software

Recognized as one of the best cyber-security start-ups, Bitglass specializes in delivering data and threat protection on interaction. Its services are aimed at all kinds of devices. CASB, a product of the company, is designed for a remote working ecosystem that has become the norm today. CASB is a total cloud security platform that provides on-device secure web gateways and zero-trust network access to security. The objective is to secure endpoint access across all devices in a network.

Cado Security

Headquarter: London, England, United Kingdom

Founded: 2020

Website: https://www.cadosecurity.com/

Sector: Information Technology ( IT)

Cado Security is a cloud-native digital forensics platform that operates for enterprises to make investigations and handle cyber incidents i.e. criminal activities, at cloud speed. It happens to be the first cloud-native and forensics and response platform. Recently, it has received $1.5 million in seed funding. The company strives to obliterate complexities from cloud that enables organizations to investigate and respond to cyber threats and attacks more effectively. The company also encourages organizations and businesses to adapt to a modern cloud environment.

Carbon Black

Headquarter: Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England

Founded: 2002

Website: http://www.carbonblack.com/

Sector: Homeland Security, physical security, cybersecurity

Carbon black is a cybersecurity start-up that specializes in providing a cloud-native endpoint and a workload protection platform that facilitates the prevention of cyberattacks. The company understands that modern cybersecurity demands behavioral analytics and cloud agility. This in turn allows an organization deep visibility into the modern attack landscape. The product, VMware Carbon Black Cloud is an analytics-driven product that analyses over one trillion security events daily. This product is trained to detect the abnormal behavioral pattern of criminals that makes defense easy.

Cato Network

Headquarter: Middle East

Founded: 2015

Website: http://www.catonetworks.com/

Sector: Information Technology, Software

Cato masters the convergence of networking and security in cloud. CATO highly aligns itself with Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) by Gartner to deliver an advanced and modern security architecture that obliterates high costs, risks, and complexities. Cato ensures that organizations can securely connect to any user from across the globe. Cato strives to craft an efficient and highly protective security posture without any effort from the IT teams. All the products by Cato are affordable and come with low-latency connectivity for offices. The products often outshine VPNs and MPLSs.

Cerby

Headquarter: San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast

Founded: 2020

Website: https://www.cerby.com/

Sector: Software

Cerby is defined as a stealth security company that offers help to secure teams and harness Shadow IT. The products and services of the company are constructed keeping IT users in mind. Cerby ensures that the clients and customers receive a glitch-free end-user experience and deal with the problem of Shadow IT by enabling the end-users to use applications of their own choice, securely. The company is backed with the funding of top investors of the last round led by Bowry Capital. The company has raised a fund of $3.5 million seed.

Checkr

Headquarter: San Fransisco, California

Founded: 2014

Website: https://checkr.com/

Sector: Information Technology

Checkr, the cyber-security startup, deals with AI-powered technologies to aid companies in conducting proper background checks. These background checks can lessen the chances of cyber threats and attacks and can help organizations to make real-time decisions. The fact that agencies and enterprises are constantly evolving makes them prone to both prosperity and danger. Checkr acknowledges this dichotomy to hiring and background check process efficient and effective so that organizations and businesses can run with more efficient candidates.

CMOR

Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario

Founded: 2017

Website: https://cmor.ai/

Sector: Information Technology & Services

CMOR provides AI-as-a-Service for cybersecurity solutions to protect its clients from targeted phishing and brand infringement via advanced artificial intelligence and content classifications. The company’s powerful natural language processing covers five different languages and facilitates users with reliable content classification on social media monitoring, web page contents, and brand and logo detection. CMOR’s parent company CMOR Group Corporation is a global leader in delivering powerful predictive analytics that helps businesses discover valuable insights and intelligence in their data while providing clear and detailed recommendations to reduce risk.

Confluera

Headquarter: Palo Alto, California, U.S.

Founded: 2018

Sector: Information Technology and Services

Website: https://www.confluera.com/

Confluera provides a real-time cyber-security infrastructure to stop and remediate cyber-threats with patented ‘Continuous Attack Graph’ across any length of time. It leverages machine comprehended threat detection with accurately tracked fraudulent activities to prevent any cyber-attacks without hampering any previous work. The main priority of Confluera is to provide relaxation to human security personnel with their work infrastructure. It easily deploys a unique solution with which companies efficiently detect and respond to real-time data breaches.

CrowdStrike

Headquarter: Sunnyvale, California, U.S.

Founded: 2011

Sector: Information Technology and Services, Network Security

Website: https://www.crowdstrike.com/

CrowdStrikeis the technology augmented with deep security expertise in the field of cyber-security by offering the only true remote remediation service. With the integration of 24*7 cloud-native Falcon platform with the customer’s devices, CrowdStrike provides better protection, performance, and value on eliminating on-premise infrastructure and consolidating the End-points agents to enhance in a simple manner. The company combines AI-based machine learning, behavioral analytics, and proactive threat hunting which are powered by cybersecurity’s biggest cloud analytics platform, Threat Graph.

Cryptoloc Technology Group

Headquarter(s): Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Founded: 2010

Sector: Information Technology and Services, Government services

Website: https://www.cryptoloc.com/

Cryptoloc Technology Group is a Brisbane-based cyber-security firm that was named by Forbes as one of “The 20 Best Cyber-security Start-ups to Watch in 2020”. It has successfully achieved a patent right in one of the world’s most secure encryption technologies which is a combination of three different encryption algorithms into one multilayer process deployed across five products— YDF, Vault, QA, S2C, and SecureShare. Cryptoloc provides the safest platform for several companies and customers to interact securely and store, send, sign, share as well as receive large-scale files. The patented technology ensures privacy where only the user can access the files with very specific persons.

CRFT

Headquarter(s): San Francisco, California, United States

Founded: 2019

Sector: Business

Website: https://crft.app/

CRFT is a no-code automation platform that enables teams of all sizes to ease the burden of repetitive and time-consuming tasks without custom code development or lengthy consulting engagement. The company uses cloud-native to take care of reliability monitoring, logging, and performance at scale. CRFT avails the ultimate connector to unlock missing capabilities of customer’s stack with seamless integration into popular security tools, cloud service, and enterprise applications. The company easily defines the complex automation scenarios that make the biggest impact on the consumer’s team productivity.

CTM360

Headquarter: Manama, The Kingdom of Bahrain

Founded: 2014

Sector: Information Technology and Services

Website: https://www.ctm360.com/

CTM360 is the fully managed data risk protection platform specializing in offensive defense which is a mentality to detect and solve cyber blind areas like deep and dark web outside the perimeter of any organization’s network. It provides a dependable and logical cyber-security framework to solve any challenge thrown at the company by the cyber-threats 24*7*365. It specializes in threat hunting and neutralizing cyber-space, threat intelligence, anti-phishing, brand protection, and many more for its clients.

Cyberint

Headquarter: Petah Tikva, Israel

Founded: 2010

Sector: Financial service, Retail & E-commerce, Media and Gaming, and Digital Enterprises

Website: https://cyberint.com/

Cyberint is a popular cyber-security start-up with managed services like threat intelligence monitoring, virtual humint operations, strategic cyber-operations, attack simulation, and cyber-security program assessment. The start-up believes in top-notch long-term and trusted partnerships to create cyber-resilience for a specific organization. With Targeted Managed Detection and Response solution, Cyberintallows its customers to safeguard brand, digital assets, and clients from the constant fear of cyber-attacks which have the potential of being unnoticed by the normal security system.

Cybeats Technologies

Headquarter(s): Toronto, Canada

Founded: 2016

Sector: IT and Services

Website: https://www.cybeats.com/

Cybeats is one of the leading cyber-security start-ups which delivers an integrated security platform to safeguard expensive connected devices. It follows a unique pattern to eliminate device downtime caused by cyber-attacks and offers manufacturers to develop and maintain protection in a cost-efficient approach efficiently. Cybeats discovers security vulnerabilities and abnormal behavior so that its security is incorporated into connected real-time trusted devices. It follows an inside-to-outside device-centric approach to cyber-security which complements traditional IT network perimeter security.

Cyberbit

Headquarter: Ra’nana, Israel

Founded: 2015

Sector: Corporate, Academic and Government service

Website: https://www.cyberbit.com/

Cyberbit is the first cyber-security start-up to develop a “Zero to Hero” cyber-skilling platform that ensures the professionals gain appropriate knowledge, skills, and experience. The Cyberbit Skills Development platform involves personalized learning paths aligned to a particular topic with a mix of cyber labs, commercial tool training such as Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, Checkpoint, Carbon Black, live-fire cyber range exercises aligned to NICE Framework, MITRE ATTACK, NIST. It contains the world’s largest catalog of on-demand simulated attacks like Ransomware, DDoS, SQL, Worms, and so on.

Cybereason

Headquarter: Boston, U.S.

Founded: 2012

Sector: Academic and Service

Website: https://www.cybereason.com/

Cybereason is a known cyber-security start-up due to its cyber defender action with future-ready attack protection from the End-point to the enterprises everywhere through an operation-centric approach. It has the wisdom to uncover and correlate multiple cyber-threats in various devices. It strives to earn trust and brand recognition by preparing organisations to outthink, outpace with unquestionable precisions.

CyberX

Headquarter: Waltham, U.S.

Founded: 2012

Sector: Banking and Financial service, Chemical and Pharmaceuticals, Enterprise IoT, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas, Retail, Transportation and Logistics and Water

Website: https://cyberx-labs.com/#

CyberX is the only IoT/OT cyber-security platform created by blue-team cyber-experts with professional defending critical infrastructures. It continues to deliver constant tracking and managements like asset management, risk, and vulnerable management, threat detection and response, SOC integration also centralized management. It shows the full network map of all company assets to display a transparent picture of all devices and their interior communication. CyberX ensures to add more capabilities and services, streamline workflows and governance across IT, IoT as well as ICS threat modeling, threat intelligence, and malware sandbox.

Cyble

Headquarter: Alpharetta, Georgia, U.S.

Founded: 2019

Sector: IT and Services

Website: https://cyble.io/

Cyble is an AI-powered cyber-threat intelligence start-up whose niche lies in gathering darkweb, deepweb and open-source intelligence. The primary vision is to democratize digital risk protection through dark web monitoring, cyber-crime intelligence, attack surface management, public-infrastructure monitoring, code leakage detection, brand reputation monitoring, fraud intelligence and incident response. The secondary vision is to build a scalable, robust and hi-tech integration with human intelligence by the security researcher network. It seeks for digital threats in email accounts and social media platforms 24*7*365 with extensive data sets.

Cycode

Headquarter: Tel Aviv

Founded: 2019

Sector: IT and Services

Website: https://cycode.com/

Cycode is the first source code control, detection, and response start-up in the industry which addresses the security gap and tends to set the industry standard in source code protection. It utilizes the patent-pending Source Path Intelligence Engine to generate a fast and seamless delivery of visibility into an organization’s source code inventory. It helps to connect the source code management system and code repositories, cataloging source code inventory and the source code paths among users, devices, and repositories without affecting the developer’s productivity.

Cymulate

Headquarter: RishonLeZion, Israel

Founded: 2016

Sector: IT and Service

Website: https://cymulate.com/

Cymulate is a breach and attack simulation start-up that protects the organization from cyber-attacks and zero-day vulnerabilities by examining the landscape with in-depth visibility. The security team is focused on security and military intelligence practices. Here the organizations receive the technical and executive reports within a few minutes with continuous security validations for better improvement.

Dark Trace

Headquarter: Cambridge, UK

Founded: 2013

Sector: Manufacturing and Supply, Education, Energy and Utilities, Government and Defense, Transportation, Legal and HR, Media, and Entertainment, Non-profit services

Website: https://www.darktrace.com/

Darktrace is the first company to apply Artificial Intelligence to the challenge of cyber-security where it transformed the ability to defend the crucial assets against cyber-threats. The company launched the first-ever Autonomous Response technology, DarktraceAntigena which allowed the immune system to react to real-time cyber-attacks by protecting the digital environment and industrial control systems with firewalls and SIEMs or SOARs.

Data Theorem

Headquarter: Palo Alto, U.S.

Founded: 2013

Sector: IT and Services, Banking services

Website: https://www.datatheorem.com/

Data Theorem is one of the leading providers of the modern application for cyber-security with a mission to analyze and protect any application at any time and any place. It follows its own Data Theorem Analyser Engine to scan APIs for searching defective areas with privacy gaps. It has built the top open-source SDK known as TrustKit. The products help in building secured applications to maximize data security with brand protection. The main focus is on mobile secure, API secure, web secure and cloud secure.

DataFleets

Headquarter: Palo Alto, U.S.

Founded: 2018

Sector: Computer software

Website: https://www.datafleets.com/

DataFleets is a cyber-security start-up that assists organizations in overcoming the constant struggle between data privacy and cyber-threats. It provides services with a ‘data fleet’ which allows data scientists and developers to create analytics, ML Models with highly sensitive data. It is a trusted platform with transformations in engineering, entity resolution, SQL, and ML. It is also composed of Python which has TensorFlow, Keras, and Spark as efficient tools.

Dathena Science

Headquarter: New York, U.S.

Founded: 2016

Sector: Financial, Healthcare and Military defense

Website: https://www.dathena.io/

Dathena is the universal layer of cyber-security which powers data protection with an agile and flexible solution against cyber-threats. It uses AI-based power to deliver petabyte based solutions accurately and efficiently. It tends to bring a new paradigm in the world of ever-growing data to identify, classify and control sensitive data by reducing potential risks to enhance the framework of the organization.

Dathena

Headquarter(s): United States

Founded: 2016

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://www.dathena.io/

Dathena offers AI-powered data security and privacy solutions to organizations. Through petabyte-scale solutions that provide faster, efficient, and accurate security measures, Dathena strengthens the data protection frameworks of companies. Dathena has employed the world’s top data scientists and information risk experts to enable a secure digital infrastructure. Dathena’s AI technology provides comprehensible data insights that are based on clear logical rules and meet AI explainability regulatory requirements. The company also ensures that the outcomes are ethical and unbiased. Dathena’s AI platform is cost-effective, data-driven, and trustable. Oracle, Nvidia, HP, Microsoft, and Dell are some of their technology partners.

DefenseStorm

Headquarter(s): United States

Founded: 2014

Sector: Computer and Network Security

Website: https://www.defensestorm.com/

DefenseStorm provides unique cybersecurity solutions and cyber compliance to banking and financial institutions. The company provides real-time cybersecurity through a one of its kind co-managed, cloud-based, and compliance-automated solution. DefenseStorm ensures that these institutions have an efficient and informed security team and are compliant with various company policies, industrial regulations, including FFIEC-CAT and NCUA’s ACET. Canvas Credit Union, Citizens National Bank of Texas, Live Oak Bank, and Seattle Bank are some of its potential customers. DefenseStorm is committed to making financial institutions like banks and credit unions threat-ready team-smart, and Board-accountable in a very short period.

Dragos

Headquarter(s): United States

Founded: 2013

Sector: Computer and Network Security, Industrial Cybersecurity

Website: https://www.dragos.com/

Dragos is an Industrial Cybersecurity expert and the experts trusted by the US Government, ally nations, and global firms founded it. Dragos has investigated and responded to several ICS cyberattacks, one of which was in 2015, when Dragos investigated the cyberattack on the Ukraine power grid. Dragos is committed to protecting the world’s most critical infrastructures and has a successful track record of protecting 6 out of the 10 largest Oil and Gas companies in the US and EMEA. Dragos is recognized and hailed as the most experienced ICS/OT cybersecurity team in the industry. Crowdstrike, McAfee, Deloitte, and Emerson are some of the company’s strong partners.

Egress

Headquarter(s): United Kingdom

Founded: 2007

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://www.egress.com/

Egress Software Technologies has developed the world’s only Human Layer Security platform to stop human-activated data breaches and improve the internal sharing of confidential data between the employees. Egress uses patented contextual machine learning and is funded by FTV Capital and AlbionVC. Egress works towards solving the threat from the inside of an organization, especially by people when they end up opening misdirected e-mails. Data might be at risk if companies have careless employees and malicious exfiltration. Egress provides human Layer Security by preventing human errors and detecting malicious and reckless behavior.

Enso Security

Headquarter(s): California

Founded: 2020

Sector: Computer and Network Security

Website: https://www.enso.security/

Enso Security enables security teams to build application security programs with better visibility and scalability. Its investors include YL Ventures and JumpCapital. Enso’s Application Security Posture Management platform ensures better coordination and collaboration between the tools, people, and processes of application development. Their application security program is automated and data-driven, allowing customers to reduce the risks in development. It also enables companies to measure the effectiveness of application security teams, security tools, developers, and contractors. Enso simplifies the process of detecting security risks from the application portfolio and promises seamless integration of different tools like GreyLogs, GitLab, Jenkins, Splunk, Amazon ELB, etc.

eSentire

Headquarter(s): Ontario

Founded: 2001

Sector: Computer and Network Security

Website: https://www.esentire.com/

eSentire promises to stop breaches and contain threats within 20 minutes by leveraging their Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Atlas XDR Cloud Technology. The company provides customized security solutions with its MDR platform that offers 360-degree visibility, 24/7 rapid response, end-to-end detection, and complete threat containment. Recently eSentire collaborated with leading tech provider UiPath to bring end-to-end hyper automation to cybersecurity. eSentire has efficient Security Operation Centres that work round the clock to detect threats before it becomes an issue.

Ethyca

Headquarter(s): New York

Founded: 2018

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://ethyca.com/

Ethyca works with a unique approach towards user data privacy through technology solutions that can yield maximum efficiency. Ethyca is committed to a transparent, democratic, and ethical privacy management system that automates the important compliance tasks and eliminates risks. Its features include real-time data mapping, automated subject requests, consent management, subject erasure handling, and more. It develops automated data privacy tools and infrastructures that enable developers to build compliance solutions to the global privacy regulations. In a mission to increase trust in data-driven businesses, Ethyca does not forget the importance of user data privacy.

Evervault

Headquarter(s): Dublin

Founded: 2018

Sector: Internet, Information Technology, Developer Tools, Security

Website: https://evervault.com/

Evervault works towards attaining a goal of zero data breaches by removing the crypto lag and encrypting the web and the data. Evervault is a tech company that develops encryption engines and makes it easier to encrypt and process sensitive data. The company ensures that hackers and even Evervault itself other than the company cannot access the encrypted data. It creates a safe environment for data flow and promises a low latency service with automatic scaling. By not touching the plaintext data, Evervault provides lesser compliance risk and better security features.

Exploit Hunters India

Headquarter: Bhopal, India

Founded: 2016

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexploithunters%2Ecom&urlhash=qs6y&trk=about_website

Sector: Information Technology

Exploit Hunters India, formerly known as Aristi Labs is a cybersecurity startup that specializes in offering security solutions to protect data and intellectual property in business organizations. Securign, best defined as the core product of the company, provides security information. The product also works as a event management platform (SIEM) to aid businesses to detect threats and attacks.

Galvanize

Headquarter: Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada

Founded: 2019

Website: https://www.wegalvanize.com/rebrand/

Sector: Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Banking, Healthcare

Galvanize, former ACL services, has amalgamated with Rsam to become Galvanise which is now a software company that is privately owned. The company specializes in building security, compliance, audit software, and risk management. The company is known for its giant step taken towards the GRC industry. the galvanization of ACL’s analyst-recognized security management and Rsam’s dynamic flexibility and universal IT system integration, deliver incredibly integrated governance solutions. These solutions are the ones that generate meaningful insights from data that trigger innovative strategies that transform organizations and enterprises for good.

Fraud Cracker

Headquarter(s): South Africa

Founded: Not specified

Sector: Multiple sectors

Website: https://www.fraudcracker.com/

Fraud Cracker offers to identify and prevent business fraud through digital solutions. They do this by creating a specialized website for the particular customer, hosted independently by Fraud Cracker and branded with the customer’s company name. The service enables employees to report fraud and mention any fraudulent activity by being anonymous on this website. Fraud cracker acts as an intermediary for the smooth conversation between the company authorities and employees. It uses anonymous chat technology and secret employee incentives to flag frauds and corruption happening in a company. Fraud Cracker allows a system where the reporter o the fraud is not victimized and this affordable solution aids companies in legal compliance.

HackerOne

Headquarter(s): United States

Founded: 2012

Sector: Computer and Network Security

Website: https://www.hackerone.com/

Intending to make the internet a safe space, HackerOne is a group of hackers and security professionals working with hacker-powered security. They enable companies to secure their attack surfaces and ensure compliance. With the HackerOne platform, organizations can find and fix the security vulnerabilities before an attack and continuously check the app developments and secure applications. The company works with different organizations spanning various industries like financial services, retail and eCommerce, Government sectors, and more. Lufthansa, Uber, Spotify, Goldman Sachs, WordPress, Twitter, HBO, and the US Department of Defence are some of HackerOne’s customers.

Haltdos

Headquarter(s): Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Founded: 2015

Sector: Business

Website: https://www.haltdos.com

Haldos is an IT cybersecurity company that provides web application firewall and DDoS protection to online businesses. An offspring of AKS Information Technology Service Pvt. Ltd, Haldos is the world’s first integrated WAF & DDoS mitigation solution that detects, mitigates, and monitors network application on a continuous basis to protect from DDoS attacks. The company envisions to simplify security so businesses can focus on changing the world.

Havoc Shield

Headquarter(s): United States

Founded: 2019

Sector: Computer and Network Security, Information and Technology

Website: https://havocshield.com/

Havoc shield provides best-in-class business cybersecurity solutions and remote cybersecurity policies. Some of their security features are rapid threat test, threat watch, companywide dashboards, InfoSec policy generator, compliance trail, lookalike domain scan, and live incident help. Havoc shield offers assistance in discussing unique enterprise-grade SLAs to enable companies to comply with contractual obligations if any. The company also offers unique and customized cybersecurity solutions and compliance according to the issues faced.

Herjavec Group

Headquarter(s): Ontario

Founded: 2003

Sector: Computer and Network Security, Information Technology

Website: https://www.herjavecgroup.com/

Herjavec Group provides different cybersecurity services to enterprise organizations and supports the world’s most complex infrastructures. Their services include security assessment and testing, advisory survivors, managed services, PCI compliance, technology architecture and implementation, incident response, and more. Herjavec Group is a best-certified partner with several leading technology providers like McAfee, Crowdstrike, Palo Alto Networks, etc. The company provides complete security and network acceleration services and has a global presence across the US, UK, and Canada.

Illumio

Headquarter(s): United States

Founded: 2013

Sector: Computer Software, Cloud Security

Website: https://www.illumio.com/

Illumio provides a security-segmentation platform that prevents security breaches over data center endpoints, cloud, virtual machines, and containers. The company identified the need for ensuring segmentation from the endpoints to the data centers, after the potential rise of hybrid and active data centers. The Illumio Core offers complete visibility into the complex application environment through a map and enables users to create East-West segmentation policies. Illumio edge prevents lateral movements of ransomware across the endpoints. Illumio promises easier, faster, and safer segmentation that can be controlled round the clock. Salesforce, Yamaha, Cathay Pacific, and BMC are some of their customers.

Immuta

Headquarter(s): Boston, United States

Founded: 2014

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://www.immuta.com/

Immuta allows businesses from diverse industries to harness the capabilities of data without losing data privacy and security. By enabling DataOps teams and Data Engineers to automate data governance, the startup offers maximum security, secure data access, and privacy protection for the cloud-based analytics infrastructures. Their core capabilities include sensitive data discovery, active data catalog, data access control, dynamic data masking, and auditing and reporting, Immuta provides a scalable implementation of security strategies in the cloud, on-premise, and hybrid infrastructures with easy-to-integrate architectures. Immuta successfully works with different data analytics platformsaidsIntending to such as Databricks, Microsoft Azure, Presto, and more.

Isovalent

Headquarter(s): California

Founded: 2017

Sector: Computer and Network Security

Website: https://isovalent.com/

Isovalent builds eBPF, delivers advanced Kubernetes and cloud-based networking and security capabilities. The company offers enterprise-class eBPF-powered networking, security, and observability. It includes Cilium Open Source and Cilum Enterprise, which provides scalable and secure connectivity, security compliance and forensics, Application team troubleshooting and policy workflows. Their customers include Capital One, Adobe, Datadog, and Wildlife Studios. Isovalent ensures that enterprises that use distributed infrastructures like Kubernetes are able to secure and monitor their networks.

JupiterOne

Headquarter(s): North Carolina

Founded: 2018

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://jupiterone.com/

JupiterOne is the first software cloud-native security and compliance platform. It is built on a graph data model that simplifies security, automates it, and centralized visibility. JupiterOne secures digital operations by integrating data from different sources and ingesting it across the digital infrastructure. The platform offers maximum flexibility and extensibility and embraces data-driven security. The platform easily integrates with the existing technologies and enterprise infrastructures and has customizable solutions. AWS, JumpCloud, SentinelOne, and Carbon Black are some of its partners and many leaders like Reddit and Databricks trust the company.

Keyless

Headquarter(s): London

Founded: 2019

Sector: Information Technology and Services

Website: https://www.keyless.io/

Keyless is a deep-tech cybersecurity company that provides a zero-knowledge biometric authentication solution. The company aims to achieve a digital space that can be easily accessed without having to compromise sensitive information and personal details. The solution enables companies to authenticate their users by leveraging distributed nodes in a blink. Keyless uses a unique cryptographic approach to deal with the security concerns of storing and using biometric data. This allows these companies to secure biometric data in an encrypted method on different servers. This method gradually reduces the compliance costs and ensures a trustable environment between the company, its employees, and users.

KnowBe4

Headquarter(s): Florida

Founded: 2010

Sector: Computer and Network Security

Website: https://www.knowbe4.com/

KnowBe4 is recognized as the world’s first and largest New-school security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. A user-friendly, intuitive platform effectively aids in managing the problem of social engineering. KnowBe4 platform can be deployed faster by businesses of all sizes and is easy to use. KnowBe4 was named as a leader in The Forrester Wave report, and ranked as a top platform for security awareness training in the quarter, for the 5th time straight by G2 Grid Report. The Automated Security Awareness Program allows companies to build fully mature and customized programs. The company believes that the human side of cybersecurity is always neglected and thus it values a strong human firewall and also stands in support of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Kratikal

Headquarter(s): Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Founded: 2013

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://www.kratikal.com/

Kratikal is a leading cybersecurity firm that provides cutting-edge security solutions such as cyber-attack simulation and awareness tools, email authentication and anti-spoofing solution; anti-phishing, fraud monitoring & take-down solution; phishing incident response, Risk detection & threat analysis, and code risk review. The company is currently delivering cybersecurity solutions to 120+ global clients belonging to different sectors ranging from E-commerce, Fintech, BFSI, NBFC, Telecom, Consumer Internet, Cloud Service Platforms, Manufacturing, and Healthcare among others.

Ledger

Headquarter(s): Paris, France

Founded: 2014

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://www.ledger.com/

Ledger is a leader in security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. The company aims at securing the new disruptive class of crypto assets: Financial assets like cryptocurrencies or Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), Data assets like sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices or a machine to machine, and Digital identities like second-factor authentication or passwordless login.

Lightspin

Headquarter(s): Tel Aviv, IL

Founded: 2020

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://www.lightspin.io/

Lightspin’s cloud security framework safeguards cloud and Kubernetes applications during the development cycle, while also making cloud security easier for security and DevOps teams. Lightspin empowers cloud and security teams to reduce threats and optimize efficiency by proactively and automatically identifying all security risks, intelligently prioritizing the most important problems, and quickly fixing them from build to runtime, using patent-pending advanced graph-based technology.

LogRhythm

Headquarter(s): Boulder, Colorado, United States

Founded: 2003

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://logrhythm.com/

LogRhythm is a global pioneer in NextGen SIEM, enabling organizations on six continents to effectively reduce risk by identifying, reacting to, and neutralizing harmful cyber threats quickly. In a single end-to-end solution, the LogRhythm platform integrates user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), network traffic and behavior analytics (NTBA), and security automation and orchestration (SAO). LogRhythm’s Threat Lifecycle Management (TLM) framework provides as the base for the AI-enabled Security Operations Center (SOC), assisting customers measurably protect their cloud, physical and virtual infrastructures for both IT and OT environments. The LogRhythm platform, which has been built for security professionals by security professionals, has earned numerous awards, including being named a Leader in Gartner’s SIEM Magic Quadrant.

Lookout

Headquarter(s): San Francisco, California, United States

Founded: 2007

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://www.lookout.com/

Lookout is the global leader in providing an integrated endpoint to cloud security. The company secures data for the world’s leading companies and ensures that they comply with regulations using a cloud-delivered platform while protecting the privacy of their team who now operate from anywhere. Millions of people around the world depend on Lookout to secure their digital identities and mobile devices.

Safe Security (formerly Lucideus)

Headquarter(s): California, USA

Founded: 2012

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://www.safe.security/

Safe Security is a pioneer in the “Cybersecurity and Digital Business Risk Quantification” (CRQ) space. It assists companies to evaluate and diminish enterprise-wide cyber risk in real-time using its ML Enabled API-First SAFE Platform by aggregating automated signals across people, process, and technology, both for 1st & 3rd Party to dynamically predict the breach likelihood (SAFE Score) & $$ Value at Risk of an organization.

Malware Patrol

Headquarter(s): Saint Petersburg, FL

Founded: 2005

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://www.malwarepatrol.net/

Malware Patrol offers intelligent threat data on cyber attacks. Since 2005, the company has been collecting IOCs. In more than 175 countries, businesses and members of the community use its historically rich data to secure networks, respond to incidents, conduct threat analysis, and threat hunting. Malware Patrol’s machine-readable feeds are available in predefined and customized formats, compatible with the most common security systems, like MISP, Minemeld, Carbon Black, ClamAV, Cisco ASA FirePower, CSV, JSON, pfSense, Postfix MTA, Snort, SpamAssassin, Squid Web Proxy.

OneTrust

Headquarter(s): Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Founded: 2016

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://www.onetrust.com/

OneTrust is the #1 fastest-growing organization on Inc. 500 and the category-defining enterprise platform to operationalize trust. More than 9,000 customers, along with half of the Fortune 500, leverage OneTrust to make trust a competitive differentiator, applying central agile workflows across privacy, security, data governance, GRC, third-party risk, ethics and compliance, and ESG programs.

Onfido

Headquarter(s): London, United Kingdom

Founded: 2012

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://onfido.com/

Onfido is the new identity standard for the internet. Its AI-based technology evaluates whether a user’s government-issued ID is authentic or false, and then compares it against their facial biometrics. That’s how the company provides organizations like Revolut, bunq, and Bitstamp the guarantee they need to onboard customers remotely and securely.

Orca Security

Headquarter(s): Los Angeles, California

Founded: 2019

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://orca.security/

Orca Security, a pioneer in cloud security innovation, offers cloud-wide, workload-deep security and compliance for AWS, Azure, and GCP without the coverage limitations, alert fatigue, and operational costs of agents. Unlike competitive tools that function in silos, Orca approaches the cloud as an interconnected web of assets, valuing risk based on the severity of the underlying security problem as well as the context of the environment, such as accessibility and potential business harm. This eliminates thousands of useless security alerts, leaving only the most important handful to deal with, along with a clear road to resolution.

Packetlabs Ltd.

Headquarter(s): Mississauga, Ontario

Founded: 2011

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://www.packetlabs.net/

Packetlabs is an IT consulting firm that specializes in penetration testing. Infrastructure penetration testing, web & mobile application testing, social engineering, red team exercises, source-code reviews, and exploit development are among the services it provides. Government, technology, media, retail, healthcare, and financial institutions are among the company’s clients.

Perimeter 81

Headquarter(s): Tel Aviv, Israel

Founded: 2018

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: http://www.perimeter81.com/

Perimeter 81 is a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) service that makes network security easier for the modern and distributed workforce. Its award-winning, user-centric SaaS solution includes the Zero Trust and Software-Defined Perimeter models and provides greater network visibility, smooth onboarding, and automatic integration with major cloud providers. Whether employees are operating in or out of the workplace, the organization maintains unified network security. It provides a wide variety of organizations, from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations, and has formed partnerships with the world’s top integrators, managed service providers, and channel resellers.

Ping Identity

Headquarter(s): Denver, Colorado, United States

Founded: 2001

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://www.pingidentity.com/

Ping Identity builds identity security for the global enterprise. It assists enterprises to gain Zero Trust identity-defined security and more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent IdentityTM platform offers customers, employees, and partners with access to cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also handling identity and profile data at scale. Over half of the Fortune 100 chooses the company for its identity expertise, open standards leadership, and partnership with companies including Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Ping Identity offers flexible options to extend hybrid IT environments and boost digital business initiatives with multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, access management, intelligent API security, directory, and data governance capabilities.

Prophaze

Headquarter(s): Gurugram, Haryana

Founded: 2019

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://prophaze.com/

Prophaze allows companies and SaaS providers to upgrade their web application cybersecurity and lower costs through AI automation. Its mission is to level the playing field for enterprise security teams with AI WAF automation. Prophaze begins with the other organizations’ security targets to ensure that its products offer the most value in the shortest amount of time.

Randori

Headquarter(s): Waltham, Massachusetts

Founded: 2018

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: http://www.randori.com/

Randori’s automated attack platform, developed by some of the greatest brains in offensive security, imitates today’s adversaries, enabling defenders to constantly evaluate their real-world security. It provides defenders the ability to prove to themselves and management that their company’s most important assets are protected.

Red Canary

Headquarter(s): Denver, Colorado

Founded: 2013

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://redcanary.com/

Red Canary was created with the aim of improving security. It protects hundreds of organizations around the world, ranging from global Fortune 100s to 100-endpoint organizations. The company’s cloud-based service evens the playing field for companies of all sizes by enabling every defender to win against constantly evolving adversaries.

Red Sift

Headquarter(s): London, England

Founded: 2015

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://redsift.com/

Red Sift is a data-driven cybersecurity firm that incorporates machine learning to assist businesses of all sizes and industries with day-to-day security issues. It provides a dashboard of tools that evaluate and synthesize data from core business processes like email to assist users in better managing their online security. The company’s goal is to make cybersecurity technology more accessible to all.

Safe Base

Headquarter(s): San Francisco, California

Founded: 2020

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://safebase.io/

SafeBase is the single source of truth for your security program. You can close deals faster with a Security Status Page that quickens the vendor assessment process for its customers. The company closes the gap between your security and sales teams to help close deals faster.

Satori Cyber

Headquarters: Tel-Aviv

Founded: 2019

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://satoricyber.com/

Founded by former Imperva senior executives Eldad Chai, CEO, and Yoav Cohen, CTO, Satori’s mission is to help organizations maximize their data-driven competitive advantage by removing barriers to broad data access and usage while ensuring security, privacy, and compliance. The Satori Secure Data Access Cloud is the first solution on the market to offer continuous visibility and granular control for data flows across all cloud and hybrid data stores.

Seconaize

Headquarters: Bengaluru, India

Founded: 2017

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: http://www.seconize.co

Seconize enables enterprises to manage their cyber risks through its continuous predictive risk intelligence technology. Seconize DeRisk Center is an automated and continuous IT risk and compliance management SaaS product that proactively identifies weak points in the enterprise IT infrastructure, prioritizes the risks based on the impact so that optimal investments can be made to minimize exposure. It enables, executives to know their organizational risk profile, CISO to have real-time visibility across the infrastructure, and the IT teams to know the root cause and its remediation. Seconize empowers enterprises to proactively manage their cyber risks, prioritize remediations, optimize security spending and ensure compliance.

Securden

Headquarters: Newark

Founded: 2018

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://www.securden.com

Securden is a leading provider of privileged access governance solutions that uniquely combine the key security principles of zero-trust architecture, least privilege enforcement, and continuous risk assessment to prevent cyberattacks, malware propagation, and insider exploitation. With a refreshingly new approach, Securden offers complete control over privileged access, visibility without barriers, and superior access governance across cloud, physical, virtual environments. Designed for security and scalability with simplicity in mind, Securden products (Password Vault for Enterprises, Privileged Account Manager, and Endpoint Privilege Management and Application Control) are trusted by organizations of all types and sizes, including large banking and financial institutions, government agencies, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, IT service providers, MSPs, and manufacturing companies across the globe.

SecureStack

Headquarters: Queensland

Founded: 2017

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://securestack.com

The SecureStack platform lets companies build secure infrastructure anywhere with its build once, deploy anywhere orchestration. Everything you build and manage with SecureStack will be hardened and secure out of the box. The company’s intelligent automation manages security controls across the distributed infrastructure using rules and profiles you create. While your cloud instances create great security data, with SecureStack, you can get access to the data and insights delivered effortlessly. Logging and centralizing of that data are handled for you by the company.

SECURITI.ai

Headquarters: San Jose

Founded: 2018

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://securiti.ai

In a world where data and cloud are giving rise to new opportunities and privacy risks, Securiti aims at enabling enterprises to safely harness the incredible power of data and the cloud by controlling the complex security, compliance, and privacy risks. Securiti was founded by a seasoned team that has successfully built market-leading enterprise security and compliance solutions at Symantec, Blue Coat, and Elastica. The team led Symantec and Blue Coat’s cloud security business and pioneered the CASB market with an industry-leading solution that was consistently rated #1 by Forrester Wave and recognized as a Gartner MQ Leader each year. Thousands of enterprise customers were kept safe by these solutions.

SecurityScorecard

Headquarters: New York

Founded: 2013

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://securityscorecard.com

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses – providing a true 360-degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.

SentinelOne

Headquarters: California

Founded: 2013

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: http://www.sentinelone.com

SentinelOne is a pioneer in delivering autonomous security for the endpoint, data center, and cloud environments to help organizations secure their assets with speed and simplicity. SentinelOne unifies prevention, detection, response, remediation, and forensics in a single platform powered by artificial intelligence. With SentinelOne, organizations can detect malicious behavior across multiple vectors, rapidly eliminate threats with a fully automated integrated response, and adapt their defenses against the most advanced cyberattacks. SentinelOne has offices in Mountain View, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. The company is recognized by Gartner as a Visionary for Endpoint Protection and has enterprise customers in North America, Europe, and Japan.

Sequretek

Headquarters: New Jersey

Founded: 2013

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: http://sequretek.com

Sequretek is an India headquartered cyber-security firm with customers across North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and India. It is amongst the very few companies that have end-to-end cyber-security offerings in the areas of Endpoint Security, Identity Access Governance, Threat Intelligence, Security Monitoring, and Security Management. Sequretek has been recognized as the “Security Product Company of Year“ by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and was also announced as a winner at India’s Biggest “AI Challenge” at RAISE 2020, an initiative by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, MyGov.in and Digital India Corporation. Sequretek has been successful in securing the IT assets of over 100 clients across Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Services, Retail, and Logistics sectors.

Shape Security

Headquarters: California

Founded: 2011

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://shapesecurity.com

The world’s leading banks, airlines, retailers, hotel chains, and federal agencies rely on Shape as their primary line of defense against sophisticated cybercrime. The Shape technology platform, covered by 50+ patents, stops automated fraud and other attacks on web and mobile applications, including credential stuffing, account takeover, scraping, and unauthorized aggregation. Shape is one of the largest processors of login traffic in the world and protects more than 1.3 billion user accounts. Shape prevented more than $1 billion in fraud losses last year. Shape was recognized in Fortune Magazine as one of the leading companies in artificial intelligence in 2018 and listed in CNBC’s top 50 most disruptive companies in the world.

Smart Protection

Headquarters: Madrid

Founded: 2015

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: http://www.smartprotection.com

Smart Protection protects brands against online counterfeits. The company is in constant search of the brightest talent to form the best engineering team and boost its technological platform with the latest advancements in AI. Smart Protection’s technology identifies and removes illegal copies and improper usages of brands. With specialization in brand protection and content protection, Smart Protection’s platform increases the efficiency to 95% in the removal of illegal counterfeits from identified copies. The company’s team has knowledge about marketplaces and social media, as well as Google’s TCRP Program (Trusted Copyright Removal Program), which gives them the ability to delist URLs at the highest speed and efficiency.

SpiderSilk

Headquarters: Dubai

Founded: 2019

Sector: Information Technology & Services

Website: https://www.spidersilk.com

SpiderSilk is a Dubai-based cybersecurity firm, specializing in simulating the most advanced cyber offenses on your technology so you can build your best security defenses. Its proprietary machine-driven technology dramatically enhances the capabilities of our human ethical hackers, thereby leveraging both the power of machines with the creativity of humans. The company focuses on finding security exploits/vulnerabilities in applications residing on public and/or internal infrastructures. spiderSilk’s methodologies and “super-hackers” allow it to achieve simulations with the highest impact, and as a result, the company has uncovered threats that would have impacted over 120 million human beings in aggregate. Its enterprise security testing offerings are also backed by robust Advisory Services that are designed to provide visibility into areas of needed improvement within an organization, as well as to highlight areas where best security practices can be integrated.

Stairwell

Headquarters: California

Founded: 2019

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: https://www.stairwell.com

Stairwell Inc embodies the best attributes of hacker culture without sacrificing empathy, respect, and passion. Stairwell believes in forging a future in which any security team, regardless of size, sophistication, or resources, can be empowered to defend against every attacker. The team behind Stairwell, including security leaders and engineers from Google and Microsoft, is singularly focused on making that future a reality.

Strikeready

Headquarters: California

Founded: 2019

Sector: Computer Software

Website: https://strikeready.co

StrikeReady is committed to focusing on the most foundational element in cybersecurity, the people with a simple goal to empower the defenders. The product brings together contextual awareness, automation, knowledge, and collaboration to modernize security operations and integrates with all the leading endpoint, network and cloud, and intelligence technologies. The company has built an extremely powerful SaaS-based platform that engages, supports, and informs the defender with reasoning, knowledge, and automation.

Symantec

Headquarters: California

Founded: 1982

Sector: Computer Software

Website: http://www.broadcom.com

Symantec Corp. is now NortonLifeLock Inc, a standalone company dedicated to consumer cyber safety. The company provides three solutions, Secure Acess Service Edge (SASE) which is a data-centric SASE approach that reduces complexity, improves security, and simplifies network and security services, Extended Detection and Response (XDR) which is cross-control-point visibility, correlated threat intelligence, and automated response, and Zero Trust Security which refers to a data-centric security architecture centered on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust anything or anyone.

Synack

Headquarters: California

Founded: 2013

Sector: Computer & Network Security

Website: http://www.synack.com

Synack, the most trusted crowdsourced security testing platform, delivers smarter penetration testing for dynamic attack surfaces on a continuous cadence. The company’s hacker-powered, AI-enabled pen test provides access to the best worldwide talent, scalable and smart technology, and insights that secure the nation’s critical infrastructure and leading brands and businesses.

TAC Security

Headquarter(s): San Francisco, California, United States

Founded: 2013

Sector: IT infrastructure, Data and digital assets of public, Government

Website: https://tacsecurity.com/

TAC Security is a global leader in vulnerability management that protects Fortune 500 companies, large enterprises, and government organizations around the world. While companies’ security teams struggle to detect the security threat and how to allocate scarce resources to reduce risk most efficiently, TAC Security provides them with insightful cyber risk scores. By using artificial intelligence and user-friendly analytics, the company measures prioritize and mitigates vulnerabilities across the entire IT stack.

Threatsys Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Headquarter(s): Odisha, India

Founded: 2019

Sector: MSME, Business, Government

Website: https://threatsys.com.au/index.html

Threatsys Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a leading and trusted cybersecurity consulting partner that specializes in securing the IT infrastructure and assets of some of the leading enterprises globally. The company helps to simplify cybersecurity by providing everything customers need to define strategy, identify threats, deploy the right technology, and ensure operational readiness to protect their business. Threatsys’s team connects with clients directly and provides them with the first-hand experience of relieving from cyber threats by delivering solutions that help maximize and communicate the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs.

Thycotic

Headquarter(s): Washington, United States

Founded: 1996

Sector: Healthcare, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Government, Education

Website: https://thycotic.com/

Thycotic prevents companies from cyberattacks using innovative technologies that secure privileged accounts across the modern enterprise. Thycotic secures their passwords, protects endpoints, and controls application access. The company’s security tools empower over 10,000 organizations, from small businesses to the Fortune 100 by limiting privilege account risk, implementing least privilege policies, controlling applications, and demonstrating compliance. Thycotic’s PAM solution provides the greatest impact on the shortest amount of time. It reduces complexity and minimizes costs so the consumers can gain immediate value.

Ubiq Security

Headquarter(s): San Diego, California, United States

Founded: 2019

Sector: Public

Website: https://www.ubiqsecurity.com/

Ubiq Security is a technology company that simplifies the complex and messy concept of encryption through a set of APIs, which are simple enough for any developer to use, yet, scalable and extensible enough to encrypt data effortlessly across diverse applications and programming languages, cloud environments, and storage types. The company envisions enabling developers to easily and quickly integrate encryption directly into their application, without requiring any prior encryption knowledge or expertise.

Unit21

Headquarter(s): San Francisco, California, United States

Founded: 2018

Sector: Banking, Payments, Brokerages

Website: https://www.unit21.ai/

Unit21 is a platform that provides no-code tools and services for risk and compliance teams. The company helps customers empower their teams to make data-driven decisions with its no-code RegTech platform. Unit21 protects businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboards for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries. With the help of security experts who have defended large systems against hackers, the company builds stable state-of-the-art security practices. In 2020, Unite21 has raised US$13 million in funding, which the company said will be used to focus on management teams, bolster sales and marketing efforts, and launch in new industries.

vArmour

Headquarter(s): Los Altos, California, United States

Founded: 2011

Sector: Computer software

Website: https://www.varmour.com/

vArmour is a leading provider of Application Relationship Management. The company offers data-defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms. vArmour’s exclusive security services control operational risk, increase application resiliency, and secures a hybrid cloud of enterprises around the world, all while leveraging technology they already own without adding costly new agents or infrastructure. In February 2021, the company picked up funding of US$58 million.

VaultOne

Headquarter(s): Brazil

Founded: 2017

Sector: Multiple sectors

Website: https://vaultone.com/

VaultOne develops advanced privileged access management (PAM) technology and mechanism that minimize risks and vulnerabilities within customer’s companies. VaultOne protects consumers’ data beyond the perimeters, preventing attacks where the data is most vulnerable: accounts and access. The company believes that the security solutions for managing access, privileges, and passwords are indispensable for creating a consistent strategy to protect data, assets, and resources.

Vdoo

Headquarter(s): Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Founded: 2017

Sector: Industrial systems, medical devices, automotive & transportation, Energy & utilities, Safety & Security, Building automation, Network & Telcom, Office/Home IoT devices.

Website: https://www.vdoo.com/

Vdoo is an integrated security platform for connected, IoT, and embedded devices. The company provides an end-to-end product security platform for automating all software security tasks throughout the entire product lifecycle, ensuring all findings are prioritized, communicated, and mitigated. Vdoo leverages a comprehensive, out-of-the-box platform that automates software security tasks throughout the product lifecycle to reveal, prioritize, and efficiently mitigate first and third-party security issues. The company announced US$25 million in funding in January 2021, money that it plans to use to help it better address the wider issue as it applies to all connected objects.

VU Security

Headquarter(s): Latin America

Founded: 2006

Sector: Multiple sectors

Website: https://www.vusecurity.com/en

VU Security is a cybersecurity company specialized in fraud prevention and identity protection. VU Security is committed to improving the quality of life of both citizens and organizations by building secure experiences without friction. The company creates innovative solutions for robust identity authentication through the combination of traditional cybersecurity controls with biometrics, geolocation, machine learning, ID card recognition, and user behavior analysis. VU security was included in ‘Microsoft’s 2020 Partner of the Year Awards.’

Webroot

Headquarter(s): Colorado, United States

Founded: 1997

Sector: Home and home office, Business

Website: https://www.webroot.com/us/en

Webroot is an OpenText company that uses cloud and artificial intelligence to protect against ransomware, phishing, viruses, identity thefts, and other digital dangers. Webroot secures businesses and individuals worldwide with threat intelligence and protection for endpoints and networks. After OpenText acquired Webroot and its parent company Carbonite in 2019, both the companies work together t streamline cyber resilience, and offer total endpoint protection and disaster recovery for any sized business.

WiJungle

Headquarter(s): Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Founded: 2015

Sector: Enterprise, Hospitality, Education, Healthcare, Retail, Transport, Smart city, Events, Residential

Website: https://www.wijungle.com/

WiJungle is a cybersecurity company that develops and markets a unified network security gateway worldwide to enable organizations to manage and secure their entire network through a single window. WiJungle caters to the combined functionalities of NextGen Firewall/UTM, Web Application Forewall, Hotspot Gateway, Vulnerability Assessment, Router, VPN Server, Load balancer, etc. The company was recognized by the Data Security Council of India for its promising product range.

ZeroFox

Headquarter(s): Maryland, United States

Founded: 2-13

Sector: Financial service, Retail & CPG, Media, Sports & Entertainment, Government

Website: https://www.zerofox.com/

ZeroFox is a social media security company that enables organizations to identify, manage, and mitigate social media-based cyber threats. ZeroFox uses diverse data sources and artificial intelligence-based analysis to identify and remediate targeted phishing attacks, credential compromise, data exfiltration, brand hijacking, executive, and location threats. The company’s signature product ZeroFox SaaS technology processes and protects millions of posts, landscape, spanning LinkedIn, Facebook, Slack, Twitter, Instagram, Pastebin, YouTube, mobile app stores, the deep and dark web, domains, emails, and more.

The post Top 100 Cybersecurity Startups to Look Out for in 2021 appeared first on Analytics Insight.

3 Ways Research Institutions Can Enhance Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Technology has brought countless benefits to the way we live and how we interpret the world. Scientists across different fields are using AI-powered tools in conducting field work, lab analyses, and clinical studies. Research work and technology go hand-in-hand when it comes to improving lives. However, much like everyone else who uses the internet, scientists are just as vulnerable to cyberattacks.

It’s for this reason that institutions like Purdue University encourage new ways for countering cyber threats. There is always the risk of sensitive data leaking out, so research teams will need to be careful when gathering, storing, and transferring data. Whether it’s a foreign country looking to steal data or a virus that could corrupt devices and wipe out years of research data, it’s important for research teams to invest in better defenses against such scenarios. Here’s how they can protect themselves from hacking and other threats:

1. Backup using a cloud service

Cloud computing allows you to save data offsite, allowing you to secure and back up your research files without storing them on a physical device. This allows you to recover copies of your files in case your devices are corrupted or damaged. AI-enabled cloud systems also provide an additional layer of security by assessing risk exposure and detecting threats. This allows you to secure sensitive research files and data. These types of systems can also help with processing and sifting through large amounts of data to identify threats.

2. Secure passwords and other login credentials

Passwords, usernames, and security questions are the first lines of defense against unauthorized access, which is why it’s inadvisable to use login information that’s easy to remember. You may be tempted to use your birthday as your password, but hackers are using sophisticated tools to guess passwords based on your personal information at breakneck speed. It’s always good practice to come up with complex passwords and other login credentials. They may not be easier to remember, but they can make it much more difficult for cybercriminals to force their way in.

3. Be careful when using public Wi-Fi

If you are doing field research, you might find it convenient to sit down at a cafe or public library to encode data or send documents to your team. However, the trade-off to this is that you are rendering yourself open to hackers who specialize in hijacking Wi-Fi signals and intercepting your communications. You may have to activate data encryption on your device and install anti-malware programs, especially if you are accessing private accounts and sending files to contact or other institutions. For added security, consider turning on two-factor authentication and avoid accessing unsecured websites and knowledge bases. If you are always working in the field, you check out inVPN to find a VPN service that’s ideal for your remote work.

Cybersecurity is crucial in the scientific community, so it’s imperative for researchers to know if they are doing enough to keep themselves safe from prying eyes.

The post 3 Ways Research Institutions Can Enhance Cybersecurity appeared first on Analytics Insight.

8 Important Security Tips for Web Developers

Security Tips for Web Developers
URL: https://unsplash.com/photos/p-xSl33Wxyc

Software is increasingly becoming an integral part of modern businesses. The increasing demand for software means that developers have to work incredibly hard to keep up. Businesses are requiring faster application delivery while web development grows more complicated. For instance, with tight deadlines, web developers have to build applications that can adapt to any device, integrate with other services, and port to any platform. On top of that, they must create applications that can withstand increasingly complex attacks.

The problem is that with the growing demand and changing requirements, web developers often find it hard to keep up. Some development aspects tend to be overlooked, and security is a major culprit. While security is increasingly becoming an important part of development, most web developers are not following some basic security principles. Consequently, there are numerous applications with serious security vulnerabilities. This article seeks to outline important security guidelines every web developer should follow.

1. Implement security testing

With hackers inventing new techniques everyday, security testing is necessary to enhance the security of your web application. The objective of web application security testing is to find out how vulnerable an application may be and establish whether its resources and data are protected from potential attacks. Learn more about testing here.

2. Know what you should protect

An important security principle every web developer should follow is only storing the data they need. To establish which data you should store, ask yourself how much it would hurt the company or the client if the data was compromised. There is really no need to store sensitive customer data such as their credit card numbers and addresses.

3. Encrypt sensitive user data

If you must store any sensitive information in your database, ensure it is encrypted. Storing unencrypted data in your database can easily land you and your company in hot water. You don’t want to lose customers’ sensitive data because you kept it in plain text in your database. Encrypting sensitive data is even more crucial in shared hosting environments or large companies, since not everyone with access to the data can be trusted to not exploit it.

4. Make use of a VPN

A reliable VPN connection can help to safeguard your clients’ data as well as your assets. If a hacker gets hold of your IP address, they can easily hack your device or plant malware. This is a big risk for web developers, as they have a lot of assets to protect, including custom designs, applications, and frameworks among others. If they get into the wrong hands, they can compromise the integrity of the application you are building. A good VPN provides advanced encryption protocols to protect against this.

Additionally, depending on the website you are working on, you may have access to crucial client data, which can be devastating if it’s compromised. Schematics, financial information, patent information, and a lot more can get into the wrong hands if you’re not careful with your security. Masking your IP using a VPN eliminates the risk that this data faces.

5. Keep your software updated

When trying to gain access to your database, a cybercriminal will always try to exploit the path with the least resistance. In most cases, the path of least resistance is found in insecure and outdated software. To minimize the risk of being hacked, be sure to thoroughly patch and update your application.

Another important thing you must do is to disable unused software. It is common to find companies with software linked to their systems that are not in use. If left unchecked, unused software provides an easy pathway for hackers.

6. Apply the principle of least privileges

Sometimes, external attackers are not the biggest threat to your data. It may be an ill-informed end-user with several system privileges. By reducing user privileges, you minimize the risk of security mistakes from uneducated end-users.

In every IT system or web application, it’s prudent to give users only the privileges they really need as opposed to giving all users the same access level. The principle of least privileges keeps your system more secure by eliminating the risk of abuse by unqualified users. It also eliminates unprivileged users from the blame in case of a breach.

7. Use server-side and client-side validation

For enhanced security, be sure to perform both server-side and client-side validation. Server-side validation helps to prevent malicious input, such as someone planting their code into your database. Client-side validation helps to prevent user mistakes such as forgetting a field or entering data incorrectly.

8. Sanitize user input

There should never be direct communication between user input and the database. It should be sanitized and validated to enhance data integrity and prevent common attacks such as SQL injection.

Endnote

The massive expansion of the internet hugely depends on web development and design. Web developers and designers handle lots of clients’ sensitive data, and they are major targets for cybercriminals. The above security tips can prevent your web application from being an easy target for hackers.

The post 8 Important Security Tips for Web Developers appeared first on Analytics Insight.

Another Major Cyberattack! Here’s Why Security Validation Is More Important than Ever

Cyberattack

Heard the news about Americans suddenly hoarding oil? You would probably be surprised to learn that the reason for that is a cyberattack. The most recent disruption in American oil supply is not the result of low oil production but the forced shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline following a ransomware attack.

After the SolarWinds and Codecov attacks, it is alarming that another high-profile cybercrime has managed to penetrate the defenses of a supposedly technologically advanced country. To make matters worse, it turns out the perpetrators of the attack are saying they didn’t mean to cause problems.

DarkSide, the group that claims responsibility for the attack on the pipeline that supplies 45 percent of the East Coast’s oil requirements, released a statement that somewhat mocks the severity of the problem. “Our goal is to make money and not create [sic] problems for society,” wrote a post on DarkSide’s website.

These attacks add more reasons to the need to make security validation a compulsory part of a security posture. It is no longer enough to have security controls no matter how reliable they supposedly are. Organizations also need to make sure that their security solutions are consistently working and capable enough to detect and prevent successful attacks.

More aggressive attacks

In its SOCTA 2021 report, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation or Europol rang the alarm on the surge of cybercrimes including attacks on critical infrastructure. Edvardas Sileris, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre chief, even warned that “cyber-attacks are likely still significantly under-reported” at the launch of SOCTA 2021.

The same situation can be observed in the United States. Cybercrimes have been increasing and are locking in on critical infrastructure including government offices, hospitals, and manufacturing facilities. This has led to the introduction of a bill to boost cybersecurity in the country. The bill seeks to establish an early warning system for cyberattacks on critical organizations.

According to a study reported on Cybercrime Magazine, global cybercrime damages are set to breach the $6 trillion level in 2021. These damages are largely driven by the radical increase in state-sponsored attacks as well as organized crime hacking activities.

If organizations were to secure their assets from the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber attacks, they need to ascertain that they have enough security controls and that these work as intended. In particular, it is important to implement automated breach and attack simulation (BAS).

The automated BAS security penetration testing system is considered as one of the most effective solutions for the growing cyber threats brought about by increased complexities of threat management, internal vulnerabilities, and lack of skilled security experts.

Weak sense of urgency

Simply put, people and organizations never learn from previous cyber attacks. This is evidenced by something as basic as the refusal to use stronger passwords. A study by NordPass found that the use of shockingly weak passwords was one of the reasons why organizations were successfully attacked.

The study examined over 15 million breaches and looked into the top 10 passwords used by the breached organizations. Companies in the retail and e-commerce industry particularly have easy-to-guess passwords. These include password, Company Name*, Company Name1*, 123456, abc123, unknown, ABC123, and default. The only passwords in the top 10 that may not be that easy to guess right off the bat are aaron431 and shumon, but these are likely familiar to insiders.

Vulnerabilities that are as simple as the use of weak passwords could be addressed easily by running a security validation procedure. A good automated security validation platform can detect this weakness along with other oft-ignored vulnerabilities and provide a high-priority security alert, so this problem is corrected as soon as possible. Another solution is to implement password managers which offer secure storage for your login details

Unsustainable costs of cybersecurity

Cybersecurity spending keeps growing in response to the relentless attacks from cybercriminals. Accenture’s State of Cybersecurity Report 2020 characterizes it as “unsustainable cost increases.”

The report says that 60 percent of businesses saw cost increases in various components of cybersecurity over the past two years, particularly when it comes to network security, security monitoring, and threat detection. Notably, 69 percent of the respondents say that “staying ahead of attackers is a constant battle and the cost is unsustainable.”

To reduce these costs, it is important to make sure that the installed security controls are working and are in line with the latest cyber threat intelligence. Organizations can greatly benefit from incorporating the MITRE ATT&CK framework in their security posture to make sure they can detect attacks before they manage to penetrate. In case they do manage to get past the cyber defenses, having access to up-to-date cyber threat information makes it easier to detect the problem, mitigate its impact, remediate, and fend off similar assaults in the future.

Falling cybersecurity investments

Ironically, while the costs of cybersecurity keep rising, organizations tend to reduce their investments to put up defenses. Accent’s State of Cybersecurity Report 2020 reveals that the decrease in security investments has resulted in low detection rates, longer breach impact, lower protection coverage, and greater amounts of customer data exposure.

With dropping resource allocations for cybersecurity, the best organizations can do is to make sure that what they have works as intended. They cannot afford to be running security solutions that do not only underdeliver on their promises but also become sources of vulnerabilities themselves.

This is not to say that it is acceptable to be stingy on cybersecurity. However, when businesses are in a pinch, it is understandable that many companies are doing their best to make the most out of the scarce resources available to them. They can use security validation to test cheaper or even free solutions that can sufficiently provide the protection they need.

Focus on supply chains

Another compelling reason to pay attention to security validation is the growing focus of bad actors on supply chains. Third-party providers are becoming the new cybercriminal favorites as they tend to have the trust of their customers. Many feel reassured that whatever their third-party providers do is above board since they are dealing with products or services within their field of expertise and extensive levels of experience. Unfortunately, this trust in third-party providers has been proven to be inexpedient.

The SolarWinds and Codecov incidents were all supply chain attacks. By now, the attack mechanisms have already been integrated into security validation platforms and the global adversarial attack knowledge base of MITRE ATT&CK. Similar hacks or variants thereof would already be detected by thorough security validation processes. Organizations just need to consider running automated BAS or advanced continuous automated penetration testing in conjunction with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

In summary

Cyberattacks are becoming more expensive and it is also getting increasingly costly to establish cyber defenses. Also, the attacks are becoming more aggressive, frequent, overwhelming, and sophisticated. It bears emphasizing that everyone should take cyber threats seriously. One of the best ways to address the worsening problem of cyberattacks is to make sure that the security controls organizations have are consistently effective through continuous automated security validation.

The post Another Major Cyberattack! Here’s Why Security Validation Is More Important than Ever appeared first on Analytics Insight.

Security Analytics: A Tool Against Rising Cyberattacks

Cyberattacks

Security analytics has the power to help a company eradicate cybersecurity challenges.

In this internet-driven and interconnected IT corporate world, cybersecurity is one of the most major issues that global organizations encounter. As the threat environment evolves in terms of complexity and size, the importance of protecting an organization’s assets has expanded.

Businesses, on the other hand, are unable to tackle the complex range of cyberattacks created by highly targeted malicious attackers using conventional security technologies and off-the-shelf threat intelligence. To protect against and stay ahead of the new generation of advanced cyberattacks, businesses must take intelligent and creative actions. Security analytics is being considered by medium and large enterprises as a critical move in achieving a more holistic view of their defense and security posture.

Security Analytics

Security analytics is a form of security that is proactive. For security monitoring and threat identification, it’s an ongoing process of data collection, aggregation, and evaluation.

Security analytics give businesses insight into advanced attack tactics including privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data theft that can be part of a chain of events. Its main goal is to identify foes early, rather than waiting for an answer from conventional simple tools. Security analytics can also help a company truly understand its security posture and vulnerabilities.

Use Cases

From enhancing data visibility and threat identification to network traffic analysis and user activity tracking, security analytics has a wide range of applications. The following are some of the most popular security analytics use cases:

  • Employee surveillance
  • Detecting potentially unusual trends by analyzing consumer activity
  • Analyzing network traffic to spot patterns that may indicate an attack
  • Detecting unauthorized use of user accounts, like shared accounts
  • Detecting data theft by cybercriminals
  • Identifying risks from inside
  • Detecting accounts that have been breached
  • Investigating mishaps
  • Hunting for threats

Above all, through the correlation of activities and warnings, security analytics aims to transform raw data from diverse sources into advanced analytics in order to detect incidents that need instant response. Security analytics tools do this by adding a vital filter to the massive amounts of data produced by users, apps, networks, and other security products.

The Benefit of Security Analytics

The cybersecurity industry is expanding due to advancements in cyberattackers’ strategies and methods, which can hack a device in seconds and go undiscovered for ages. Attacks are notoriously difficult to identify because they occur rapidly and the indicators are scattered through various data sources such as network servers, datasets, and apps.

Organizations may use security analytics to see how complicated attack tactics like compromised passwords and data exfiltration are used. It aids in the early detection of attackers by analyzing user account interactions for insider threat behaviors, unlike conventional security tools. Security analytics may also feed data back into the security environment of an enterprise, enabling other systems to respond to unusual activity.

Big Data Security Analytics

In order to address the challenges, the security industry has developed a new generation of security analytics solutions that can capture, store, and analyze massive quantities of security data across the entire organization on a real-time basis.

This data is then analyzed using various correlation algorithms to identify abnormalities and thereby classify potential malicious attacks, which is supplemented by additional background data and external threat intelligence.

Unlike conventional SIEM solutions, these tools run in near real-time and produce a small number of security warnings based on a risk model. These alerts are enhanced with extensive forensic information, making the job of a security analyst much easier and allowing for easy detection and prevention of cyberattacks.

The post Security Analytics: A Tool Against Rising Cyberattacks appeared first on Analytics Insight.

The Cryptocurrency Market Bounces Back

Cryptocurrency Market

Over a period of time, the cryptocurrency market has seen a huge demand. All the major currencies under this market succeeding in grabbing eyeballs from across the globe because of the spike in the prices. It was just a couple of days back when Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency and the one with the highest market capitalization, stood at $42,107.19. It was during this time that its market value reached $787.99 billion. Today, Bitcoin priced at $36,520 has a market value of $686 billion. These numbers are quite convincing because it was just a couple of days back before the surge that Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies tanked beyond anticipation. On May 19, Bitcoin drowned to $30000 and the market value reduced drastically.

Talking about the second most popular cryptocurrency – Ethereum, it currently stands at $2222. The market value of Ethereum is $256.5. Days back when Bitcoin surged in value, Ethereum also saw a significant increase. The price reached $2886.63 and the market value was at $2886.63 during that point in time. On May 19, following the line of Bitcoin, Ethereum also tanked – as much as over 40 percent.

The decline in the prices of these two highly traded cryptocurrencies was followed by Elon Musk’s reversal on Tesla taking Bitcoin as payment. Well, it didn’t just end there. Following the reversal, there were a series of tweets that paved the way for confusion over whether Elon had shed the holdings of the currency.

Investing in cryptocurrencies being legal in some countries and illegal in others has always raised a question as to how reliable the cryptocurrency market is. Different market leaders, players, and organizations, therefore, have a different perception of the same. When the world saw one of the most prominent crypto crashes on 19 May, American economist Nouriel Roubini grabbed attention for the statement he had put forth. He criticized all the institutional investors who invested in volatile pseudo-asset ‘Bitcoin’. He went on to add that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.

Though India has not made cryptocurrencies legal, the rising popularity of the same in the country is totally worth a mention. People here are always curious to know more about this digital market in depth. While many show an inclination towards investing in cryptocurrencies here, there is still a good chunk of people who choose to stay away from this unregulated market. One among them has to be Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath. He said that he doesn’t understand Bitcoin as an asset class and that is the reason why he doesn’t invest in it. He believes that the only reason to buy Bitcoin today is the hope that someone will buy it from you at a higher cost.

Other cryptocurrencies – Tether, Cardano, Binance Coin and Dogecoin have also made it into the list of highly traded cryptocurrencies. Tether which is considered to be one of the most economic cryptocurrencies stands constant at $1, Cardano at $1.4, Binance coin at $290, and Dogecoin at $0.34. All these do play a pivotal role in the cryptocurrency market and thus hold a lot of importance.

The post The Cryptocurrency Market Bounces Back appeared first on Analytics Insight.

The Importance of Cybersecurity in the Online Gambling Industry

Cybersecurity

It’s no secret that the global online gambling market has grown exponentially over the past several years. Experts predict that it will be worth a mind-boggling $92 billion by 2023. That’s a lot of money and information floating around cyberspace. However, that wouldn’t be the case if people didn’t trust the security measures that online gambling sites have in place. The best cybersecurity companies are in a perpetual battle to stay ahead of possible threats.

It’s important to understand that online casinos are made up of several components. In addition to the games themselves, operators maintain databases that contain a wealth of private and financial information. They have payment systems, apps, and other parts like registration forms that hackers can target. Every one of these mechanisms must be safeguarded.

Threats

Malicious hackers are a constant threat to online businesses as they look for the smallest of loopholes and vulnerabilities to take advantage of. One of the latest trends in cybercrime is the DDoS attack. These, like ransomware attacks, can be particularly devastating to an online gambling site. In addition to inflicting enormous financial harm on an operator and its customers, such an attack can do irreparable damage to an entire brand. It’s easy to understand how customers who have had their accounts pillaged and their personal and financial detail compromised would no longer have faith in that online casino. In fact, their confidence in the online gambling industry as a whole may be shaken too.

Another major concern for online casinos is the integrity of the games they offer. Players want to be certain that the games they play are fair. If those games are susceptible to exploitation and manipulation, the operator stands to suffer heavy losses in terms of money, reputation, and player trust. Every conceivable vulnerability at an online casino needs to be taken care of before it is exposed. The Metap online casino guide focuses a lot of attention on a site’s safety and security. They put a lot of stock in seeing certifications from entities like eCOGRA, TST, and iTech Labs. This type of documentation proves that the games are fair and can’t be tampered with by the operator or the players.

How the Online Gambling Industry Combats Threats

Online gambling sites must keep several steps ahead of the security breaches. This is a monumental challenge as new technology is constantly shifting the landscape. The online gambling industry has to be proactive and use all of the tools at its disposal to avoid such things as:

  • DDoS and Ransomware Attacks
  • Scraping
  • SQL Injection
  • Account Takeovers
  • Identity Theft and Fraud
  • Money Laundering

These days, SSL encryption is an industry-standard. This technology scrambles communications between the user and the site. Even if a ne’er-do-well was to somehow intercept this information, all they will get is a string of incomprehensible and unusable letters, digits, symbols, and other gobbledygook. Still, even this security technology is doomed to become obsolete someday. The key is finding a more effective technology and implementing it before the old one becomes ineffective.

Most gambling jurisdictions make sure that the online gambling sites they issue licenses use the most modern security technology. A site that gets hackedis sure to face a lot of scrutiny and can even have its license revoked. With the amount of money invested in such a profitable venture, it’s in an operator’s best interests to maintain the highest levels of security.

Security is Everybody’s Responsibility

Online casinos have a huge responsibility, but there is also an onus on those who play at them. They need to protect their personal details and other information such as passwords, account numbers, and credit card information. They must understand that even though they are dealing with a highly secure operator, their information can be easily compromised if they aren’t using a secure internet signal. Open Wi-Fi networks such as those found in coffee shops and other businesses give cybercriminals plenty of opportunities.

It all comes down to the industry, regulators, operators, and the end-user doing their due diligence because every stakeholder stands to lose a lot. They all need to do everything they can to prevent security breaches. Moreover, they need to know how to react if one occurs. Even though online casinos and other internet businesses may implement the tightest security, they aren’t completely immune to cybercriminals. And they probably never will be.

The post The Importance of Cybersecurity in the Online Gambling Industry appeared first on Analytics Insight.

Ethereum Forecast: What Direction the Smart Contracts Hub Going?

Ethereum

In cryptocurrency circles, Bitcoin is definitely the superpower. Any random survey on the street would indicate that the pioneer crypto has far greater name recognition.

Regardless, Ethereum is a made asset in its own right. Beginners researching what Ethereum is will be pleasantly surprised to discover that it is an entire sector within crypto. The growth of decentralized finance in 2020 was impressive, to say the least. These decentralized systems can democratize finance and make services more accessible for billions.

That is the essence of decentralized finance. Traditional finance had a centralization aspect that concentrated power in the hands of few. DeFi apps are granting developers unique tools to innovate and revolutionize finance.

Ethereum Has an Ascending Channel Pattern

You may think all cryptocurrencies are like Bitcoin. Not at all. Ethereum is much more than a store of value. The platform hosts thousands of decentralized applications that have real-world uses.

Ethereum rose in 2020 and this year on the strength of these applications. Institutional capital has followed the maturity of DeFi, pushing the industry past previous highs.

These use cases are likely to drive Ethereum in the future. The Ethereum blockchain has more versatility than the Bitcoin blockchain. Accordingly, developers have found a home to write code, create rules, and release applications. These applications run on “smart contracts,” which validate agreements without a supervising third party.

Decentralized platforms facilitate lending, trading, and even exchange services. The most significant decentralized exchange is Uniswap which moves billions in Ether and other assets every day. Blockchain provenance is creating an innovation boom that is disrupting finance all over.

Ether is at the center of this booming decentralized economy. The Wall Street Journal reported that 7 million new accounts that hold Ethereum balances were created in the first four months of 2021. This staggering number took existing accounts to over 55 million. Ethereum is now having a congestion problem because of the sheer number of transactions on the network. Luckily, Ethereum developers have enacted a series of upgrades to take the network to a new era of scalability called Serenity.

Additionally, the rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) provides more dynamism to Ethereum investors. NFTs create a unique ID or pieces of digital art with set rules for transferring ownership. Content creators and artists can write into a smart contract a piece of digital art and sell it as an NFT. This represents a new era in the marketing of digital art. Already, some NFTs are fetching millions of dollars at auctions.

The duality of DeFi applications and the NFT sector give Ethereum tremendous upside. Think of Ethereum as Google Playstore or Apple Store. It is a hub for many other financial services. Its use-cases will continue to expand as far as the imagination of smart contract developers goes.

Purchasing and Trading Ether Is Very Simple

It is fair to state that the price of Ether has only scratched the surface. The past twelve months were only a glimpse of what Ether is capable of.

Ethereum’s power is that it is at the center of a financial revolution. The true potential of decentralized finance and smart contracts will become apparent with time.

Purchasing Ethereum is quite simple. Follow these steps:

  • Find an exchange or brokerage platform like eToro to purchase Ethereum- These platforms make the sign-up process very simple.
  • Verify your account to ensure it is secure- This process typically entails providing basic identity details such as proof of address or passport.
  • Connect a payment channel such as a card or bank.
  • Deposit fiat into your account. Alternatively, if you have other cryptocurrencies, you can send them to your wallet address.
  • Make your first ETH purchase!

To Wrap It Up

Ethereum is one of the most important innovations of the past decade. Its position at the center of the next era of finance is taking shape.

Cryptocurrencies rely on supply and demand to determine prices. This is why Ethereum and other coins still exhibit significant volatility. That said, this volatility is an opportunity in itself.

In summary, Ethereum is a sleeping giant. The use cases for this platform and asset will only continue to grow as decentralized finance takes over.

The post Ethereum Forecast: What Direction the Smart Contracts Hub Going? appeared first on Analytics Insight.

Why is Cybersecurity so Important? All You Need to Know

Cybersecurity

Strong cybersecurity is essential for protection against hackers and other cybercriminals.

Cybersecurity is essential as it protects all forms of data and information, like sensitive data, personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), intellectual property, personal information, and government and industrial information systems. Without extensive cybersecurity strategies and programs, governments and organizations are left defenseless against data breaches, and it makes them an easy target for cybercriminals.

Cybersecurity is the process of protecting and recovering digital information, systems, computer networks, and devices from data breaches and cybercriminals. With the commencement of complex technologies, cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Cyberattackers have updated knowledge about the evolving technology and implement new methods involving software engineering, artificial intelligence, and analysis to breach traditional security controls.

Importance of Cybersecurity

The importance of cybersecurity is on the rise. With the increase in reliance on technology and smart internet-enabled devices, cyber breaches have become common. Data leaks can lead to identity theft, and then the information stolen can be posted on media platforms, leading to privacy breaches. Cloud storage facilities have become popular due to their specialized features allowing easy and mobile access to information. Personal information like social security numbers, credit card information, and bank account details are stored in cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Pairing this with the poor cloud storage security measures, we are witnessing cybersecurity threats that did not exist a few years ago.

According to reports in 2019, cybercrimes have cost the global market a whopping amount of US$2 trillion, prompting global expenditure of roughly US$10 billion by 2027 to protect against these cyberattacks. It is not just about the safety of global jurisdictions and large-scale organizations; average and regular customers face phishing schemes, ransomware attacks, identity thefts, data breaches, and financial losses.

Cyber breaches can also affect a country’s national security. Recently, the US government accused China of a newly discovered series of hacks against key targets that could have affected the private companies and the country’s critical infrastructure. This marks the third distinct and severe attack on the US government in recent months. Previously, the United States accused Russia of hacking nine government agencies via SolarWinds, a Texas-based software company; widely used in American businesses and companies. Earlier this year in January, Microsoft blamed China for starting a free-for-all program where many hackers broke into organizations on a global scale through the Microsoft Exchange E-mail Program.

Both China and the US use complex entities and mechanisms to prevent cyber frauds. The growing tensions between the two countries might even lead to conventional warfare.

Steps to prevent Cyber Threats

Large-scale companies, governments, and general citizens face complex challenges due to cyberattacks. Here are a few steps that can help to increase security and awareness.

1. Identifying the Threats– The basic threats like unauthorized access to information and hacks can be tackled immediately. Mostly, companies store sensitive information in their databases; if leaked, could lead the company to severe losses. Cybercriminals are always on the lookout for opportunities and information to breach privacy and steal data of importance. Hence, strict security protocols should be maintained to identify the threats swiftly.

2. Using Two-Factor Authentication– Double authentication can help reduce risks to a great extent. In this protocol, the companies will allow access to sensitive information to employees only if they follow the two-factor authentication technique. In this, the employee will have to enter the password in the system, which will be followed by a code that will only be accessible to the employee. Double authentication protects the data and discourages hackers from attacking.

3. Risk Assessments: Conducting regular risk assessments is an important step to reduce cybersecurity threats. Risk management is an important factor that contributes to the growth of the company and helps keep the business safe from competitors and hackers.

The post Why is Cybersecurity so Important? All You Need to Know appeared first on Analytics Insight.

Top 10 Cybersecurity Tools to Watch Out for in 2021

Cybersecurity Tools

Understanding the Real-time Need of Cybersecurity Tools.

Cybercrimes and cybersecurity breaches are getting profound as the world becomes hyper-modern with technology. Along with the multiple cybersecurity steps adopted and implemented to counter cyberattacks, it is also important to have a deep understanding of the cybersecurity tools that can help in countering cyber breaches.

Analytics Insight lists ten such cybersecurity tools that are potential counters to the advanced and complex attacks of 2021.

The Best Cybersecurity Tools of 2021

Kali Linux

Kali Linux is known as the most common and reputed cybersecurity tool. It is basically an operating system that contains at least 300 different tools for security auditing. The tool facilitates the organizations to scan their networks to detect all the vulnerabilities in the system. The primary benefit that Kali Linux provides is the various levels of cybersecurity knowledge. The tool is readily available for use.

Metasploit

Metasploit is best described as a collection of cybersecurity tools aimed at various purposes. The tool intricately carries out penetration test practices. The multiple purposes that this tool serves are as follows;

  • Detecting system vulnerabilities.
  • Formulation of strategies to concretize cybersecurity defense systems.
  • Management of security evaluations.
Cain and Abel

Cain and Abel is an old cybersecurity tool, which is used to detect vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems. Serving and solving straightforward problems like password security recovery, Cain and Abel is a free tool available for Windows operating system. The tool is also used to analyze routing protocols. Additional functionalities include detection of cached passwords, password boxes, and using brute force attacks to determine to crack encrypted passwords.

Wireshark

Wireshark is a console-based cybersecurity tool. Wireshark is an excellent tool that analyzes network protocol and network security in real-time. It is a cybersecurity tool that is best suitable for detecting network traffic at different levels. Organizations and business professionals use Wireshark to capture data packets and investigate the characteristics of all the data packets captured.

John the Ripper

The main purpose of John the Ripper is to test the password strength. This cybersecurity tool is programmed to detect weak passwords, which can expose the systems to cyberattacks easily. John the Ripper is usually used in UNIX environments alongside being used in Windows, DOS, and OpenVMS systems. This cybersecurity tool is used to identify encrypted logins, complex ciphers, and hash-type passwords.

Netstumbler

Netstumbler is a cybersecurity tool used in Windows operating systems. The tool is also used for wardriving purposes along with identifying open ports in a network. This cybersecurity tool restricts itself to Windows operating systems and functions on a WAP-seeking approach. The tool is reputed for network defense.

KisMAC

KisMAC is designed for wireless network security and is widely used by cybersecurity professionals. The tool scans and identifies wireless networks on Wi-Fi cards and other third-party cards. KisMAC employs techniques like exploitation of flaws in the wrong generation of security keys and cracking the security of WPA and WEP keys.

Nmap

Network Mapper (Nmap) is an open-source cybersecurity network, which is available for free. It is used to scan networks and IT systems to identify all the security vulnerabilities. Other vital activities served by Nmap’s are;

  • Mapping potential attack surfaces.
  • Monitoring service.
  • Monitoring host uptime.
Nikto

Nikto is one of the best cybersecurity tools that conduct web vulnerabilities. Nikto too is an open-source tool. The tool is widely employed by cybersecurity experts to scan web vulnerabilities. The cybersecurity tool detects database threats and detects vulnerability scans. Nikto is mostly used in covering web networks and web servers.

Nexpose

Nexpose is known as the most convenient cybersecurity tool that is used for scanning and managing threats and attacks in real-time on on-premise infrastructure. Nexpose is employed by cybersecurity organizations to identify all the potential weak points in a system.

The post Top 10 Cybersecurity Tools to Watch Out for in 2021 appeared first on Analytics Insight.