Startup Cyber adAPT takes on threat detection

Cyber adAPT, a startup springing from DARPA funded research, is shipping its first products that detect network compromises and gather data that can be used later for forensic analysis of breaches.

The company’s appliance-based platform monitors network traffic looking for suspicious communications that might indicate a breach and correlates it with threat feeds to improve its accuracy.

The company just landed a $ 4.1 million Series A round from Alvin Fund, Granite Point Capital Partners, Griffin Fund II, and Fundamental Capital Management. It started work about 15 months ago and grew out of Irvine Sensors, which had done research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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