Tag Archive for: Endpoint

Google Capital likes CrowdStrike for endpoint protection

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Next-gen endpoint protection vendor CrowdStrike has landed $ 100 million in new investments to beef up sales and engineering and continue its push to make anti-virus software obsolete.

The company will hire at least another 70 people to boost its engineering staff as well as expand its operations outside North America. The company has about 210 employees now, says CEO George Kurtz.

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The new funding pushes total investment in the company to $ 156 million and makes it the first security company that Google Capital has invested in. Also participating in this C Round of funding is Rackspace, Accel Partners and Warburg Pincus.

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Startup Barkly touts light, fast endpoint protection

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Barkly, a startup in endpoint security, has now banked enough investment money to keep it going for two more years and plans to launch its first products sometime in late 2015.

The company’s founders say they have a new, lighter endpoint agent than competitors have that discovers and blocks the installation of malware as well as blocking behaviors that indicate an ongoing attack against the network.

Although they are being close with details, the agent makes a small footprint on the endpoint and uses up less than 1% of CPU when it is active, say Barkly’s founders, CEO Mike Duffy and CTO Jack Danahy.

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Tanium pulls down $52M more venture capital for endpoint platform

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Tanium has pulled in another $ 52 million in venture capital and is upgrading its endpoint software platform so it’s easier to tell it what to do and for it to gather threat intelligence from third-party platforms.

The company got the latest investment from Andreessen Horowitz, bringing total investment in the company to $ 142 million. It says it will use the money to help it innovate and grow faster and to make a push into the largest enterprises.

A new version of its Endpoint Platform software agents and server – for systems management and endpoint security – can now scale to millions of endpoints supported by a single server. The platform can perform routine IT operations chores – software distribution, asset discovery, compliance monitoring and the like – as well as gather intelligence to discover intrusions. A new capability is evaluating versions of software on endpoints and distributing software patches within seconds or minutes, the company says.

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Startup takes the effort out of endpoint detection and response

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Startup Red Canary is offering an endpoint detection and response service based in the cloud that is backed up by a team of analysts who weed out false alarms.

The service, called Red Canary, takes data gathered from customer endpoints, analyzes it and delivers alerts to customers so they can take steps to block attacks.

While the service uses its own behavioral analysis, code analysis, and base-lining tools, it relies on Bit9+CarbonBlack for endpoint sensors. It gathers threat intelligence on its own and supplements it with the resources of Threat Recon, Farsight Security and Bit9+CarbonBlack’s Threat Intelligence Cloud.

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