Cybereason Inc. has raised $4.6 million in its Series A financing round from Charles River Ventures, in order to finance its go-to-market strategy.
Cybereason says that concentrating resources and spending on adversaries or malware has been ineffective. Tracking actions and intent is critical to uncovering cyber attacks in real time, before damage. The company has defined a new approach by detecting malops that comprise distinct phases within hacking operations with intermediate goals. This approach fills the gap between penetration and damage by continuously monitoring the IT infrastructure, visually describing the malops in context and enabling security analysts to stop the hacking operation.
Cybereason was founded by CEO Lior Div, a veteran of the IDF Intelligence Corps, CTO Yonatan Striem-Amit, and chief vision officer Yossi Naar.
Cybereason’s platform discerns anomalies and distinguishes between the benign and the pernicious. The system collects specific information and combines analysis of big data algorithms along with proprietary knowledge enriched with external databases and intelligence. The platform has been deployed in several early access sites in the US and Israel, successfully identifying the most advanced and targeted attacks, such as Flame, Doqu and Stuxnet; reconstructing their impact, spread and behavior; and enabling the shutdown of malops.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on February 12, 2014
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