Confluera Inc., the real-time cybersecurity company, today announced that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed’s Ravi Mhatre with significant participation by John W. Thompson, former CEO of Symantec; Frank Slootman, former CEO of ServiceNow; and Lane Bess, former CEO of Palo Alto Networks. The company also launched its Early Access Program for Real-time Attack Interception and Defense platform today.
In spite of aggregate security spending exceeding $124 billion, businesses around the world are struggling to detect and stop ever-increasing cybersecurity attacks. These attacks typically blend in the environment, dwell over potentially long periods and use stealthy techniques to move around the infrastructure leading to devastating data breaches and reputational damages. However, the cybersecurity industry continues to focus on largely ineffective point solutions with narrow visibility, inconclusive correlations, and post-facto breach analysis.
Confluera offers complete real-time visibility and automated response to security breaches by fusing machine comprehended threat rankings with accurately tracked activity trails. This marks the beginning of an era in cybersecurity space where manual threat hunting and correlations are replaced by deterministic and autonomous tracking of the attacker’s intent and progress. Enterprises can now automatically manage security risks across their critical infrastructure.
The Confluera platform is underpinned by patent-pending Distributed Execution Trail Ranking technology. The technology leverages distributed ledger principles to deterministically track infrastructure wide activity trails while continuously aggregating machine-comprehended behavioral signals on these trails. These trails are scored and ranked to conclusively intercept ongoing attacks out of a haystack of disconnected signals and automatically deliver surgical responses.
“Confluera addresses today’s cyber threats with a game-changing platform that eliminates costly and ineffective solutions that rely on manual triages and probabilistic correlations. Our platform delivers deterministic and autonomous protection against cybersecurity threats,” says Confluera Co-Founder and CEO Abhijit Ghosh. “We are fundamentally changing how businesses manage security risks.”
Early Access Program
Demonstrating the pent-up demand for a new approach to cybersecurity, Confluera is already working with several customers and partners. Starting today, the Real-time Attack Interception and Defense platform is now available through Confluera’s Early Access Program.
“As a global company, we are always concerned about protecting our core applications and data against ever-increasing cyberattacks. None of the solutions in the market could detect breaches in real time, and more importantly, remove them surgically. With Confluera, we are able to accurately detect and respond to breaches in real time without impacting our business.” – Sean Henry, Sr. MIS Manager, American Showa
“With the number of data breaches in the headlines on a daily basis, and customer-sensitive data appearing on the dark web, we at CohnReznick are focused on state-of-the-art technologies that can help us detect and thwart ongoing attacks. Confluera allows us to very easily deploy a unique solution that operationalizes our critical infrastructure security.” – Richard Cannici, Head of Infrastructure and Security, CohnReznick
Resources
To learn about the benefits of Real-time Attack Interception and Defense, or to join Confluera’s Early Access Program, click here.
About Confluera
Confluera’s mission is to redefine the security paradigm by introducing real-time interception and response capabilities to deal with modern cyberattacks. Confluera aims to turn security analysts into cyber defenders by enabling them to stop breaches in real time. Confluera is Co-Founded by Abhijit Ghosh, Niloy Mukherjee, and Bipul Sinha. Ghosh has a background in networking, security and real-time systems, Mukherjee’s background is in distributed computing, operational analytics, and artificial intelligence, and Sinha is the Co-Founder & CEO of Rubrik. For more information, please visit confluera.com.
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