Best Startup Security Companies To Watch in 2014


BANGALORE: In this era of online banking frauds and attacks on them, the necessity to secure the transactions and their data becomes the main concern. So, to curb the fresh approaches towards the cyber crimes and malwares the security startups step in with their completely new methods to battle out these threats. Read on to find out about interesting security startup companies, as compiled by the Network world.

# Distil Networks: Founded in 2011 and headquartered in the United States, Distil networks protects websites from internet bot attacks, which are responsible for the frauds, data thefts and programs for sluggish performance of the website based applications. The startup offers the first cloud based bot detection and mitigation services with bot- finger print database that can identify and track bots in the real time. Co-founded by Rami Essaid, Distil Networks recently received a funding of $10 million by Foundry Group and Techstars’ Bullet Time Ventures.    

# Fortscale: Fortscale is an Israel-based startup, which focuses on gaining visibility into the suspicious data allowed by the users or the employee of an organization and helps to determine if the hacker has stolen the user credentials or indicate an inside threat.  Started in 2012, Iden Tendler is the CEO and the co-founder of Fortscale. According to the Venture Beat news, the startup had recently announced a $10 million funding and is backed up by top tier investors. Its current solution includes Fortscale 1.0, which is still in development stages and the company plans to get its commercial products sometime this year.

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