TaaSERA:

Headquarters: Cupertino, California

Founded: 2012

Leadership: Shrinivas Kumar, CTO and vice president

How they made onto the list:

‘TaaSERA’ stands for ‘Trust as a service.’ The company is all set to offer its products and services for enterprises and its networking departments. In coming months, the company will be launching a product known as TaaSERA Attack Warning and Response Engine (AWARE). The company is all set to debut its services in behavior based malware and attack detection software arena this year. The company will also be releasing software for Windows and Android platforms. Another utility within the software is the network sensors, aimed to be installed and to monitor signs of any malicious behavior from irregular codes or even attackers in real time.

Interesting Fact: Shrinivas Kumar, CTO and vice president, was previously solutions architect at VMware.

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