Cyber security is a large field where young engineers specialize in a sub-fields to reach efficiency, a breach could occur in one of the many layer available to attacker: application, network, .... startups are innovating and developing products to meet a variety of security needs depending on their customers sizes and activities.
Corporate : risk cycle insight,
Software companies : code risk management,
Government contractors : regulatory compliance,
SOC : analysis automation,
Hardware ports : hardware security,
Echo-system : multi-party-cryptography.
Risk management
On the 12.July.2021, banco santander published a press release announcing ALYNE as a winner of santander x global challenge in the scale-up category with 50,000 EUR cash prize, ALYNE is an AI cyber security and regulatory compliance solution.
ALYNE is in the reg-tech field, to simplify we can say that they gather data about known risks like legal obligations from different laws and they build a framework to measure risks associated with this laws like fines for companies in case they do not comply with this laws.
This give access to identification, assessment, metrics and allow CRO to have a clearer picture about what they should do first. If a risk is rated too high they will advice executive to invest in equipment or create a position to reduce the possibility that losses will occur in the future.
Applications code risk management
On 19. May. 2021, RSA Conference published a press release announcing APIIRO as the RSAC innovation sandbox contest winner, named the most innovative startup prize, APIIRO is code risk platform that provides risk visibility in the web development processes. It's a useful tool that help CISO, CIO, AppSec Leader and developers better prevent security incidents due to vulnerable code.
Government contractors cyber security compliance
On the 12. Jul. 2021, the Virginia governor office published a press release announcing ATWORKS SYSTEMS INC as a winner CCF commonwealth commercialization fund grant with 100,000 USD prize, it's a cyber security assessment tools for SaaS platform.
ATWORK SYSTEMS INC major product is oneLink a SaaS business intelligence application for government contractors small businesses, they recently identified a market need following the implementation on November 30, 2020 of CMMC cyber security maturity model certification (DFARS Case 2019-D041) and developed a compliance framework that help small business access contract awards.
Vulnerability prioritization automation
On the 22. Oct. 2021, Bend venture conference published an article announcing DEEPSURFACE as the first place winner of the 2021 bend venture conference growth stage competition with 200,000 USD prize, it's a risk-based predictive vulnerability management platform that contextualizes vulnerabilities within a business's digital infrastructure.
Through API keys DEEPSURFACE access and collect vulnerabilities data from your vulnerability scanner, It's intended to stop the cyber security analysis data flood by answering this question:
what should i patch first?
Hardware security
On the 1. Oct. 2021, Arch Grants published a press release announcing ERKIOS SYSTEMS as one of the 2021 Global Startup Competition winners with a 50,000 USD grant prize, it's a cyber security company that protects organizations from data leaks that occur as a result of unauthorized access.
ERKIOS SYSTEMS is offering FortiFi RJ-45 a small device that plugged to the RJ45 cable help secure hardware port, it's a physical layer additional security measure.
Multi-party-cryptography
On the 12. Mar. 2021, insurTech new York published an article announcing TIDE FOUNDATION as the winner of carrier/broker global early stage competition at the insurTech spring conference with 100,000 USD prize. TIDE FOUNDATION is an innovative security model offering multi-party-cryptography where attacker need to access keys fragmented across a host of servers to access one system.
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