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Guardsquare makes your app harder to take apart
A free Java tool grew into a Belgian security business built around an awkward fact: your app runs on someone else’s phone. Guardsquare wants to make that a much less comfortable place for attackers.
The $525 Million Bet on the Pocket-Sized Attack Surface Enterprises Forgot
Zimperium built a business around an awkward corporate truth: the phone is now an endpoint, an authenticator and a bank branch, yet it is often the least visible screen in the security operation. Its answer is to defend both the device in an employee’s hand and the app in a customer’s pocket.
Salt Security Bet the Next Big Breach Would Walk Through an API. Now AI Agents Have the Keys.
Salt built a unicorn by watching the doors modern software forgot it had. Its next act is policing the AI agents now opening those doors at machine speed - and turning eight years of API behavior into a map security teams can use.
Aqua Security
Aqua Security is a cloud native security company founded in 2015 that helps enterprises protect containerized and cloud native applications from development to production. Its Aqua Platform is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that combines agent and agentless technology to scan code and images, enforce policies, manage cloud posture, and stop attacks at runtime. Aqua is also the creator of Trivy, the widely adopted open source vulnerability and misconfiguration scanner. Headquartered in Boston and Ramat Gan, Israel, the company protects more than 500 large enterprises and has raised $325M in total funding at a valuation above $1 billion.
Impart Security
Impart Security is a San Francisco cybersecurity company building a unified runtime protection platform for AI, APIs, and web applications. Founded in 2020 by Signal Sciences veterans Jonathan DiVincenzo, Marc Harrison, and Brian Joe, the company merges WAF, API security, Cloud Application Detection & Response, and AI Runtime Protection into one engine that runs autonomous defense agents inside production traffic.