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2018 SINET 16 Innovators Announced
SINET,
an organization focused on advancing cybersecurity innovation through
public-private collaboration, announced today the winners of its annual
SINET 16 innovation competition. The winning companies represent a range
of solution providers that deliver cutting-edge technologies to address
cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. Winners were selected from a
pool of 123 applicants from nine countries, including Australia, Canada,
France, India, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the
United States. The selected companies will share their work with buyers,
builders, investors and researchers during the SINET
Showcase on Nov. 7-8, 2018, at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C.
Since the award program launched 10 years ago, the applicant pool of
early stage and emerging technology companies with revenues under $15
million has become more and more competitive. Entries were evaluated in
a two-stage process by the SINET
Showcase Steering Committee, which is comprised of 100 cybersecurity
professionals, including chief security information officers from
leading organizations worldwide, experts in government intelligence and
defense agencies, and distinguished venture capital firms.
This year's 16 winners are headquartered across three countries: Canada,
the U.S., and Switzerland. In the U.S., six of the winners are based in
California, four in New York, and one each in Massachusetts, Maryland,
Texas and Virginia. Six of the companies were founded before 2013, with
all others launching by the end of 2016.
The 2018 SINET 16 Innovators are:
Acalvio (News - Alert) Technologies - Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense
solutions to detect, engage and respond to malicious activity inside the
perimeter. The solutions are anchored on patented innovations in
Deception and Data Science. It is built on Acalvio's patented Autonomous
Deception technology - Deception, SDN and AI.
Avanan - Avanan, The Cloud Security Platform, protects any SaaS (News - Alert)
or IaaS with the security industry's most advanced technology to protect
against malware, phishing, ransomware, shadow IT, data leakage, insider
threats and more. It is a single compliance policy manager with no need
for proxy or agent.
Bitglass - Bitglass' next-gen cloud security solutions deliver
zero-day, agentless, data and threat protection for any app, any device,
anywhere. Bitglass is backed by Tier 1 investors and was founded in 2013
by a team of industry eterans with a proven track record of innovation
and execution.
Claroty - Claroty's mission is to protect industrial control
networks from cyberattacks, ensuring the safe and reliable operation of
the world's most critical infrastructures.
D3 Security - D3 combines security technologies, threat
intelligence and dynamic playbooks to supercharge SOCs and achieve rapid
incident response. D3 solves SOC and IR challenges by automating
risk-based response actions, orchestrating human and machine processes
and documenting every incident and action taken.
Edgewise Networks - Edgewise provides cloud workload security
through zero trust. Edgewise stops attackers' lateral movements and
protects workloads by allowing only verified applications, users,
containers, and hosts to communicate throughout companies' dynamic,
hybrid cloud environments.
Enveil - Enveil is a pioneering data security company protecting
Data in Use. Enveil's Never Decrypt computation capability closes the
last gap in data security by protecting data while it's being used.
Enveil allows enterprises to securely operate on data in the Cloud, on
prem, or anywhere in between.
ID Quantique - ID Quantique (IDQ) is a world leader in
quantum-safe crypto solutions, designed to protect data for the
long-term future, provides quantum-safe network encryption, secure
quantum key generation and quantum key distribution solutions to the
financial industry, enterprises and government organisations globally.
Illusive Networks - Having pioneered deception-based
cybersecurity, Illusive Networks continues to evolve its
intelligence-driven, proactive approach by leveraging a range of
advanced tools to manage the entire threat life cycle -from preemption,
to detection and response - mitigating advanced attacks.
Nehemiah Security - Nehemiah Security is pursuing a new
definition of success for cybersecurity--minimizing negative impacts to
the business. Our clients rely on Nehemiah's risk quantification
platform to prioritize security risks, justify spend, and integrate
cyber into strategic business decisions.
Payfone - Payfone's digital identity solutions protect companies
& consumers against identity fraud using dynamic digital signals instead
of relying on stores of static personal data. Our modernized approach
enables safer, easier and more convenient digital experiences across
mobile, PC, and voice calls.
SecureLogix - SecureLogix is a pioneer in the enterprise voice
security market. The company's solutions are currently securing six
million enterprise voice and unified communications lines. The company
owns 14 U.S. and international patents.
Vade Secure - Vade Secure, the leading predictive email defense
solution, protects 500M mailboxes globally against the most
sophisticated email threats - phishing, spear-phishing, malware &
ransomware. Our predictive approach leveraging AI ensures zero-day
protection against unknown, dynamic attacks.
Valimail - Valimail has developed the world's first cloud service
that fully automates email authentication, giving brands fraud
protection across mailboxes worldwide and allowing organizations to
prevent phishing attacks and regulate their email domains.
Very Good Security - Very Good Security's (VGS) mission is to
securely power the world's sensitive data operations. With VGS,
customers instantly achieve a best-in-class security posture, free from
the risk of data breaches, and inherit regulatory compliances (PCI (News - Alert),
SOC2, HIPAA, etc.) with minimal, if any, code changes.
Zingbox, Inc. - Zingbox was founded to provide operational
intelligence and security for Internet of Things (IoT) devices across
wide range of industries. Zingbox's solution is the first AI machine
learning platform designed to discover, manage, secure and optimize IoT
devices w/o agents or altering the network.
"The SINET Showcase is my favorite program every year, because it
provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to have a voice in front of
350 attendees, many who are investors, buyers of cyber solutions and
policy makers," said Robert D. Rodriguez, Chairman of SINET.
"Congratulations to this year's SINET 16 Innovators, who are emerging as
leaders in their field, and paving the way for critical security
advancements across industries. We are proud to play a role in
increasing the awareness that these technologies exist, and look forward
to seeing these 16 companies continue to grow and innovate."
About SINET Showcase
SINET Showcase provides a platform for the business of Cybersecurity to
take place. We connect innovative early stage and emerging growth
Cybersecurity solution providers with system integrator, private
industry and Federal Government markets including civilian, military and
intelligence communities. Our goal is to highlight global entrepreneurs
by increasing their product awareness to a select audience of venture
capitalists, investment bankers as well as industry and Government
buyers. The program is supported by the Department of Homeland Security,
Science & Technology Directorate.
About SINET
SINET is a purpose driven community. Our mission is to advance
innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and
private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. We are a "Super
Connector." SINET actively brings together innovative entrepreneurs with
executives from private industry, venture capital, investment banking,
system integration, policy, legal, academia and science, as well as
International Government's civilian, military and intelligence agencies.
Our Forums, Public Private Partnership Dinners and Workshops take place
in: New York City, London, Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., Sydney,
Melbourne, Paris, Davos and Toronto. For more information, please visit: www.security-innovation.org.
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