TMCnet News
Signal Sciences Debuts Industry-First Web Protection PlatformVENICE, Calif., May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Signal Sciences today announced a completely new category of web application security solution with the launch of Signal Sciences Web Protection Platform (WPP), the industry's first true web protection platform. Built by former Etsy engineers and security leaders, the Signal Sciences WPP provides comprehensive threat protection for web applications, microservices, and APIs on any platform. Signal Sciences already protects more than 60 billion application requests every single week. The launch of WPP comes on the heels of a $15 million series B funding round led by CRV. This investment enables Signal Sciences to aggressively scale to meet growing customer demand for its disruptive new technology. Building web apps is the life blood of every business, but the industry has not yet found a way to secure the modern development process as it evolves and accelerates. According to a survey of nearly 2,300 IT professionals[1], more than 50 percent of respondents view security as an inhibitor to DevOps agility. Legacy web application security technology, such as web application firewalls (WAF), can't keep up with the complexity of modern-day applications and severely limit the speed at which a business can operate and grow. The legacy WAF market is under delivering. DevOps, agile and cloud have created a huge innovation opportunity, contributing to the rapid growth experienced by Signal Sciences and its success with leading brands, including Under Armour, Etsy, Yelp, WeWork, Tenable, and Duo Security, among many others. In a key indicator of the solution's effectiveness, 95 percent of customers have Signal Sciences installed live in production with automated blocking enabled, a radical improvement over traditional legacy WAF installations averaging approximately 10–15 percent in any level of blocking. With its pioneering web protection platform, Signal Sciences is providing a menu of deployment options, breaking down silos between teams, and helping the entire enterprise operate more efficiently and at scale. "We couldn't afford to let security become a bottleneck for our digital business operations. With Signal Sciences WPP, we can empower our development and operations teams to protect our applications far more effectively, while maintaining the speed and agility demanded by today's customers," said JJ Agha, Director of Information Security, WeWork. "Applications are being created and modified faster than they can be protected. Signal Sciences has created the first, and most efficient, defensive approach to security that I've seen in the market," said Murat Bicer, General Partner at CRV. "In tripling both their revenue - and Fortune 500 customer count - over the last year, the company is becoming a clear leader in the web protection market. There is a growing enterprise community in Southern California, and Signal Sciences is one of the most promising companies to look out for." Signal Sciences WP is the only solution in the application security market built by practitioners, for practitioners. The platform offers a menu of deployment options, including next-gen WAF and runtime application security protection (RASP) modules, and can also operate as a reverse proxy for legacy applications. Key capabilities include:
"Security continues to slow down the adoption of DevOps and cloud as it grasps for solutions to these new business imperatives. We are changing that," said Andrew Peterson, CEO and Co-Founder of Signal Sciences. "Signal Sciences WPP allows appsec teams to collaborate with their development and operations teams to automate security and release secure software faster, thus enabling their business to run quicker." Availability Signal Sciences Web Protection Platform is available immediately. Please visit here for more information. Related Links
Follow Signal Sciences
About Signal Sciences About CRV CRV has offices in Palo Alto, CA and Cambridge, MA. Visit us at CRV.com and follow us @CRV. ©2017 Signal Sciences Corp. All rights reserved For media inquiries [1] Sonatype, DevSecOps Community Survey 2017, March 21, 2017
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/signal-sciences-debuts-industry-first-web-protection-platform-300453947.html SOURCE Signal Sciences |