Computer security is a difficult problem that attracts some of the brightest minds in the tech industry who build some of the most innovative products.
We've assembled this list of the hottest, coolest security startups creating buzz for a number of reasons:
- They've landed big finance rounds.
- They have impressive founders.
- They are solving a hard security problem.
- They are approaching security in a fresh new way.
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Appthority: Protecting mobile app developers
These days, everyone and anyone is a mobile app developer. But just because you can build an app, doesn't mean it's good or safe.
Appthority offers a cloud platform that checks to see if an app is secure so it can't be hacked by the bad guys.
Appthority's CEO and co-founder, Anthony Bettini hails from McAfee and was the technical editor for one of the best-selling hacking books of all time, "Hacking Exposed."
ThreatMetrix: Putting it all together to stop fraud fast
Most businesses use a whole bunch of security products. If they find evidence of a hacker, that info isn't easily shared between security products.
ThreatMetrix offers a cloud service that does all the big security stuff in one system and this lets it detect fraud the instant it happens, not sometime later.
ThreatMetrix landed on the Wall Street Jounal's Top 50 startups of 2012 after it acquired another buzzy startup, malware detection firm TrustDefender, last year.
Marble Cloud Security: Keeps hackers from fooling you into loading their malware
Marble Cloud offers software for the bring-your-own-device phenom. Install it and if a user gets hacked, the malware can't gain access to the company's other data through the device.
It also protects people from bad stuff that could happen when they use a public Wi-Fi and from a growing threat known as "SMS phishing" where a text from the bad guys can fool you into installing malware or giving away your password.
Dave Jevans, founder and CTO, is also the founder of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, whose members include Yahoo, eBay, Google and Microsoft.
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