Cloud Computing: Menlo Comes Out of Stealth with Plan To Fight Malware
Grazed from TopTechNews. Author: Jeff Cozza.
A new security company has just entered the market with a new plan to defeat malware attacks over the Web and e-mail. Menlo Security, which just closed on a $25 million Series B funding round, unveiled its Isolation Platform aimed at protecting end users by executing all Web content in the cloud rather than on users’ devices.
Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., the company, which emerged from stealth on Monday, consists of several researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, along with experts in security, cloud, and virtualization technology. The new round of financing brings the total company funding to $35.5 million — Menlo also announced $10.5 million in Series A funding in November…
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