Cloud Computing: IP protection startup Inquisitive Systems gets funding to battle APTs
April 9, 2013
Grazed from TechWorld. Author: John E. Dunn.
Promising Scottish security startup Inquisitive Systems has been handed £500,000 ($750,000) by angel investors to boost development of its innovative ZoneFox system designed to protect firms from the threat of having sensitive IP assets stolen by hackers. Spun out in 2010 from Edinburgh’s Napier University, the latest round has come from the Archangel syndicate, building on top of previous tranches from Scottish Enterprise, which invested £100,000, and £60,000 from seed investors.
The faith being shown by investors appears to be based on the belief that with targeted attacks, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), and economic digital warfare now established threats, ZoneFox is a technology that has matured at precisely the right moment…
Using a Windows or Linux PC agent that works in real time, ZoneFox monitors access to unstructured data (i.e. files), comparing that to defined security policies using a SaaS-based engine. The trick is working out what is unusual or illegal, for instance when a files is copied from one location to another, offering alerts that can acted upon as well as forensic reporting later on…
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