CloudPassage

CloudPassage
Industry Security company
Founded 2010[1]
Founder Robert Thomas, CEO
Carson Sweet, CTO
Headquarters San Francisco, United States
Brands Halo
Services Cloud security, Software as a service
Website www.cloudpassage.com

CloudPassage is a company that provides an automation platform, delivered via software as a service, that improves security for private, public, and hybrid cloud computing environments.[2][3][4][5] CloudPassage is headquartered in San Francisco.[6]

History

CloudPassage was founded by Carson Sweet, Talli Somekh, and Vitaliy Geraymovych in 2010.[6][7] The company used cloud computing and big data analytics to implement security monitoring and control in a platform called Halo.[8] CloudPassage spent a year in stealth developing the Halo technology, coming out of stealth mode to a closed beta in January 2011. In June 2012, the company launched the commercial product that included configuration security monitoring, network microsegmentation, and two-factor authentication for privileged access management.[9] By 2013, CloudPassage expanded Halo to support large enterprises with advanced security and compliance requirements with a product called Halo Enterprise.[10][11]

The first round of venture funding for the company raised $6.5 million.[7] In April 2012, CloudPassage raised $14 million.[12] The financing round was led by Tenaya Capital.[12] In February 2014, CloudPassage announced that it had raised $25.5 million in funding led by Shasta Ventures.[13][14] In total, the company has invested over $30 million in its technology and raised approximately $88 million in capital.

Product

The CloudPassage platform provides cloud workload security[15] and compliance for systems hosted in public or private cloud infrastructure environments, including hybrid cloud and multi-cloud workload hosting models.[16] The flagship product the company offers is called Halo.[17][18] Halo secures virtual servers in public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures and provides file integrity monitoring (FIM)[18][19] while also administering firewall automation, vulnerability monitoring, network access control, security event alerting, and assessment.[20][16][21] The Halo platform also provides security applications such as privileged access management, software vulnerability scanning, multifactor authentication, and log-based IDS.[21]

In December 2013, CloudPassage set up six servers with Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems and combinations of popular programs and invited hackers to attempt to hack into the servers.[22] The top prize was $5,000 and the winning hacker was a novice that completed the task in four hours.[22] CloudPassage programmed the servers to use basic default security settings to show how vulnerable cloud computing programs can be to security threats.[22]

Awards and recognition

In May 2011, Gigaom named CloudPassage in its list of the Top 50 Cloud Innovators.[3] That same month, eWeek recognized CloudPassage as one of 16 Hot Startup Companies Flying Under the Radar.[23]

SC Magazine named CloudPassage an Industry Innovator in the Virtualization and Cloud Security category in 2012.[17] Also in 2012, The Wall Street Journal named CloudPassage a runner up in the Information Security category of its Technology Innovation Awards.[2]

The CloudPassage large-scale security program, Halo, won Best Security Solution in 2014 at the SIIA CODiE Awards.[24]

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  2. 1 2 "Information Security". Wall Street Journal. 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  3. 1 2 Derrick Harris; Stacey Higginbotham (2011-05-18). "The Structure 50: The Top 50 Cloud Innovators". Gigaom. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  4. ↑ Derrick Harris; Stacey Higginbotham (2011-05-18). "The Structure 50: The Top 50 Cloud Innovators". Gigaom. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  5. ↑ "Cloud Security Startup Comes Out Of Stealth To Secure Cloud Servers". CRN. 2011-01-26. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  6. 1 2 Leena Rao (April 11, 2012). "Cloud Server Security Software Startup CloudPassage Raises $14M From Benchmark And Others". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  7. 1 2 Steven E.F. Brown (2011-04-27). "CloudPassage raises $6.5 million". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  8. ↑ Chris Talbot (2013-09-26). "CloudPassage Halo Enterprise Uses Botnet to Secure Cloud". Talkin' Cloud. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  9. ↑ Nick Kolakowski (June 12, 2012). "CloudPassage Pushes Authentication for Cloud Servers". SlashDot. Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ Mike Lennon (2013-09-27). "CloudPassage Extends Cloud Security Solution to the Enterprise". Security Week. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  11. ↑ Ritu Saxena (2013-09-26). "CloudPassage Halo Enterprise - Cloud Security Solution For Large Enterprises". Tools Journal. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  12. 1 2 Mike Lennon (11-04-2012). "Cloud Server Security Firm CloudPassage Raises $14 Million". Security Week. Retrieved 2014-07-31. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ↑ Eric Blattberg (2014-02-13). "CloudPassage lands $25.5M to 'keep the bad guys out of clouds'". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  14. ↑ Peter Delevett (2014-02-13). "Wiretap Wrapup: New Deals For Tintri, CloudPassage And More". Silicon Beat. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  15. ↑ "Andras Cser's Blog". blogs.forrester.com. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  16. 1 2 Roger Strukhoff (2011-12-21). "CloudPassage: "Only Security Platform Purpose-Built for Cloud"". Cloud Computing Journal. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  17. 1 2 Peter Stephenson (03-12-2012). "Industry Innovators: Virtualization & cloud security". SC Magazine. Retrieved 2014-07-31. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. 1 2 Berislav Kucan. "Shaping the future of information security". Net Security. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  19. ↑ "The Top 20 Cloud Security Vendors Of 2011". CRN. 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  20. ↑ Jeffrey Schwartz (2012-07-25). "Security SaaS Provider CloudPassage Now Protects Windows Servers". Redmond Magazine. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  21. 1 2 Linda Musthaler (2014-06-06). "CloudPassage adds important security functions to virtualized environments". Network World. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  22. 1 2 3 Dune Lawrence (2013-12-22). "Hackers find cloud servers easy prey". SF Gate. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  23. ↑ Chris Preimesberger (04-05-2011). "Cloud Computing: 16 Hot Startup Companies Flying Under the Radar in 2011". eWeek. Retrieved 2014-07-31. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  24. ↑ "Halo Enterprise - CloudPassage". SIIA CODiE Awards. 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-28.
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