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Security Company CrowdStrike Scores $100M Led By Google Capital
https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/13/security-company-crowdstrike-scores-100m-led-by-google-capital/
If you need proof that security is a red hot market these days, how about this morning’s announcement that cybersecurity company CrowdStrike landed a $100 million Series C investment round?
The round was led by Google Capital with Rackspace, which happens to be one of the company’s customers also investing. Existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus also participated. Today’s investment brings the total to-date to $156 million.
Business Insider broke the story as a rumor on Friday night. We have additional details.
CrowdStrike describes its Falcon cloud platform as “end point protection” delivered as Software as a Service. Traditionally this type of protection has been delivered by companies like FireEye and Cisco as a hardware solution that sits on your network and is designed to protect organizations from attacks.
That worked fine when there was a well defined end point, but in a mobile and cloud world, the lines between inside and outside have become blurred. Employees aren’t sitting at their desks on computers under the control of the company. They are increasingly moving through the world with mobile devices, and as such, the notion of security has changed — and security companies are adjusting.
In fact, most security products today are designed to protect customers from malware, exploits, malicious websites and unpatched vulnerabilities. CrowdStrike claims to differentiate itself from the pack by offering protection even when the attack isn’t delivered by malware, according to a CrowdStrike spokesperson.
"Recall that the FBI was denied access to the DNC servers by the DNC itself, and simply agreed to rely on the results provided by crowdstrike, which as you can see has ties to all sorts of anti-Russia organizations and individuals. I find it absolutely remarkable that James Comey head of the FBI outsourced his job to crowdstrike.
There remains zero evidence that Russia hacked the DNC. I repeat, there remains zero evidence that Russia hacked the DNC."
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