Sqreen, a cybersecurity startup founded by two former Apple security engineers, has raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Greylock Partners. CEO Pierre Betouin and CTO Jean-Baptiste Aviat say that while their main workforce will remain in Paris, France, the company will be headquartered in San Francisco.
Paul Sawers describes the “embedded microagents” that sets apart Sqreen’s cybersecurity solution from its competitors in this report from VentureBeat:
Founded in 2015, Sqreen offers an Application Security Management (ASM) platform with a technology known as Runtime Application Self-Protection Security (RASP), which it uses to embed “microagents” into applications to identify and fight threats. It gives companies such as ZipRecruiter, Le Monde, and BlaBlaCar real-time insights into suspicious activities and proactively blocks attempts to infiltrate their software.
This protection includes all the most common attacks, including SQL injections, broken authentication, and cross-site scripting (XSS), with the Sqreen dashboard notifying security personnel of any attack it has automatically thwarted.
Sqreen’s core pitch centers around ease of deployment, with no manual code modifications required in the target application. It also doesn’t redirect inbound traffic, and companies do not need to install other software on their systems.
Sqreen also allows developers to create their own custom rules to protect against specific types of exploits, such as business logic attacks. In this case, a company stipulates that the same login credentials cannot be used on machines at separate IP addresses within a two-hour period — if such an attempt is made, the second IP address is blocked for a set period of time and a notification is sent to security personnel. It’s kind of like IFTTT for cybersecurity.
