CloudPassage

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CloudPassage
IndustrySecurity company
Founded2010 [1]
FounderCarson Sweet, CEO
Headquarters
San Francisco
,
United States
BrandsHalo
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]

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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]

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