Signal Sciences
Signal Sciences is an American security technology company the offers a next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) with headquarters currently in Culver City, CA. Customers include Under Armour, Etsy, Adobe, Datadog, WeWork and more. The company develops a next-gen web application firewall (WAF) and runtime application self protection (RASP) tool that provides web application developers comprehensive, scalable threat protection and security visibility for critical their web applications, microservices and APIs.
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| Industry | IT, Cybersecurity, Application Security |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Culver City , USA |
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Key people | Andrew Peterson (Founder, CEO) Nick Galbreath (Founder, CTO) |
| Products 📟 | Next-Gen WAF/RASP |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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History[edit]
Signal Sciences is privately held and private-equity backed. On May 24, 2014 the company secured a $2 million seed round, followed by $9.7 million in series A funding in 2016 and a series B funding of $15 million in 2017[1]. Lead investors for seed funding included Harrison Metal and Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures. Investors in Series A and B rounds include Index Ventures and CRV.
Signal Sciences was founded in 2014 by Andrew Peterson, Nick Galbreath and Zane Lackey: prior to founding the company, the founders met at Etsy where they ran DevOps and security operations. During their time at Etsy they became frustrated with existing legacy WAF technology that neither met flexible development needs nor provided useful attack data.[2]
The company's advisors and board of directors include former chief security officers of Facebook (Alex Stamos) and Adobe (Brad Arkin), Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and CTO John Allspaw, TripWire founder Gene Kim, and Facebook’s former director of security, Ryan McGeehan[3].
The Product[edit]
The Signal Sciences next-gen WAF utilizes a patented approach that uses lightweight software modules and agents throughout customers’ web servers and applications to collect information about their security posture[4] and surfaces real-time event details through self-service dashboards, intelligent alerting and actionable reporting powered by the Signal Sciences Cloud Engine.
Installed in web server, application, PaaS, or gateway—either on-prem or in the cloud—Signal Sciences stops OWASP top 10 attacks, bad bots, account takeovers, app DoS, and unique application abuse and misuse[5]. Security operations and software engineering teams access alerts and data through tools they already use such as SIEMs (security information and event management) and webhooks to common DevOps tools like Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, and Jira[6]
Industry recognition[edit]
- DevOps Excellence Award: Best DevOps Security Tool
- InfoWorld 2018 Technology of the Year Award winner
- Signal Sciences Named a Gartner Cool Vendor 2017
Further reading[edit]
- Fast Company: How Etsy’s Talent Pool Seeded A New Kind Of Cybersecurity Startup
- SC Magazine: First Look: Signal Sciences Web Protection Platform
- 415 Research: Signaling Ambition Signal Sciences Expands its Web Protection Platform
- TechCrunch: Signal Sciences lands $15M investment to help secure DevOps world
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References[edit]
- ↑ "Signal Sciences funding rounds". Crunchbase. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ↑ Rogers, Bruce (7 June 2017). "Andrew Peterson's Signal Sciences Sees Big Opportunity In Web Application Security". Forbes. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ↑ Ungerleider, Neal (2016-02-26). "How Etsy's Talent Pool Seeded A New Kind Of Cybersecurity Startup". Fast Company. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
- ↑ "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Full Text of Patent No. 9942197". U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ↑ Swaney, Andrea. "Our Solution - Web Application Security". Signal Sciences. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
- ↑ Kepes, Ben. "Signal Sciences wants to protect ALL the web". Network World. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
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