As more and more applications move to the Web, computer security is increasingly threatened by security holes in Web applications, denial of service attacks on business Websites, and phishing expeditions that spread through social networks. If Twitter can be hacked, so can your company’s Website. A startup called Dasient is preparing to address the new class of security issues arising from Web applications with a suite of tools to track and close off such vulnerabilities. It will officially launch next week.
The company will target both Website owners and ISPs as potential customers. Attacks on Websites and Web applications can spread faster than traditional desktop viruses, but they can also be detected faster. A Web-scale approach will be the key to keeping one step ahead of the bad guys.
Dasient’s founders are Neil Daswani, formerly a Web security engineer and product manager at Google, Ameet Ranadive (ex-McKinsey), Googler Shariq Rizvi (another Google alum). They raised $2 million last fall in a seed round from investors Mike Maples, ex-Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos, and ex-3Com/Palm chairman Eric Benhamou.
Neil Daswani has rock solid peer review research publications behind him on his CV. I think that Dasient is on to something very big here. Well done to founders and I think that Dasient will find no problem in seeking funds down the line from investors, because they’ve got brains.
uh, it’s Stratton Sclavos.
Sounds very similar to a company I am a part of-
http://www.tech...sed-protection/
Of course FWS is sold exclusively to datacenters and hosting company’s at this point- No selling to the end user anymore, was to much of a support nightmare.
Dan, don’t make the people here laugh. How’s your firewall OR ANY firewall without a dynamic decision-making software will be of any help against the DDOS from a bot-net of SEVERAL MILLION hijacked computers?
That is the scale of operations of the ‘bad guys’ if you ever met them.
BTW, if you didn’t – buy a 6-digit ICQ number from somebody, they will knock on your door in a moment (from one of those hijacked computers of course).
The problem is not the technology or the building of the technology, but how to sell it.
The CEO’s still need to understand what they are buying.
web applications security has been over a decade now; even if this specific offering is up to protecting a certain class of threats that prior outfits haven’t it can only be an incremental addition;
what’s the offering, software, appliance, service ..