Armorize, provider of web application security solutions, has secured a Series B round of financing from its (unnamed) Silicon Valley-based Series A investors, Estonian seed fund Ambient Sound Investments and Asian firm Birch Venture Capital.
For your information, ASI is the investment vehicle of Skype’s founding engineers. They’ve recently invested in a European community network for pet owners, which we covered last week.
Armorize provides Web application security solutions such as malicious code detection, real time web application protection, and static source code analysis services throughout the system development life cycle, under brand names like CodeSecure, SmartWAF, HackAlert and Archon Scanner.
Armorize caters to a variety of industries, including finance, telecom, government, and technology sectors. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Santa Clara, California with an additional office in Taipei, Taiwan.
It looks like a service any web app developer should avail of. Any first hand experience users who can comment on how the service is, how the competitors are and is it worth value for money.
Thanks!
HackAlert is a perfect monitoring and response tool for businesses reliant on their online presence, as well as organizations responsible for the security of multiple websites. In particular, it adds significant value to the services offered by organizations such as Web application hosting providers, managed service providers or security operations centers.
The Codesecure static analysis tool looks interesting. It is on an appliance. Apparently they have compilers and interpreters on the box itself. The web interface allows you to either import the source code as a zip or you can point the appliance the SVN/CVS/VSS repository. I cannot comment on the accuracy as I have not used it but in terms of deployment overhead this sounds ideal.