INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When Armis launched in 2015, the company founders looked over the horizon and they saw the Internet of Things requiring a strong security
Today, the IoT security startup announced a $30 million Series B.The company has attracted a strong group of venture capitalists
The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures and Red Dot Capital
Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital, who were investors in earlier rounds, also participated
put an agent on a connected device like a video camera, light bulb or sensor
That requires some knowledge of these devices and their expected behavior and Armis has created a growing database of more than 5 million
devices to track this information.Company co-founder and CEO Yevgeny Dibrov says it involves taking that database and combining it with
build and agentless platform, we [look at] existing infrastructure, traffic, wireless infrastructure and network infrastructure, to get a
huge amount of traffic information
We analyze and detect and get a fingerprint of every device and asset in the environment and leverage the 5 million devices in the knowledge
Williams said he has been researching the IoT security market and has been seeing explosive growth in connected devices, which he sees
creating a new attack surface for the enterprise
RD budget to continue building the database of devices.
