There are a lot of different events, sessions and activities to take in at the massive RSA security conference. The 2019 RSA Conference runs from March 4-8 in San Francisco, with the highlight of the first day the annual RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest.
The purpose of the contest is to showcase the best and the brightest in new security technology innovations. Out of the hundreds of organizations that applied, 10 finalists have been selected to present their technologies at the contest, demonstrating their technologies in booths and explaining it to judges who will select the ultimate winner.
The ten vendors selected as finalists by the RSAC judges span a range of different technologies, such as API security, fraud prevention, secure asset management, threat detection, cloud security and privacy protection.
- Arkose Labs
- Axonius
- Capsule8
- CloudKnox Security
- DistruptOps
- Duality Technologies
- Eclypsium
- Salt Security
- ShiftLeft
- WireWheel
Arkose Labs
Founded: 2015
Funding: $14.5M
Innovation: Advanced fraud protection
Arkose Labs is in the business of helping organizations prevent fraud. The company’s platform includes capabilities to limit the risk of fraud from multiple attack vectors such as account takeovers, fake ratings and spam. Additionally, the platform provides protection against scraping attacks that aim to steal content from a business.
Axonius
Founded: June 2017
Funding: $17M
Innovation: Cybersecurity asset management
Axonius aims to solve the the challenge of asset management for cybersecurity. The company’s core platform is aptly named the Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform and gives organizations a view of all the devices in an environment. They system provides asset inventory and classification, as well as visibility to help administrators when it comes time to handle patch management.
Capsule8
Founded: October 2016
Funding: $23.5M
Innovation: Zero-Day exploit detection
Capsule8 develops a technology platform that provides exploit detection for both known and unknown threats. The Capsule8 technology is well suited as a container security solution, but the company’s aspirations are larger, aiming to provide real-time protection for any type of workload running on a Linux system, be it bare metal, virtual machine or container.
See eSecurityPlanet’s product overview and analysis of Capsule8
CloudKnox Security
Founded: September 2015
Funding: $10.8M
Innovation: Hybrid cloud identity authorization technology
Managing identity across on-premises and multi-cloud environments is no easy task today, but that’s the challenge that CloudKnox Security is looking solve. The startup’s platform offers an activity-based authorization platform that can help organizations manage identity, for both human and system-level users.
DisruptOps
Founded: 2014
Funding: $2.5M
Innovation: Cloud security controls for DevOps
Cloud providers already include multiple types of security controls, but how can an organization make sure that their deployments aren’t stepping out of bounds? The answer, according to startup DisruptOps, is to have Guardrails, an approach the company has implemented to provide insight into cloud controls and how they are being used.
Duality Technologies
Founded: 2016
Funding: $4M
Innovation: Advanced data protection and encryption
Privacy is a primary concern for many organizations as they try to securely work with different types of data. The Duality SecurePlus technology keeps data encrypted and private, while still enabling organizations to analyze and collaborate on the data. Keeping personal data private is a key requirement of multiple compliance regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Eclypsium
Founded: 2017
Funding: $11M
Innovation: Firmware security protection
Eclypsium develops technology that looks to help organizations mitigate the risk of firmware and hardware layer attacks against workloads. The Eclypsium platform offers visibility into firmware and hardware assets, providing insight into potential vulnerabilities.
Salt Security
Founded: 2016
Funding: $10M
Innovation: API security
Salt Security officially launched its API Protection Platform on Jan. 29, offering organizations advanced capabilities to discover, prevent and remediate API attacks. APIs are widely used by applications and services, integrating data and different types of functionality.
ShiftLeft
Founded: 2016
Funding: $29M
Innovation: Code visibility and security
ShiftLeft is a DevOps security vendor with three core products that provide automation tools for code security. ShiftLeft Inspect is a Static Application Security (SAST) technology, while the Protect product is a runtime protection capability for application code. ShiftLeft’s Ocular is the company’s other product and makes use of a Code Property Graph (CPG) to explore code and better understand potential areas of risk.
WireWheel
Founded: December 2016
Funding: $13M
Innovation: Data privacy and protection as a service
WireWheel is another vendor seeking to help organizations protect privacy. The WireWheel approach is somewhat different than others, as it provides a data privacy and protection-as-a-service capability for managing privacy programs at large scale. Among the key differentiators of the WireWheel platform is its self-service privacy wizard that taps into preconfigured workflows and templates to enable organizations to quickly work toward privacy compliance.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at eSecurityPlanet and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
