K2 claims victory over zero-day attacks

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Silicon Valley based K2 Cyber Security has emerged from stealth mode with a technology that prevents zero-day attacks by monitoring app performance in the cloud. Zero-day attacks exploit an unknown weakness in enterprise systems, making them very difficult to prevent and can generate many false alerts. Traditional approaches to CFI have relied on pinpointing potential malicious actions -- which can be nearly infinite in combination -- making detection hit and miss. K2s approach is to focus on monitoring only the execution of the application as it was designed and validating the actions based on its one-time analysis of the app. Medhani says that K2s technology might also find a use in helping developers create highly secure apps by using the execution map to plug any potential problems in softwares performance.

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K2

$50M to $100M