Mu Security Lands $10M
Summary
Early customer acceptance of Mus approach to operationalizing security by large enterprises, service providers, product hardware or software developers and government agencies has accelerated this Series B round of funding. Coinciding with todays funding is the appointment of Amnon Landan, 2003 Forbes Entrepreneur of the Year and former chairman and CEO of Mercury Interactive, to Mu Securitys board of directors. Prior to joining Mu Security, Geiger was a senior director of product delivery at Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC), managing the development of the companys intrusion protection solutions. One of the significant features of the Mu Security Analyzer is ethical attack mutations based on a patent-pending methodology called Protocol Spidering(TM). This methodology generates millions of highly targeted permutations of improper or illegal protocol behaviors allowing customers to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities and robustness problems.