• GoSecure

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2016

  GoSecure provides an integrated Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform that combines endpoint, network, and email threat detection with behavioral analysis, memory forensics, machine learning, and reputational techniques. The platform delivers predictive multi-vector detection, prevention, and response, and the company reports detecting and mitigating threats on average in less than 15 minutes. Since launching as CounterTack in 2012, GoSecure has acquired several companies and grown to about 200 employees with country headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, and San Diego, California. Management says the company continues to add new customers at the highest rate in its history and that growth accelerated prior to the COVID-19 pandemic has continued as organizations adopt a more mobile workforce. Future plans emphasized by management and investors focus on increasing awareness and adoption of GoSecure's MDR approach and going to market at full speed. Financially, the company recently closed an oversubscribed $35M Series E growth round. CounterTack is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based provider of behavior- and memory-based Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology. Led by CEO Neal Creighton, the company offers an Endpoint Threat Platform (ETP) that supplies threat context, organizational resiliency, and broad visibility to mitigate endpoint risk and reduce the impact of advanced attacks in real time. CounterTack delivers its endpoint security solutions to over 250 customers globally. The company received an investment from NTT Docomo Ventures and intends to use the funds to continue to grow globally. The article does not disclose the amount or specific instrument of the investment. CounterTack offers a behavior- and memory-based Endpoint Threat Platform (ETP) that combines behavioral analysis, machine learning, and reputational techniques to detect and remediate advanced threats. The company is building its ETP on the SAP HANA in-memory analytics platform and incorporates Smart Data Streaming, machine learning, predictive analysis, natural language processing, and graph features. CounterTack says this architecture enables rapid ingestion of huge volumes of data and full-fidelity data persistence to provide situational awareness for security analysts. It announced a strategic partnership with SAP NS2 to deliver full-spectrum, highly scalable endpoint security to enterprise and government customers and to bolster ETP deployments at enterprise scale. CounterTack is investing in future capabilities to add detection algorithms, improve performance, and increase deployment flexibility on premise or in the cloud. Financially, the company recently announced a $20 million Series D growth financing and reports delivering its technology to over 250 customers globally. CounterTack sells behaviorally-based EDR technology—notably its Sentinel continuous monitoring and threat response platform and the Digital DNA (DDNA) in-memory binary analysis engine. The company emphasizes predictive, behavior-based detection combined with binary analysis to detect zero-days, rootkits, targeted malware and advanced persistent threats. CounterTack reported nearly 150% year-over-year growth in the APAC market and said over 225 customers use its solutions globally. The DDNA product licensing program has accelerated growth and has been integrated with more than five major cyber organizations. CounterTack has bolstered its Federal presence with the appointment of Matthew Addington and plans to accelerate hiring while unveiling multiple strategic initiatives and a major partner to scale its U.S. Federal business over the next six months. CounterTack builds the Sentinel platform, a real-time Big Data endpoint detection and response solution that provides visibility, forensic analysis, threat visualization and automated response across enterprise endpoints. The platform uses tamper-resistant collection for behavioral capture on laptops, servers, workstations and mobile devices to detect advanced, persistent threats at scale. CounterTack sells to enterprise and SMB customers and distributes via strategic MSSP partnerships. The company has reported strong growth, citing 300% year-over-year Q1 growth from 2014 to 2015. The new funding is intended to support an accelerated go-to-market strategy and further global expansion, including plans for Asian growth mentioned by investor EDBI. CounterTack positions its Big Data architecture as a scalable alternative to SQL-based detection approaches for enterprise security teams.

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