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Abnormal Security announced the company has been named one of 10 finalists for the RSA Conference 2021 Innovation Sandbox Contest for its breakthrough cloud-native email security platform that stops modern email attacks through behavioural data science. On May 19, Abnormal Security will present its email security platform to a panel of renowned industry judges and a live virtual audience in a three-minute pitch, competing for the coveted title of “Most Innovative Start-Up” at RSA Conference 2021. Behavioural data science Abnormal Security delivers a fundamentally different approach to stopping email attacks that are undetectable Abnormal Security delivers a fundamentally different approach to stopping novel, sophisticated email attacks that are undetectable by legacy secure email gateways. Through one-click API integration with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, the Abnormal platform uniquely leverages behavioural data science to profile and baseline good behavior to detect anomalies and compromised accounts. The Abnormal AI threat detection engine models the identity of both employees and external senders creates relationship graphs and analyses email content to effectively stop targeted socially-engineered attacks. AI-powered detection “Secure email gateways miss advanced email attacks because they lack the typical threat intelligence signals, such as bad reputation, suspicious links, or malicious attachments,” said Evan Reiser, CEO, and co-founder of Abnormal Security. “Our AI-powered detection requires no configuration and delivers results immediately after integration, to block the most sophisticated, targeted, never-before-seen email attacks. Abnormal is serving some of the largest global enterprises and we look forward to the opportunity to show the Innovation Sandbox audience how we uniquely protect them from Business Email Compromise and other targeted email attacks.” RSAC Innovation Sandbox We look forward to hearing about innovative ideas that are sure to combat tomorrow’s cybersecurity threats" Since 2005, the RSAC Innovation Sandbox has served as a platform for the boldest young cybersecurity companies to showcase their groundbreaking technologies and compete for the title of “Most Innovative Startup.” The competition is widely recognised as a catapult for success, as the top 10 finalists have collectively seen over 50 acquisitions and $8.2 billion in funding since the start of the contest. “We are happy to welcome the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest finalists to our virtual stage and we look forward to hearing about their innovative ideas that are sure to combat tomorrow’s cybersecurity threats,” said Linda Gray Martin, Vice President, RSA Conference. Impact in cybersecurity  “For the last 16 years, RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest finalists have gone on to make significant impacts on the world of cybersecurity. We are confident that this year’s finalists will continue the trend with their thought-provoking approaches and will make a lasting impact on the industry.” The RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest kicks off on May 19 at 9:20 AM PT and winners will be announced at 10:45 AM PT that same day. Hugh Thompson, Program Committee Chair of the RSA Conference, will return to host the contest. The renowned panel of expert judges includes Dorit Dor, VP Products, Check Point Software Technologies; Niloo Howe, Principal and Founder, Razi Ventures; Paul Kocher, Security Researcher, and Entrepreneur; Shlomo Kramer, Co-founder, and CEO, Cato Networks; and Christopher Young, Executive Vice President, Microsoft.

Argon, a new security startup securing the modern software delivery process, emerges from stealth mode as the first unified security solution that protects all stages of the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and ensures the integrity of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). “The massive effect of the SolarWinds’ IT management software breach that began when hackers compromised one of its software updates, signalled the birth of a new cyberattack surface that organisations are not equipped to defend,” said Eilon Elhadad, CEO, Argon. Strong security posture “Our solution provides full visibility into the development environment and protects our customers from bad actors who seek to plant malicious code or tamper with the native behaviour and uptime of the applications.” Automated software delivery through a CI/CD pipeline process offers application developers a fast and efficient way to develop, build, test, and deploy new software. The CI/CD pipelines use a series of cloud and hosted services and open-source tools which open the organisation’s network to new environments where the source code is copied, moved, and shared. Maintaining a strong security posture in a cloud-native environment requires security and DevOps personnel to have full visibility over the entire environment to mitigate risk. Code-tampering detection technology Argon seamlessly connects to the existing CI/CD pipelines via an agentless implementation and instantly maps the development environment, assets, and user activities. The solution prioritises and automates remediation of alerts according to security best practices and compliance rules, ensuring zero trust deployment. Argon’s code-tampering detection technology performs validity checks on every step of the CI/CD process to confirm no tampering has occurred. “The way companies release software has evolved from a manual, controlled, and timed process to one that is fully automated, distributed, and complex,” said Eylam Milner, CTO, Argon. “Vendors deploy new code on a daily basis, and it’s irrational for them to expect their DevOps and security teams to protect their release pipelines without a dedicated solution.” Accelerating development processes Elhadad and Milner are both former leaders of security and engineering teams in the Israeli military. Eran Orzel, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) has over 20 years of experience in sales leadership roles in cybersecurity and enterprise software. Prior to joining Argon, Eran held several roles at Check Point Software Technologies, most recently as the Global Head of Strategic Sales and Partnerships where he led and played a significant role in the rapid growth of Check Point’s major business growth engines. “Companies are accelerating the development processes using DevOps pipeline infrastructures and the trend is at its peak,” said Orzel. “Consequently, the threats are growing stronger than ever, with dozens of incidents from code theft to code manipulation in the last six months alone.” Argon is launching with 15 employees after raising more than $4 million (USD) in initial funding led by Hyperwise Ventures. Software-driven companies “Bad actors are exploiting new weaknesses in the modern software delivery pipeline to gain access, leak data, and tamper with the product’s source code,” said Nathan Shuchami, Managing partner at Hyperwise Ventures. “Argon has developed an innovative solution that software-driven companies need in order to block those attacks and secure their customers and products.” Several high-profile cybersecurity angel investors have joined Hyperwise Ventures, including Shlomo Kramer, the founder of Check Point, Imperva, and Cato Networks; Zohar Alon, Founder of Dome9; Giora Yaron, chairman of Amdocs Technology Committee; Avery More, managing partner of ORR Partners; and Harel Kodesh, a former partner at Silver Lake.