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CyberFend

Cyberfend delivers robust, real-time web and mobile security by…

Acquired

About

Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks and fraudulent activity. Cyberfend's solution detects account take-over, payment fraud and the use of stolen credentials. All of these problems are relevant to every consumer facing web and mobile product/service.

Cyberfend’s solution uses a new security paradigm – human cognitive science coupled with advanced machine learning. The result is a robust detection system with near zero false positives and false negatives. Today Cyberfend protects nearly a billion login and payment transactions every month for many large e-commerce, web and payment customers.

Cyberfend's product is at the intersection of almost every single cutting edge technology today : a) Our core product employs heavy machine learning b) On the backed, our product is cloud based and deals with enormous scale (customers are directing significant portions of their traffic to us) c) On the front end we need to deal with both web and mobile (IOS, SDK) challenges.Please visit us at: www.cyberfend.com.

Cyberfend is backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel and A Capital.

Cyberfend was acquired by Akamai Technologies in December 2016.

Topics

CybersecurityFraud PreventionB2BSecurity
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Team size
2 employees
YC batch
Winter 2015
Status
Acquired
Stage
Early stage

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Questions and answers

What does CyberFend do?

Cyberfend delivers robust, real-time web and mobile security by…

Where is CyberFend based?

San Francisco, CA, United States

How many people work at CyberFend?

2 employees, according to the company profile.

Has CyberFend raised money?

There are no funding rounds for CyberFend in our data.

What are the alternatives to CyberFend?

Similar startups: Overwatch, TRM Labs, and Salt Security.