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Ottawa computer security Interset has attracted an undisclosed amount of investment from American venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, the organization that invests in firms and technology on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the United States.
The major news comes a little over a year after the small, 60-employee company, announced a $10-million round of financing, which it planned to use to improve its computer security technologies and expand its operations.
The investment from In-Q-Tel is a major hit in the arm for the Ottawa firm, which can now say that it has received something akin to a seal of approval from some of the world’s leading intelligence and security organizations.
“After a rigorous evaluation and due diligence process, Interset demonstrated how anomalous behaviours can be accurately surfaced and conveyed with actionable information, allowing government security experts to focus on mitigating risks and stopping attacks that may threaten our safety,” said Dale Quayle, chief executive officer at Interset in a statement released Thursday morning. “U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement communities have long sought to protect critical data with an approach that surfaces attacks faster and more accurately, in a highly contextual, proactive way.”
Originally incorporated in 2001 as GridIron Software, Interset has been bumping along various paths to the business it is today. The Ottawa company began life with a product that helped businesses leverage networked computing and eventually evolved into FileTrek Software to help manage multiple computers across a network while tracking data that might be sent to cloud computing servers.
Those earlier versions collected more than $16 million over the years, but Quayle realized that if he stripped away the noise, the company actually had a novel security product with which few others could compete.
The company’s expertise in tracking and monitoring large amounts of complex data led to a suite of security tools, which were eventually called the Interset Advanced Threat Detection Platform. The tools can be used to track an employee’s data use across large corporate networks and set off alarm bells if someone tries to tamper with sensitive files without authorization. For example, an employee who regularly accesses a certain set of files every day would be flagged if they suddenly reached out for sensitive information on the network. The alarm could signal that the employee is stealing information or that their computer has been compromised. In the case that the employee was actually authorized to access the sensitive files, an investigation by corporate IT workers could be quickly dismissed.
According to documents that were leaked online, Interset was invited to attend an In-Q-Tel hosted “CEO Summit” in February. The event has been held annually for the past 14 years and invites companies that specialize in areas of computer and network security to showcase their products in a bid to get noticed by the U.S. government. The event was attended by James Comey, director of the FBI, and Robert Work, deputy secretary of defence for the United States of America, among other prominent U.S. government officials. A total of 66 companies from the around the world were invited to attend.
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The major news comes a little over a year after the small, 60-employee company, announced a $10-million round of financing, which it planned to use to improve its computer security technologies and expand its operations.
The investment from In-Q-Tel is a major hit in the arm for the Ottawa firm, which can now say that it has received something akin to a seal of approval from some of the world’s leading intelligence and security organizations.
“After a rigorous evaluation and due diligence process, Interset demonstrated how anomalous behaviours can be accurately surfaced and conveyed with actionable information, allowing government security experts to focus on mitigating risks and stopping attacks that may threaten our safety,” said Dale Quayle, chief executive officer at Interset in a statement released Thursday morning. “U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement communities have long sought to protect critical data with an approach that surfaces attacks faster and more accurately, in a highly contextual, proactive way.”
Originally incorporated in 2001 as GridIron Software, Interset has been bumping along various paths to the business it is today. The Ottawa company began life with a product that helped businesses leverage networked computing and eventually evolved into FileTrek Software to help manage multiple computers across a network while tracking data that might be sent to cloud computing servers.
Those earlier versions collected more than $16 million over the years, but Quayle realized that if he stripped away the noise, the company actually had a novel security product with which few others could compete.
The company’s expertise in tracking and monitoring large amounts of complex data led to a suite of security tools, which were eventually called the Interset Advanced Threat Detection Platform. The tools can be used to track an employee’s data use across large corporate networks and set off alarm bells if someone tries to tamper with sensitive files without authorization. For example, an employee who regularly accesses a certain set of files every day would be flagged if they suddenly reached out for sensitive information on the network. The alarm could signal that the employee is stealing information or that their computer has been compromised. In the case that the employee was actually authorized to access the sensitive files, an investigation by corporate IT workers could be quickly dismissed.
According to documents that were leaked online, Interset was invited to attend an In-Q-Tel hosted “CEO Summit” in February. The event has been held annually for the past 14 years and invites companies that specialize in areas of computer and network security to showcase their products in a bid to get noticed by the U.S. government. The event was attended by James Comey, director of the FBI, and Robert Work, deputy secretary of defence for the United States of America, among other prominent U.S. government officials. A total of 66 companies from the around the world were invited to attend.
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