What they do: Transform enterprise Big Data into actionable security insights.
Headquarters: Currently Tel Aviv, but they plan to move HQ to Silicon Valley and retain the Tel Aviv site for R&D
CEO: Idan Tendler, who previously built and led the Cyber Security Business Group of Elbit Systems
Founded: 2012
Funding: The startup just closed a $10M Series A from led by Intel Capital and Blumberg Capital. Seed/angel investors, including the Swarth Group, also participated. This brings total funding to date to $12 million.
Why they’re one of the 50: Fortscale’s mission is to turn enterprise Big Data into “User Intelligence, “making users’ profiles and behavior visible and easy to investigate. Fortscale’s solution offers enterprises a proactive, intelligence-driven approach to cyber security based on Big Data analytics to help defend against the scourge of targeted attacks and low-and-slow attacks that threaten intellectual property and financial assets.
Fortscale claims that is able to enhance SOC teams and security analysts’ capabilities to that of advanced data scientists, while leveraging their existing infrastructure and know how. Fortscale’s focus on an enterprise’s users allows security teams to gain insights about malicious or rogue users, to pinpoint high-risk user behavior, and to monitor access activity.
The goal is to produce “User Intelligence” based on extracted data from existing Big Data repositories (e.g. SIEM) by leveraging machine learning algorithms, canned reports, visualization tools, and queries. Fortscale analyzes historical log data and run peer analysis on it. The result is focusing the security analysts’ efforts on the most important events, leads and threats, enabling them to make better, faster decisions