GuardiCore Honored as Gold Winner in Deception Based Security in the 9th Annual 2017 Golden Bridge Awards

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Golden Bridge Awards Selects GuardiCore’s Centra Security Platform as The Leader In Deception Based Security Category

San Francisco, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel – GuardiCore, a leader in data center and cloud security, today announced that it has earned the prestigious Gold status in the Golden Bridge Awards for their GuardiCore Centra Security Platform. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, innovations, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, best deployments, product management, public relations, marketing, corporate communications, international business, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups.

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Highlights from Black Hat & DEFCON

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I spent the last week at the “Hacker Summer Camp” of Black Hat and DEFCON. Besides meeting people and enjoying the dual craziness of the DEFCON crowd and the Black Hat business hall, we also gave a well received lecture – Escalating Insider Threats using VMWare’s API. Ofri Ziv, Head of GuardiCore labs, presented a backdoor we discovered in VMware’s remote administration API, enabling vSphere users to quickly and easily take over guest machines without providing guest credentials

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GuardiCore Extends Series B Funding Round to $35 Million Adding TPG Growth as a New Investor

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Funding to Accelerate Growth in Large Enterprise Accounts and Expand Further into Global Markets

San Francisco, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel – GuardiCore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that the company has raised an additional $15 million as an extension to its Series B funding round. This brings the company’s total funding raised to date to $48 million. The additional investment was led by TPG Growth, the middle market growth equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, and Greenfield Partners, a TPG-Growth backed company based in Israel that focuses on investing in early growth-stage global technology and tech-enabled businesses. Existing investors include Battery Ventures, 83North, Cisco Investments and Dell Technologies Capital.

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