threatER Recognized in Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for 2024
There are about 25 million private companies in the U.S. and only 4000 public companies. Getting on Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list is not an easy feat. I am proud to share that threatER was named on this year's prestigious list.
Effectively, threatER blocks and allows vetted traffic inside organizations' networks. It looks at billions of threat signals and intelligence and make data-driven and inform decisions to defend and protect digital networks and cloud infra as well as apps. In fact, threatER now blocks 28-29 billion digital threats per day on behalf of its customers. Imagine humans do this. Traditional firewalls cannot do this because of legacy architecture. Through effectively an A/B testing approach, threatER has shown to its clients the impact with and without threatER. First time clients see the data, it is disbelief. Then they look at the data, and they realize that they need to fix it and augment what they have because not all threats are being proactively defended with their existing cybersecurity security stack.
If you are curious about the size if threats that are hitting corporate networks every day, take a look below. threatER identifies and blocks close to 29 Billion digital threats each day for customers, just in the last few days. Customer can see the nature of these digital threats and what has been blocked.
Many cybersecurity solutions are prescriptive and/or reactive (i.e., let's remediate). This has played through to the end users (all of us). We bear the brunt of the aftermath. How many of us have gotten letters months after a cyber breach informing us that our PII information have been stolen or breached? At this point, it is really like "oh another letter." The letters use similar language describing what happened (prescriptive) and what "free" remediation solution exists for us ("we will offer another credit score and fraud monitoring subscription free for two years?"). It seems that the end users/consumers' data do not matter anymore. No big deal when billions of social security numbers have been breached. No big deal when multiple hospital systems, data stores of health information, and HSA accounts have been breached. We will be sent another letter and another year of "free" fraud monitoring. Meanwhile, when we call the bank or healthcare plan or social security, we are often asked to provide our SS, address, birth date, email address. Hackers and dark web have these information too 🧐 🧐. Verification processes continue to stay stagnant even in light of extremely serious and constant data breaches. As consumers, we should all be outraged.
Without more effective enforcement of customer data breaches, all we can do is to ask organizations to consider proactive cyber defense to help further reduce the probability of data breaches due to legacy systems, misconfigurations, human errors, cunning hackers, and many other structural reasons. This is one area where data, machine learning, and automation can really help.
This is why I like proactive cyber defense companies such as threatER where they augment existing cybersecurity stack but take a proactive posture to safeguard and defend the safety of customer and user data.