Anti-threat intelligence company GreyNoise Intelligence has bagged $4.8m in its seed round.
CRV served as the lead investor, with commitments also coming from Paladin Capital Group and several individual tech investors.
In-Q-Tel, an American not-for-profit venture capital firm, recently became a strategic investor and partner of GreyNoise. Through the partnership, GreyNoise hopes to accelerate the development of its product roadmap.
GreyNoise helps security operations centre teams improve their analytics efficiency, identify compromised devices and understand emerging threats by giving them unique visibility into “internet noise.”
Security teams can prioritise alerts through unique context on internet noise. The context comes from an internet-wide sensor network, which collects packets from hundreds of thousands of Ips seen scanning the internet every day, as well as the monitoring of common internet business services.
It claims to have analysed around three million IP addresses in the past 90 days.
GreyNoise founder and CEO Andrew Morris said, “Security analysts are overwhelmed with alerts. Every machine connected to the internet is exposed to a constant barrage of scans, web crawls, probes and attacks from tens of thousands of unique IP addresses per day.
“This ‘internet noise’ is generated by both good guys and bad guys, and it triggers security tools to generate thousands of events to be analysed, with little context on the potential threats. Analysts waste hours differentiating between targeted attack traffic and background noise alerts.”
It claims to have grown its community to more than 12,000 accounts and over 1,000 active daily users.
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