Threat prevention firm SecLytics today announced its rebranding to Augur Security and the raising of $7 million in seed funding.
General Advance led the fresh investment round, with additional financial support received from multiple angel investors.
Founded in 2014, the San Diego, California-based company leverages AI to predict the origin of cyberattacks, and prevent them before they do harm.
Instead of reacting to cyber threats, Augur scours the internet to identify early signs of malicious intent (eg, infrastructure setup), profile attacker behavior, and create blocklists to protect customers’ environments.
According to the company, its solution can predict threats an average of 51 days before attacks occur, with near-zero false positives.
Augur says its solution integrates with an organization’s existing stack, including EDR, firewalls, SIEM, and SOAR, to deliver actionable intelligence for automatic enforcement, while providing security teams with full control.
The company says its solution is already used by energy, financial, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and telecommunications companies.
Augur will use the new investment to expand and for the development of its AI-powered threat prevention platform.
“Our platform has refined a decade of machine learning, behavioral research, and real-world threat telemetry into a continuously evolving knowledge base of adversary behavior. This comprehensive dataset empowers Augur to predict, detect, and disrupt threats with unparalleled accuracy,” Augur CEO Joe Lea said.
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