Zimperium
| Private | |
| Industry | Mobile Security |
| Genre | Mobile Defense |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder | Itzhak "Zuk" Avraham and Elia Yehuda |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Israel, USA |
Key people | Kevin Mitnick, Itzhak "Zuk" Avraham, Stephen Northcutt, Elia Yehuda |
| Products | Mobile IPS (zIPS), Mobile Diagnostics (zANTI), Mobile UTM (zCONSOLE) |
| Website | https://www.zimperium.com/ |
Zimperium is a privately owned mobile security start-up based in San Francisco, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel. The company was founded in 2010 by CEO Itzhak "Zuk" Avraham and CTO Elia Yehuda.
Solutions and products include zIPS, zCONSOLE and zANTI.
The company has raised over $20M from private investors including Samsung, Telstra, Sierra Ventures and Stephen Northcutt.[1][2]
Milestones and awards
- October 2010: ZIMPERIUM founded, originally as a consulting company specializing in smart device security.
- July 2011: ANTI (Android Network Toolkit), later renamed ZANTI, Android-based penetration testing framework launched at Blackhat/Defcon, Las Vegas, NV.[3]
- April 2012: Alpha of zDefender (later renamed to ZIPS), launched at Demo Spring, Santa Clara, CA.
- April 2012: Venture Beat selects ZIMPERIUM as one of the top 5 Israeli startups.[4]
- July 2012: Kevin Mitnick joins the company as an active advisory board member[5]
- September 2012: ZANTI receives PCMagazine’s Editor’s Choice award[6]
- October 2012: ZIMPERIUM wins first prize, Israel’s prestigious "Startup of the Year" 2013[7]
- February 2013: ZIMPERIUM reveals the world's first Mobile IPS (Mobile Intrusion Prevention System) at Mobile World Congress 2013, Barcelona, Spain[8]
- January 2014: ZIMPERIUM Mobile IPS (zIPS) is available as general availability for businesses. According to MIT Technology Review, zIPS use Machine Learning to learn and detect attacks completely in user-mode.[9]
Technology and additional information
- Mobile Diagnostics Toolkit (zANTI) is used by over 180,000. Mostly used by professional users: IT Managers and Penetration Testers[10]
- zIPS – Mobile IPS (Network): Is the first tool to prevent network attacks completely in user-mode without root permissions. The technology behind zIPS Network IPS invented by ZIMPERIUM and is known as Non-Intrusive-Packet-Monitoring technique [11]
- zIPS – Mobile IPS (Host): Technology does not rely on signatures database.[12] zIPS is the first security tool to detect threats such as Download-and-execute payloads outside of its own sandbox using artificial intelligence, completely in user-mode[13] without system permissions [14]
See also
References
- ↑ Archived April 26, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Zimperium Raises $8M For Mobile Security That Turns The Tables On Attackers". TechCrunch. 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ "Android App Turns Smartphones Into Mobile Hacking Machines". Forbes. 2011-05-08. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ Matt Marshall (2012-04-16). "35 Israeli startups - making virtual SIM cards, emotion-sensing bracelets, and more | VentureBeat". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ Mohit Kumar (2012-07-19). "Kevin Mitnick joins the Zimperium team". Thehackernews.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ Lynn, Samara. "Anti-Android Network Toolkit Review & Rating". PCMag.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ "הציוץ שהוביל לזכייה בתחרות הסטארט-אפים". Calcalist.co.il. 1995-06-20. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ Storm, Darlene (2013-02-26). "World’s first on-device mobile intrusion prevention system | Computerworld". Blogs.computerworld.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ Metz, Rachel (2014-01-23). "App Pays Attention to Phone’s Behavior to Spot New Malware | MIT Technology Review". Technologyreview.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ Archived February 1, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Velazco, Chris (2014-01-23). "Android app learns from your phone to fend off malicious attacks". Engadget.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ Ellen Messmer (2014-01-23). "Three security startups you should keep an eye on". Network World. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑
- ↑ "Android app claims to use artificial intelligence to fight cyber threats". The Inquirer. 2014-01-24. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
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