{"id":14610,"date":"2021-05-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/11\/crowdsec-raises-5m-to-transform-the-global-communications-landscape-with-a-collaborative-solution\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T08:30:00","slug":"crowdsec-raises-5m-to-transform-the-global-communications-landscape-with-a-collaborative-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/11\/crowdsec-raises-5m-to-transform-the-global-communications-landscape-with-a-collaborative-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"CrowdSec raises $5M to transform the global communications landscape with a collaborative solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               The power of Open Source innovation ensures that the worldwide internetworked community can now maintain its own safety                            <\/p>\n<p>PARIS, FRANCE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 11 May 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowdsec.net\/\">CrowdSec<\/a>, which puts online security into the hands of users themselves&#13;<br \/>\nand has already helped\u00a0to identify hundreds of thousands of malicious IP&#13;<br \/>\naddresses worldwide, has announced a US$5 million round of seed investment from&#13;<br \/>\nEuropean VC <a href=\"https:\/\/breega.com\/\">Breega<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/149478\/CrowdSec-China-strategy.jpeg#image-149478\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Making the internet a safer place, and empowering everyone with a&#13;<br \/>\nrock-solid, free, first line of defense, whether they are individuals,&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutions, SMBs or larger companies is the mission of European start-up&#13;<br \/>\nCrowdSec, who is aiming to rethink cybersecurity by creating a collaborative&#13;<br \/>\nendpoint detection and response (EDR) system, empowering a novel open-source strategy&#13;<br \/>\nto combat attacks on any network, anywhere. This new round of funding will&#13;<br \/>\nallow the company to expand its global community of users and contributors, including&#13;<br \/>\nin China and Asia, to enhance its functionality, and to recruit new talents to&#13;<br \/>\nfuel its expansion.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Collaboration and global focus are&#13;<br \/>\nkeys to CrowdSec&#8217;s open-source approach, as outlined by Philippe Humeau, CEO&#13;<br \/>\nand co-founder, CrowdSec. &#8220;Every year, states, banks, businesses and&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutions spend billions of dollars to protect themselves&#8221;, Humeau&#13;<br \/>\ncommented. &#8220;They are nevertheless hacked by groups with much lesser means. This&#13;<br \/>\ncyberwar is asymmetrically favorable to hackers, who benefit from time, use&#13;<br \/>\nstolen resources and mainly open-source software, and face increasingly&#13;<br \/>\nfragmented and permeable perimeters, including Cloud drives, SaaS, VMs, containers,&#13;<br \/>\nand VPNs. Our goal is to rebalance the cyber-security game by creating&#13;<br \/>\ninnovative, free and collaborative software in order to fight, together,&#13;<br \/>\nhacking on a global scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>This is an approach that suits the&#13;<br \/>\nEurope-based CrowdSec, where the business community is diverse and steeped in a&#13;<br \/>\nrugged individualism developed over centuries. At the heart of CrowdSec is an&#13;<br \/>\nindependent, open culture that is founded upon its collaborative inclusivity. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>China and global growth <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Open source code has been an essential for the rapid growth of&#13;<br \/>\nChina&#8217;s tech sector and today China is one of the biggest consumers and&#13;<br \/>\ncontributors of of open source technology. China tech companies such as JD.com,&#13;<br \/>\nthe world&#8217;s third largest internet company by revenue, were early adopters and&#13;<br \/>\nit is this pioneering spirt that has attracted CrowdSec to expand its footprint&#13;<br \/>\nin China. Through close collaboration with the open source community in China,&#13;<br \/>\nCrowdSec is seeking to assist the worldwide internetworked community to now&#13;<br \/>\nmaintain its own safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>CrowdSec&#8217;s team is expected to grow&#13;<br \/>\nwithin 18 months. Launched in December 2020, its solution has already been&#13;<br \/>\nadopted in more than 90 countries, with a very rapid acceleration of the daily&#13;<br \/>\nadoption rate. CrowdSec&#8217;s vision is international in scope and extends across&#13;<br \/>\nall continents, including Asia and Greater China. As part of this growth,&#13;<br \/>\nCrowdSec is the process of reaching out to key open-source influencers in China&#13;<br \/>\nand other parts of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The company is currently in&#13;<br \/>\ndiscussions with large customers, hosting companies, cloud makers and private&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies globally. It will officially launch its commercial offering later&#13;<br \/>\nthis year, but will remain entirely free for its community. It has already&#13;<br \/>\nreported several hundred thousand IP addresses as dangerous.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>The arrival of the largest real-time map of hacking\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;bad guys&#8217; of the IT world, the hackers hidden on the &#8216;Dark&#13;<br \/>\nWeb&#8217; and elsewhere, use the IP addresses of machines they compromised to&#13;<br \/>\nanonymously attack IT assets. CrowdSec&#8217;s open-source filtering software blocks&#13;<br \/>\nthese attacks and tracks IP addresses used against members of its community in&#13;<br \/>\norder to redistribute them and thus deactivate the attackers&#8217; strike&#13;<br \/>\ncapability.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>When a CrowdSec agent detects an attack, its report is curated by&#13;<br \/>\nthe platform and, if legitimate, shared with all users so that they can also&#13;<br \/>\nprotect themselves. This community generates, in real time, one of the largest&#13;<br \/>\nIP blocklists in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Being able to protect each other without having to trust one&#13;<br \/>\nanother is also a key benefit. When system administrators, DevOps and SecOps join&#13;<br \/>\nforces, they far outnumber hackers. CrowdSec provides them with the tool to&#13;<br \/>\nfederate. CrowdSec not only locally defends IT assets based on IP behavior, but&#13;<br \/>\nalso generates the largest real-time hacking map on the Internet. A new&#13;<br \/>\ngeneration of distributed Cyber Threat Intelligence that reshuffles the deck in&#13;<br \/>\nthe defense of Internet-exposed IT resources.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>A solution adapted to modern constraints\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Designed for modern environments, such as public clouds and&#13;<br \/>\ncontainers as well as bare-metal or virtualized architectures in enterprises,&#13;<br \/>\nCrowdSec&#8217;s software provides a strong first line of defense of unprecedented&#13;<br \/>\nefficiency and versatility. The different types of remediation offered range&#13;<br \/>\nfrom simple access prohibition to two-factor authentication, CAPTCHAs, rights&#13;<br \/>\nlimitation, transmission of information to a SIEM or to SecOps desks, for&#13;<br \/>\nexample.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>CrowdSec can block port scans, web scans, password attacks,&#13;<br \/>\nidentity theft attempts, as well as application denial of service, bots, credit&#13;<br \/>\ncard stuffing or fraud, among many other classes of attacks. By not exporting&#13;<br \/>\nlogs and collecting only the minimum amount of data (time stamp, attacking IP&#13;<br \/>\nand recorded behavior) CrowdSec complies with the European GDPR and, more&#13;<br \/>\ngenerally, respects data privacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing the culture match behind&#13;<br \/>\nthe US$5 million investment, Breega Partner and Co-Founder Maximilien Bacot&#13;<br \/>\nexplains, &#8220;Digital has become a natural extension of our lives and we&#13;<br \/>\nneed to provide an answer to the societal problem posed by mass hacking. The&#13;<br \/>\ntechniques (or trends) developed over the last 30 years have clearly failed to&#13;<br \/>\naddress this problem. So, it seems logical to us to propose a community-based&#13;<br \/>\napproach, which has already proven effective in so many other areas, yet has&#13;<br \/>\nnot been applied to cybersecurity&#8230; until now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-05-11\/77602\/crowdsec-raises-5m-to-transform-the-global-communications-landscape-with-a-collaborative-solution\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of Open Source innovation ensures that the worldwide internetworked community can now maintain its own safety PARIS, FRANCE &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 11 May 2021 &#8211; CrowdSec, which puts online security into the hands of users themselves&#13; and has already helped\u00a0to identify hundreds of thousands of malicious IP&#13; addresses worldwide, has announced a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}