Avanan, a startup that protects organizations cloud applications from cyberattacks, announced Monday that it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round. The company’s platform integrates multiple security vendors and lets customers choose which solutions they want to protect their software-as-a-service (SaaS) business apps. The company deploys the customers’ selected security solutions, from names like McAfee, Symantec and Check Point, via the cloud. The offering is meant to provide organizations with protection from online trickery in a world where phishing attacks have spilled beyond email into work organization services like Slack, Google’s G Suite, Microsoft Office 365, Box and others. The platform protects customers from “phishing attacks, malicious content, data leakage, account takeover and more,” the company says. “Companies that use SaaS-based email and collaboration platforms quickly realize that hackers find ways to bypass their security,” said Avanan CEO and co-founder Gil Friedrich in press release. “By connecting directly to […]
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