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CyberFend

Cyberfend delivers robust, real-time web and mobile security by…

AcquiredChecked 19h ago
Batch
W15
Status, per YC
Acquired
Team size
2
HQ
San Francisco, CA
In W15110 companies, 24% AI
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About CyberFend

Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks and fraudulent activity. Cyberfend's solution detects account take-over, payment fraud and the use of stolen credentials. All of these problems are relevant to every consumer facing web and mobile product/service. Cyberfend’s solution uses a new security paradigm – human cognitive science coupled with advanced machine learning. The result is a robust detection system with near zero false positives and false negatives. Today Cyberfend protects nearly a billion login and payment transactions every month for many large e-commerce, web and payment customers. Cyberfend's product is at the intersection of almost every single cutting edge technology today : a) Our core product employs heavy machine learning b) On the backed, our product is cloud based and deals with enormous scale (customers are directing significant portions of their traffic to us) c) On the front end we need to deal with both web and mobile (IOS, SDK) challenges.Please visit us at: www.cyberfend.com. Cyberfend is backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel and A Capital. Cyberfend was acquired by Akamai Technologies in December 2016.

San Francisco, CA, USA; Santa Clara, CA, USA

CyberFend: questions

Which YC batch was CyberFend in?

CyberFend was in Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch (W15).

Is CyberFend still active?

Y Combinator lists CyberFend as acquired.

Where is CyberFend based?

CyberFend lists San Francisco, CA, USA; Santa Clara, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.

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