With new security vulnerabilities born everyday, security professionals try in vain to continuously assess, identify and remediate threat exposure - before critical business applications are compromised. As a result, security officers must discover new ways to improve business continuity, eliminate service disruptions and proactively locate and prioritize problems before they become serious breaches. A proactive and continuous approach is the only way organizations can measure and improve their network security posture.
The Beginning
Founded in 2002 and started selling Skybox View from February 2004.
The Executive Team
David F. Batista, President and Chief Executive Office Gidi Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer Ed Cooper, Vice President, World Wide Marketing Avi Corfas, Vice President and Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa Ed Greene, Vice President, Sales, North America Ran Harpaz, Vice President, Professional Services Moshe Meiseles, CTO and Vice President R&D Michael Morgan, Chief Financial Officer Kevin Ryan, Vice President, Business Development
The Info Security Products Portfolio
Skybox View Suite supports two major applications: Skybox Secure™ and Skybox Assure™
"Organizations stand to gain with Skybox View which can help to proactively measure the relative strengths and weaknesses of each layer of security as well as network access rules. This can enable organizations to plan well in advance on security enhancements and protect against impending attacks."
Rick Justice, Chief Editor
What makes Skybox Security, Inc. Info Security "Hot Company" 2006
Products & Technologies
Skybox® Security pioneered the science of quantifiable security risk analysis and is driving the advancement of the Security Risk Management (SRM) market.
With Security Risk Management security officers can discover new ways to improve business continuity, eliminate service disruptions and proactively locate and prioritize problems before they become serious breaches.
Skybox View is the first and only software solution to create a virtual model of an organization's network security profile in context with business needs - transforming security from misunderstood to measurable Reduction of Risk and ROI.
Skybox View brings “The Power of Virtual Modeling” to the Security Market with Patent-Pending Technology:
Skybox View creates a virtual model of an organization’s network. Within the virtual environment of the model, the network can be safely attacked and network access analyzed. Customers refer to this as “Skyboxing it.”
Skybox View collects infrastructure and security device configurations and vulnerability scans, incorporates dollar values of critical assets and maps all dependencies. This unique virtual model runs attack simulations, “what-ifs” and analyzes the business impact of penetrations and changes - enabling continuous risk assessment not possible on a live network.
Skybox View virtual modeling reveals the top 1-2 per cent of vulnerabilities that affect critical business applications, whether the source of attack comes from within or from the outside. Because Skybox View automates the entire risk management process from network discovery and vulnerability assessment to risk analysis and remediation planning - and leverages existing investments in firewalls, vulnerability scanners and management frameworks – it helps companies realize ROI in weeks.
When the one to two per cent of critical vulnerabilities have been identified that must be acted on now to ensure that digital assets are protected, security teams can be deployed in the most efficient manner. By using Skybox View for remediation planning, businesses can use what-if scenarios to visualize the effect of one remediation option over another - such as applying patches versus changing network access - and choose the optimal set for the organization.
By integrating best practice security and business impact risk metrics, Skybox View enables companies to quantify and analyze the potential damage of any threat in a business context and implement appropriate safeguards. Using powerful reports, business and security teams can collaborate to prioritize security remediation projects, reducing overall risk of exposure and improving the effectiveness of network security. This allows security, technology and business teams to use common language and meaningful metrics to communicate the real risk index of the organization.
People & Investors
Highly respected BOD candidates including Robert Thomas, former CEO of NetScreen (sold to Juniper) and David Batista, former Check Point and Zone Labs executive as Skybox’s CEO.
Skybox has raised $21 million in venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Mofet Technology Fund.
Performance & Growth
Over 60 deployments by some of the largest and most respected organizations in the world including eTrade, Lehman Brothers, Barclay’s Capital, FSA, and Cisco; 10-15 large customers being added quarterly.
Selected for 6 major security technology awards within 12 months of product release: Information Security Magazine product of the year; Network Magazine – Most Visionary Security Product; Network Magazine - Best of the Best in all categories; Secure Enterprise Magazine – Editor’s Choice; Wall Street Journal 2005 Innovation Award runner-up; IM Award finalist.
Sales revenue was $10M run rate within 12 months of product release.
Potential and Strategies
By automating the labor-intensive risk assessment, threat analysis, mitigation planning, and change assurance processes, customers achieve exponential ROI.
Security service companies building consulting businesses solely based on Skybox IT SRM technologies and processes.
Customers are also finding new ways to leverage the power of virtual modeling, and are proactively applying Skybox View’s unique technology to the network change management process in addition to other operations functions.
Skybox Security, Inc.
2077 Gateway Place, Suite 550
San Jose, California 95110 USA
Toll Free : 866-6SKYBOX
Tel: 408 441-8060
www.skyboxsecurity.com
