Skycure — the Israeli developer of the platform for prevention of threats to mobile devices. The company offers technology which allows to protect mobile networks from cyber attacks by means of monitoring and the analysis of network traffic regarding suspicious activity.
Skycure is founded in 2012 by two former employees of division 8200 of Israel Defense Forces which is engaged in radio-electronic investigation. In five years from the moment of the basis the startup attracted 27.5 million dollars of investments.
2017: Symantec buys Skycure
In July, 2017 Symantec announced acquisition of the Israeli startup of Skycure. The cost of the transaction does not reveal, however, according to analysts, it can reach 200 million dollars.[1]
Symantec stated that it plans Skycure prevratitresheniye in a component of the Integrated platform of cyber defense (Integrated Cyber Defense Platform) thanks to what users of products of Symantec will get "access to full-function, effective remedies of protection of endpoynt — as on traditional, and mobile devices".
In addition, Symantec will be able to be positioned as the strategic partner of telecommunication companies, first of all, cellular operators providing protection of end devices of their clients.
 | Our investments in this area will provide deeply echelon cross-platform protection including for the closed operating systems — the chief executive of Symantec Greg Clark reported.[2] |  |
The company intends to distribute the protective offers and to the IOS platform. In the message of Symantec it is specified that lately researchers of the company detected more than 600 new vulnerabilities in iOS and Android and that the number of the revealed mobile malware reached 18.4 million pieces.
| | Attempts to be fixed in mobile communications market for system providers of protection against cyberthreats is and logical, and sharply necessary step — Ksenia Shilak, the sales director of SEC Consult company says. — Mobile devices became an integral part of the world IT infrastructure, the Android operating system overtook on prevalence of the former indisputable leader of Microsoft Windows. At the same time, mobile devices become a key channel of distribution of cyberthreats. Therefore, certainly, vendors of means of IT security need sharply to provide protection and the mobile sector too. The problem is that this sector is rather poorly monetized. | |
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