The 10 most noteworthy cloud security startups of the 2014

1. Bitium

Business direction: Provides management of cloud applications, single sign-on and analysis tools.

Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA

Company website: <https://www.bitium.com/>

Person in charge: Scott Kriz, former vice president of the Fastpoint gaming company. Fastpoint was WePlay acquired in 2012.

Establishment Date: 2012

Fund: 2.4 Million USD for seed fund. Investors are resolute VC, Double M, Social leverage and Karlin ventures.

2. Bitsight Technologies

Business direction: Provide information security assessment services. Help companies and institutions assess the risks of partners, product supply chains, and outsourced services.

Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Company website: http://www.bitsighttech.com/

Person in charge: Shaun McConnon, former CEO of Q1 Lab

Establishment Date: 2011

Fund: June 2013, bitsight financing 24 million dollars.

3. CipherCloud

Business direction: Provides a platform of unified cloud information homeowner.

Headquarters: San Hexi, CA

Company website: <http://www.ciphercloud.com/>

Person in charge: Pravin Kothari, former founder of ArcSight. ArcSight sold HP for 1.5 billion dollars.

Date of Establishment: 2010

Capital: The famous investment organization Andreessen Horowitz invested 30 million dollars.

4. HyTrust

Business direction: Research and development of virtualization system security tools. Enterprise It can be used to enhance security management for virtualized systems and cloud infrastructures.

Headquarters: Mountain View City, California.

Company website: <http://www.hytrust.com/>

Person in charge: John De Santis as CEO. Eric Chiu is the founder and president of the partnership. De Santis was the CEO of Tricipher. Tricipher was acquired by VMware in 2010. De Santis later served as VP of VMware's cloud services. Chiu was previously the sales and marketing VP of Cemaphore Bae Company.

Date of Establishment: 2009

Money: HyTrust 34.5 million dollars. Investment institutions are: Trident Capital, Granite Ventures, Epic Ventures. In addition, Cisco, VMware, Intel Capital, and Fortinet are also involved in the investment. In addition, In-q-tel, a non-profit investment agency with a background in the U.S. government, is among them.

5. Forgerock

Business direction: Provide certification services management solutions.

Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

Company website: <http://forgerock.com/>

Person in charge: Mike Ellis, a senior executive at SAP. He has also been a senior management position at I2 Technologies, Oracle, and Apple.

Date of Establishment: 2010

Funding: Forgerock 20 million dollars from Foundation capital and Accel.

6. Mypermissions

Business direction: Provides services to help users manage, control, and monitor access to personal information on apps and websites.

Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel

Company website: <http://mypermissions.com/>

Person in charge: Olivier Amar, former vice president of GetTaxi and Toyga Financial.

Date of Establishment: 2012

Funding: From Startups, Lool Ventures and 2B Angels, Plus Ventures and angel investor Robby Hilkowitz financed 1 million of dollars.

7. Netskope

Business direction: Provides analytical tools for cloud applications, and security management policy generation tools.

Headquarters: Los Altos, CA.

Company website: <http://www.netskope.com/>

Person in charge: Sanjay beri. Sanjay was the head of Juniper receptacle network access and mobile BU. Sanjay is also responsible for Juniper's research and development in India. Before, Sanjay founded Ingrian NX and was SafeNet acquired.

Date of Establishment: 2012

Money: Lightspeed Ventures and the Social+capital partnership invested 24 million dollars.

8. Prevoty

Business direction: Provide cloud SaaS service, manage and monitor Web application security.

Headquarters: Los Angeles, California.

Company website: <https://prevoty.com/>

Person in charge: Julien Bellanger, former founder of Personagraph.

Date of establishment: 2013

Funding: 2.4 million of dollars financed

9. Skyhigh NX

Business direction: Provides a cloud lifecycle and security suite of products that can be used to discover, analyze, and enhance the security of various cloud services.

Headquarters: Cupertino, CA.

Company website: <http://www.skyhighnetworks.com/>

Person in charge: Rajiv Gupta. Securent founder and CEO. Cisco bought 100 million dollars in 2007. Gupta subsequently served as Cisco's security Policy Management bu vp/gm.

Date of establishment: December 2011

Funds: In May 2013, Sequoia Capital and Greylock, invest 20 million U.S. dollars to do Series B round. Thus the company's total investment reached 26.5 million U.S. dollars.

SnoopWall

Business direction: Provide anti-virus "counterveillance" software, detect and prohibit remote control, and theft information activities on computers, tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices.

Headquarters: Nashua, New Hampshire State

Company website: <http://www.snoopwall.com/>

Person in charge: Gary Miliefsky. It was the founder and CTO of Netclarity.

Date of establishment: 2013

Funding: There are some angel investments that are not revealing details.