StopTheHacker Announces Initial Funding Round

Public and private investors including an early-stage venture capital firm Runa Capital and Brian NeSmith, former CEO of Bluecoat, have invested $1.1M in StopTheHacker. StopTheHacker's suite of website healthcare services helps catch more malware than other solutions on the market, using Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.

Constantly monitoring new strains of malware to build a profile of emerging threats, based on four years of research at the University of California, Riverside, and originally funded by the National Science Foundation, StopTheHacker's AI-based engine has self-adapting capabilities. This allows StopTheHacker's services to identify zero-day attacks originating from never-before-identified malware. Requiring no specialized personnel, hardware or software installations, their SaaS (News - Alert) model is streamlined, cost-effective and efficient.

“With the number of web servers growing rapidly, there is a corresponding escalation in expert and inexpert hackers' attempts to capitalize on website vulnerabilities. The problem is extraordinarily widespread. The impact on brand, reputation and customer retention represents a serious expense for cloud-based and online businesses," said Peter Jensen, CEO of StopTheHacker. "By partnering with StopTheHacker, Web-hosters and service providers can reduce support and data center costs, caused by hacker attempts, and main a more secure infrastructure for their customers.”

When it comes to malware on websites and other types of online abuse, StopTheHacker's proprietary, patent-pending technology helps solve web-scale security problems. StopTheHacker allows organizations of all sizes to automatically prevent, detect, and recover from hackers and malware attacks. With new commercial partners worldwide and development of its product offerings, the funding will help propel StopTheHacker's marketing and sales efforts, its engagements.

Recently, the company announced that it partnered with PacificHost to integrate PacificHost services with services offered by StopTheHacker to protect the online reputation of websites and e-businesses. Clients will have the ability to enable features to protect them from being blacklisted or hacked. The service also monitors the website reputation daily to ensure the websites position in major search engines such as Google (News - Alert).