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TalonWork Recognized for Innovative Approach for Securing Hybrid Work
May 03, 2022 12:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
TEL AVIV, Israel--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Talon Cyber Security , provider of the first secure enterprise browser, today announced that it has been named one of 10 finalists for the RSA Conference 2022 Innovation Sandbox Contest for its work in helping customers better secure distributed workforces. On Monday, June 6, Talon will present its technology to a panel of renowned industry judges and a live in-person audience at RSA Conference 2022 in San Francisco. Since 2005, the RSAC Innovation Sandbox has served as a platform for the most promising young cybersecurity companies to showcase their groundbreaking technologies and compete for the title of “Most Innovative Startup.” The competition is widely recognized as a catapult for success and the top 10 finalists have collectively celebrated 69 acquisitions and received $9.8 billion in investments over the last 17 years. Talon will have three minutes to pitch the panel of judges before a question-and-answer round. “While the cybersecurity industry contends with constant changes and challenges, these bold thinkers are the changemakers we need to protect the world against new threats,” said Linda Gray Martin Vice President, RSA Conference. “For the last 17 years, RSAC Innovation Sandbox finalists have gone on to make a significant impact, and there’s no doubt that this Contest year is any different. We’re cheering on this year’s finalists to carry on the competition’s legacy with their game-changing ideas and I look forward to seeing the influence they make on the future.”
Purpose-built for the enterprise, TalonWork empowers organizations to simplify their security programs by bringing enterprise-grade security to the browser, delivering native features like identity protection, data loss prevention, zero trust controls and more. Customers leverage Talon to gain visibility into and secure SaaS applications, web activity, corporate devices and non-corporate devices. Built on Chromium, TalonWork ensures employee privacy and delivers the consistent, high-quality user experiences needed to securely power the future of work. “The legacy approach to enabling secure access to modern applications is expensive, complex and puts enterprises at risk,” said Ofer Ben-Noon, co-founder and CEO, Talon Cyber Security. “TalonWork provides a simple, seamless new first line of defense for enterprise security that drastically simplifies the technology stack. We can’t wait to show the world our solution at RSA Conference and for everyone to see how we have transformed the browser into a control point and true business enabler for security and IT teams.”
The RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest kicks off at 12:00 p.m. PT on June 6 and winners will be announced at 3:00 p.m. the same day. The panel of renowned expert judges includes Dorit Dor , Chief Product Officer at Check Point Software Technologies; Niloofar Howe , Sr. Operating Partner at Energy Impact Partners; Paul Kocher, Independent Researcher; Shlomo Kramer , Co-founder and CEO, Cato Networks; and Christopher Young, Executive Vice President of Business Development Strategy and Ventures at Microsoft. Hugh Thompson, Program Committee Chair of RSA Conference, will return to host the contest. For more information regarding RSA Conference 2022, taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from June 6-9, please visit https://www.rsaconference.com/usa . About Talon Cyber Security
Talon Cyber Security is modernizing security programs and improving user experiences for hybrid work by delivering the first secure enterprise browser. Built on Chromium, the TalonWork browser provides customers with the consistent user experiences, deep security visibility, and control over SaaS and web applications needed to simplify security for the future of work. For more information, visit Talon at https://talon-sec.com/, or connect on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. About RSA Conference
RSA Conference is the premier series of global events and year-round learning for the cybersecurity community. RSAC is where the security industry converges to discuss current and future concerns and have access to the experts, unbiased content and ideas that help enable individuals and companies advance their cybersecurity posture and build stronger and smarter teams. Both in-person and online, RSAC brings the cybersecurity industry together and empowers the collective “we” to stand against cyberthreats around the world. RSAC is the ultimate marketplace for the latest technologies and hands-on educational opportunities that help industry professionals discover how to make their companies more secure while showcasing the most enterprising, influential, and thought-provoking thinkers and leaders in cybersecurity today. For the most up-to-date news pertaining to the cybersecurity industry visit www.rsaconference.com. Where the world talks security. Contacts

Talon Cyber Security Selected as Finalist for RSA Conference 2022 Innovation Sandbox Contest

Talon Cyber Security raises $43 million to support the high demand for secure hybrid work
Talon Cyber Security announced a total funding of $43M, adding SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) investments of $17M prior to an upcoming A-Round of funding. Sorenson Ventures and Evolution Equity Partners are joining Talon’s earlier investors, venture capital firms Lightspeed and Team8, and cybersecurity leaders such as George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike , Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, Co-founders of Armis , Michael Shaulov, Co-founder & CEO of Fireblocks, Avi Shua, Co-founder & CEO of Orca Security and Assaf Rappaport, Co-founder & CEO of Wiz. In October, Talon launched the first secure browser for enterprises, TalonWork, which enables enterprise companies to effectively manage a hybrid workforce without having to compromise security, employee experience or privacy. In a few clicks, this secure bubble-like workspace can be created on any device, together with its built-in enterprise-grade security that provides advanced data leakage protection and high granularity of control into all web in-app activities. “We are thrilled to be backing a tremendous team at Talon led by Ofer Ben Noon,” said Richard Seewald, Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution. “Enterprises have shifted rapidly to distributed work models and, in the process, have complicated the security stack and altered the cost benefit analysis of legacy solutions. Talon delivers a solution that ameliorates this and enables enterprises to operate a hybrid workforce securely and effectively.”
This additional funding is focused on bringing on board top cybersecurity investors that will support Talon’s accelerated commercialization process, and further expand the development efforts to support high demand from the market. Talon’s growth is rapid, adding 45 people to the team in less than a year as well as recently opening offices in the U.S.
Talon is mitigating two of the biggest cybersecurity concerns for security leaders operating a modern distributed workforce; ransomware and insider threat. TalonWork combines advanced data isolation techniques such as screenshot prevention and clipboard restrictions with workspace security including policy enforcements and protection against browser vulnerabilities. TalonWork for Mac was recently released, expanding the coverage of Talon’s endpoint agnostic solution. It is already up and running in dozens of companies, including some of the largest employers in the U.S. In today’s modern workforce, enterprises are required to protect their resources across different locations, devices, SaaS services and employment models (ie. external workers accessing company assets). Trying to secure and control this dynamic environment has led companies to adapt existing security solutions, such as VDI/DaaS or VPN, resulting in a complex and costly security stack. Enabling secure distributed work is a business driver in industries such as retail, healthcare, tech, insurance and more. “What excites me about Talon is that their technology simplifies enterprise-grade security, which we heard consistently from customers. Compared to other approaches, the time to value combined with the depth of the solution makes this a true game-changer,” said Ken Elefant, Partner at Sorenson Ventures. Daily Newsletter - E-mail sent every business day with a recap of the last 24 hours
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Talon Cyber Security raises $43 million to support the high demand for secure hybrid work

"The transition to the cloud turns every company digital and increases the risk of cyberattacks"
Merav Bahat, Co-Founder and CEO of cybersecurity company Dazz, was speaking during a panel on the future of the cyber field alongside Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder and CEO of Salt Security, Ofer Ben Noon, Co-Founder and CEO of Talon Cyber Security, and Ety Spiegel Hubara, Co-Founder at Orca Security
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“If we examine the information security industry at large, we are dealing with two main problems: the first is finding security issues, and the second is fixing them," said Merav Bahat, Co-Founder and CEO of Dazz, during a special Calcalist panel on the future of the cyber field in 2022. Also on the panel were Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder and CEO of Salt Security, Ofer Ben Noon, Co-Founder and CEO of Talon Cyber Security and Ety Spiegel Hubara, Co-Founder of Orca Security. “Companies traditionally deploy cyber security tools that focus on finding problems and have to endure a very complex organizational process for fixing them; Most companies that are hacked were aware of the security issues that caused the breach – but couldn’t practically fix them," explained Bahat. "Before founding Dazz, I worked at Microsoft, leading the cloud security business activity worth $2.5 billion. One year ago my partners and I founded Dazz. We recently raised $60 million from leading global venture capital firms.”
Cybersecurity panel. Photo: Calcalist studio
 
According to Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder and CEO of Salt Security: "IBM recently published a study according to which two thirds of cloud breaches come from EPI. It's an easy doorway. Covid accelerated companies' digitization. In a world where Covid restrictions come and go one can't count on the physical environment, but has to switch to digital platforms; that all builds on EPI,” noted Eliyahu. “When a company’s most secret information is made easy to access, it's easy to exploit it. Companies' innovations move faster than implementing security solutions, and because of the speed with which security teams can adjust to new threats, it's a race."  
Salt helps companies defend their EPI. “These interfaces connect all types of software: whether it's a mobile app or a browser app, 83% of web traffic goes over EPI. Most of our information online moves through these connections, and they are also the weak point attackers exploit when they hack into organizations attempting to steal information – as happened to Facebook, when millions of users' data were extracted exploiting these weak points. We use big data and artificial intelligence to identify attackers based on behavior rather than signatures and other methods. In 2016 we started the company and the term EPI security spread around the industry. Today we have 150 employees, and the number keeps rising. So far we have raised $130 million, Sequoia being one of our leading investors."  
According to Ety Spiegel Hubara, Co-Founder of Orca Security: "I think the attackers' creativity is endless. The world is going in the direction of using cloud technology, which inherently is more secure than older technology, partly thanks to cloud providers that update their security systems. Only a few days ago, our company published two weaknesses that we identified, in a controlled manner together with the AWS security team. The vulnerability exists in large organizations, and it will continue to exist."  
Speigel Hubara explained that Orca develops a technology for scanning websites that produces faster coverage of the environment - only a few minutes - while older products needed weeks. “Moreover, we make information security officers' work process more efficient by creating a visualization of the cloud environment as part of the scanning process. This way we get a larger mass of problem notifications, and then we target and prioritize the most critical problems."  
Ofer Ben Noon, Co-Founder and CEO of Talon Cyber Security, said: "I think it's a growing trend that will continue; the cyber world inherited the complexities of the technology world, the IT world. The moment the world becomes more complex, and infrastructure complexity grows, the exposure to risk grows,” he said. “Many people working on lots of different software makes the attacker's job that much easier. On the other hand, people are spread around the world and bad people are looking for ways to create more income sources. This is a financial incident for many organizations. We see more and more incidents that reach the level of world superpowers. And when it's financial and so strong, there's no reason for it to decline. We can produce value and bring solutions to clients."  
Ben Noon served in Unit 8200 in the IDF, and later founded the automotive cyber security company Argus. Argus was purchased by Continental in 2017 for $430 million. “I stayed on as CEO for another three years and then moved on to the next challenge. The most critical problem of the new world is work, and how people can work from anywhere. I realized there were three major revolutions that happened in 2020, and they are still happening: people work everywhere, there are a lot more cloud services where organizational data is processed and so many different tools: Windows, Mac, Linux, tablets, Android. Our goal is to connect them all because the browser is common to them all, it's the main working environment. It's an opportunity to introduce many security solutions into one product and also better secure the browser." Related articles:
Too many competitors or too many threats
"I believe the trend shows increasing security threats, and the cloud transformation is a driving force,” added Bahat. “Every company is turning digital: coffee shop chains, hotels, not just tech companies such as Microsoft and Google. This means that development is shifting to the cloud as well. In the past, new software was deployed twice a year, today it happens every three minutes. This means a great deal, because the code is reused and modified repeatedly. Open source code and cloud transformation create larger exposure and new paths for hackers. For this reason, this year is more challenging than previous ones. These trends create opportunities in the market; there is a lot of room for innovation. The best ideas win if there is real value; if one solves a difficult problem and executes it well they will succeed."  
Ben Noon said: "There's no doubt there are many more companies today than in the past, a kind of micro-inflation, and that poses a challenge to every organization's security manager, while on the other hand it shows that there are larger budgets, larger demand and more and more energy and investors' trust in our field. When we started we were the only ones, and today there are two companies attempting similar things. But that's not necessarily bad: There are larger marketing budgets, and someone to compare to. No one feels comfortable purchasing a product when there is only one version out there. Having substantial competition is ultimately a good thing. There will be a stage of consolidation, companies will merge to supply comprehensive solutions."  
Spiegel Hubara added: "Orca was a pioneer in the field, and the arrival of new companies is a good sign, it means we chose the right way. Moreover, free market competition is a welcome thing, it makes us better, more professional. The customers benefit the most."  
Naturally, accelerated growth comes with a demand for human resources, professionals in the cyber field specifically. According to Bahat: "It's important to state that we are in the midst of a very positive economic revolution in Israel. Large companies are formed, and not just unicorns; it requires an entire industry of product, finance and marketing professionals. I predict that foreign investment, $25 billion last year, and the setting up of company headquarters in Israel, will continue and create demand for larger numbers of employees. We should focus on educating the younger generation, a mission which I dedicated myself to during my time at Microsoft. Education should be aimed at parents and teachers as well, emphasizing that working in high-tech is a wonderful opportunity for our children and grandchildren for at least the next thirty years."  
Eliyahu added, "in our case, as in many other companies, we don’t look only for employees with a background in cyber tech. An employee with a background in big data, for instance, is also vital to us. I think it seems more challenging but the numbers indicate otherwise: In the last quarter, we recruited more employees than in the previous two. Nevertheless, I think the challenge gets harder. You see it especially in larger organizations, where the absolute number of employees is large. The number of professionals is reduced and the bar is set higher." Buzz

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Talon Cyber Security is a provider of cybersecurity solutions for the distributed workforce. Providing technology designed to protect against a new category of threats posed by distributed work and accelerated cloud usage, Talon enables workforce productivity and flexibility alongside holistic visibility and rock-solid cybersecurity.

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