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CipherCloud is an American software company providing cloud computing security to businesses. The company was established in 2010 and is based out of San Jose, California.
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information privacy |
| Founded | (2010) |
| Founder | Pravin Kothari |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Pravin Kothari, Founder & CEO John M. Jack, Board[1] Gilles Samoun, Board |
| Website | www |
CipherCloud was founded in 2010 by Pravin Kothari, who previously co-founded ArcSight.[2] The company launched in February 2011 and initially worked in Salesforce.com environments.[3] It added Amazon Web Services integration in 2011.[4] CipherCloud released its Gmail security service in June 2012.[5] By September 2012, CipherCloud's platform could secure Force.com, Chatter, Microsoft Office 365.[6] It also launched Connect AnyApp, which allowed users to specify Web pages of an application to be secured.[6]
CipherCloud closed a $30 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures in December 2012.[7][8][2] Deutsche Telekom also participated in the funding round through T-Ventures, the telecommunications company's venture capital arm.[9] John M. Jack, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former CEO of Fortify Software, joined the CipherCloud board following the investment.[7][8] The company opened its European headquarters in London, England in the same month.[10] CipherCloud added an Australian headquarters in 2013.[11]
In February 2013, CipherCloud joined Box Inc., an online file sharing and cloud-content management service, to bring CipherCloud's security to file-sharing and file-hosting services such as Box.[12] In January 2014, CipherCloud acquired CloudUp Networks.[13] CloudUp Networks' software was in the area of tracking and authorized data management in the cloud environments.[14]
In April 2014, CipherCloud released a new product, CipherCloud for Cloud Discovery.[15] Cloud Discovery was built to analyze firewall and proxy logs of cloud applications in use (Shadow IT), as well as evaluate the risks those applications might represent to the organization.[16]
In November 2014, the company announced closing its Series B funding round of $50 million. Transamerica Ventures led the round, joined by Delta Partners, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and T-Ventures, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom.[17]
According to Gartner's reviews, CipherCloud's CASB+ platform shares the features similar to other major cloud services providers: data protection, adaptive access control, threat protection and centralized compliance capabilities across different SaaS and IaaS clouds.[18]
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