VMRay
| VMRay | |
| Industry | Network Security |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founder | Carsten Willems, Ralf Hund |
| Headquarters | Bochum, Germany |
| Products | network security software |
| Website |
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VMRay is a German CyberSecurity company based in Bochum, Germany with a sales and marketing office in the United States. The company provides both a cloud-based and on-premises product, VMRay Analyzer. VMRay Analyzer detects malware-related threats using dynamic program analysis for malware analysis. VMRay uses hypervisor-based monitoring built on the academic work of the two founders. VMRay Analyzer is primarily used by CERTs and SOCs in large enterprises, telecoms and other technology vendors for identifying malware, in particular targeted attacks related to APTs.
History
VMRay was founded by Carsten Willems and Ralf Hund in 2013 based on the work each had done as part of their Ph.Ds[1] they received that year in computer science / IT-security at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. The first production deployment of VMRay technology was in early 2015. This technology was in turn built on their earlier work on automating dynamic malware analysis.[2] VMRay has received seed funding from High-Tech Gruenderfonds.[3] In October 2016 VMRay closed a Series A investment of 3.5 million euros with eCapital as the lead investor.[4]
Product
- VMRay Analyzer is an agentless hypervisor-based software or cloud service that monitors and dynamically analyzes suspicious files and URLs and scores the severity of maliciousness based on the analyzed behavior.
References
- ↑ Hypervisor-based, hardware-assisted system monitoring C Willems, R Hund, T Holz - Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Tech. Rep, 2013 Cxpinspector (PDF)
- ↑ Toward Automated Dynamic Malware Analysis Using CWSandbox C Willems, Felix Freiling, T Holz - IEEE Security & Privacy, vol.5, no. 2, pp. 32-39, March/April 2007, doi:10.1109/MSP.2007.45 cwsandbox
- ↑ "High-Tech Gruenderfonds Invests in the Next-Generation Malware Analysis Software of VMRay GmbH". VC-startups.
- ↑ "VMRay Secures $3.9 Million Series A Investment to Accelerate Adoption of Company's Agentless Automated Threat Detection by Enterprises Worldwide". PRWeb.