Cloud security, mobile security, advanced behavioral detection, and some other surprises make this latest crop of newcomers worth watching.

It’s boom times for security startups as experienced researchers, security entrepreneurs, and other industry players attempt to profit while helping enterprises cope with the following generation of threats. With technology addressing everything from cloud and mobile security to advanced threat detection, this latest class of startups shows promise, offering a spate of latest development within the year to return.

Bluebox

Still working in stealth mode, Bluebox just picked up another sizeable chunk of change to continue developing technology to support enterprise data on employee-owned devices. As of now the corporate remains heads down, though it does have a nominal place available in the market with a free security scanner inside the Android app store. The app looks for a flaw that that may give the opportunity to show legitimate apps malicious.

TaaSERA

Spun out of a $10 million 5-year Army research project, TaaSERA’s patented behavior detection engine is designed to detect malware infections by watching network transaction sequences and picking up red flags that can not be detected by traditional IDS/IPS.

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Ericka Chickowski focuses on coverage of data technology and business innovation. She has desirous about information security for the higher a part of a decade and often writes concerning the security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading.  View Full Bio

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