Cybersecurity business Red Sift has selected Kx’s technology to power its cyber-attack prevention offering.
The partnership with Kx, a division of First Derivatives, will give Red Sift ‘powerful new tools’ for building innovative products on top of its cloud-based developer platform according to the business.
Red Sift provides a cloud-based platform that plugs into various data sources, including email, social media, IoT and analytics platform data, to detect cybersecurity risks and provide actionable insights. The company uses AI technologies to securely collate, compute and visualise data from thousands of individual signals in a bid to help organisations optimize their cybersecurity.
The first product on the Red Sift platform is OnDMARC, a SaaS product that helps organisations to implement and maintain phishing protection. It currently has more than 60 commercial clients, with hundreds more start-ups and personal users using OnDMARC free of charge as part of the company’s mission to democratise access to cybersecurity tools.
Kx was chosen ahead of traditional database solutions and open source alternatives because of its ‘proven reliability, compact footprint and powerful data analytics’, making it ideal for fast-moving cybersecurity challenges.
Rahul Powar, CEO of Red Sift, said: “At Red Sift, we believe the answer to stopping the rise of cyber attacks is through computers, not consultants. The power of Kx allows us to unlock the vast amounts of cyber attack data in real time and turn it into active protection.”
Kx has 20 years of experience working with some of the world’s largest finance, technology, retail, pharma, manufacturing and energy institutions. Its technology, incorporating the kdb+ time-series database, is provides high-performance, in-memory computing, streaming analytics and operational intelligence.
“Red Sift is an innovative and forward-thinking cybersecurity company and we are delighted to be working with the Red Sift team,” said Brian Conlon, CEO of Kx. “This pioneering agreement further demonstrates the flexibility of our horizontal technology which is being used across many industries such as manufacturing, capital markets, automotive and telecommunications – which of course are all touched by the demands of cybersecurity.”
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