PrivateCore
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| Industry | Encryption |
| Founded | October 19, 2011 |
| Founders | Oded Horovitz Steve Weis |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Oded Horovitz (CEO, co-founder) Steve Weis (CTO, co-founder) Todd Thiemann (VP Marketing) Carl Waldspurger (Advisor) |
| Website | www |
PrivateCore is a venture-backed startup located in Palo Alto, California that develops software to secure server data through server attestation and memory encryption. The company’s attestation and memory encryption technology fills a gap that exists between “data in motion” encryption (TLS, email encryption) and “data at rest” encryption (disk encryption, tape encryption) by protecting “data in use” (random access memory). PrivateCore memory encryption technology protects against threats to servers such as cold boot attacks, hardware advanced persistent threats, rootkits/bootkits, computer hardware supply chain attacks, and physical threats to servers from insiders. PrivateCore was acquired by Facebook, a deal that was announced on 7 August 2014.
PrivateCore was founded in 2011 by security veterans from VMware and Google with seed funding from Foundation Capital. PrivateCore “virtualizes” physical security and enables service providers and enterprises deploy servers processing sensitive data in outsourced environments while maintaining security around data in use.
The company’s memory encryption technology has been spurred by a number of industry trends including the increasing sophistication of hackers, a larger number of servers in outsourced environments, larger amounts of sensitive data being placed in persistent memory, and x86 virtualization technology which can increase the environment attack surface.
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