Sanctum (company)
| Company type | Private Company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software, Information Technology |
| Predecessor | Perfecto Technologies |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Gili Raanan and Eran Reshef |
| Defunct | 2006 |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | IBM |
| Headquarters | Herzliya, Israel, |
| Products | AppShield and AppScan |
| Website | www.IBM.com |
Sanctum was a Santa Clara, California-based information technology company focused on application security. Sanctum offered a firewall, AppShield, and scanner, AppScan, for application-layer security for Web environments.[1]
In 2003 Sanctum was merged with Watchfire and the company was subsequently acquired by IBM.[2]
History[edit]
Sanctum was founded in 1997 as Perfecto Technologies, by Eran Reshef and Gili Raanan.
The company released its first product AppShield in summer of 1999.[3]
The company has done an extensive research in application security and applying formal methods to real life software[4] in collaboration with Turing Award winner Professor Amir Penueli. Early research in 1996 and 1997 led to the invention, in parallel to other teams, of CAPTCHA technology, and the application for a US patent for CAPTCHA.[5]
In 2000 the company renamed itself to Sanctum.[6] The company was backed by investors Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, DLJ, Walden and Mofet.[7]
Products[edit]
The AppShield product was the first product to inspect incoming Hypertext Transfer Protocol requests and block malicious attacks based on a dynamic policy which was composed by analyzing the outgoing HTML pages.[8][9]
Later in June 2000 the company introduced AppScan the world's first Web Security Vulnerability Assessment solution.[10] Among the first clients for AppScan were Yahoo!,[11] Bank of America and AT&T.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ "What the Watchfire-Sanctum acquisition means for Web app security". Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ "IBM Buys Watchfire". PCWorld. 2007-06-06. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ Messmer, Ellen. "CNN - New tool blocks wily e-comm hacker tricks - September 7, 1999". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ Kesten, Yonit; Klein, Amit; Pnueli, Amir; Raanan, Gil (1999-09-20). Wing, Jeannette M.; Woodcock, Jim; Davies, Jim (eds.). FM'99 — Formal Methods. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 173–194. doi:10.1007/3-540-48119-2_12. ISBN 9783540665878. S2CID 41193257.
- ^ US20050114705A1, Reshef, Eran; Raanan, Gil & Solan, Eilon, "Method and system for discriminating a human action from a computerized action", issued 2005-05-26
- ^ "Perfecto Changes Name to Sanctum - Globes English". Globes. 21 June 2000. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ "DLJ'S Sprout Group Leads $16 Million Investment in Perfecto Technologies; Premier Venture Firm Backs eBusiness Security Software Company. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ US6311278B1, Raanan, Gil; Moran, Tal & Galant, Yoron et al., "Method and system for extracting application protocol characteristics", issued 2001-10-30
- ^ US20030226038A1, Raanan, Gil & Linhart, Chaim, "Method and system for dynamic refinement of security policies", issued 2003-12-04
- ^ "Sanctum Introduces AppScan: Industry's First Automated Web Application Security Audit Tool. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ Network World. IDG Network World Inc. 2000-06-19.
- ^ "Sanctum, Inc. cited as leader in key web security sector". 5 August 2002. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
