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  • StopTheHacker Helps Website Owners Combat Malware, Raises $1.1 Million

    Robin Wauters

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Monday, February 13th, 2012
    stopthehacker

    StopTheHacker, an aptly named provider of SaaS-based website security services, has secured $1.1 million in first-round funding from public and private investors, including Runa Capital and former Bluecoat chief executive Brian NeSmith.

    StopTheHacker’s technology, which relies on machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, basically helps website owners prevent, detect and recover from online malware attacks and other hacker shenanigans with a software-as-a-service offering.

    The company says its AI engine is based on four years of research at the University of California, Riverside, which was originally funded by the National Science Foundation (also see team). The engine, StopTheHacker says, boasts self-adapting capabilities, constantly monitoring new strains of malware to build a profile of emerging threats.

    StopTheHacker is based in San Francisco.