Big SASIG is grateful to Synack for sponsoring our post-conference networking drinks reception

An opportunity for end-users and vendors to meet as equals.

4.45 – 6pm

etc.venues, 155 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3YD

 

A four-time CNBC Disruptor 50 company, Synack is a technology company founded in 2013 by former NSA security experts CEO Jay Kaplan, and CTO Dr Mark Kuhr. The Synack Platform combines AI and machine learning-enabled security software, fuelled by a diverse community of vetted and trusted researchers to help keep its customers secure. Its network of freelance security analysts from over 80 countries checks vulnerability and security problems, giving businesses the best chance of finding every vulnerability that matters.

Synack delivers continuous cybersecurity testing and advanced technology, giving organisations visibility into their most critical vulnerabilities and actionable solutions. The software provides security testing through a SaaS platform to find exploitable vulnerabilities for reconnaissance. Synack offers its services to government agencies and businesses in the retail, healthcare, and manufacturing industries.

The name Synack comes from the foundational protocols of the world’s online networks. SYN-ACK is the ‘handshake’ that transfers data packets between sender and receiver. Synack saw in those trillions-per-second moments a better model for securing the connections that drive communication and business. They also saw a chance to unite technology and human intelligence in another kind of handshake that would revolutionise cybersecurity based on trust.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley with regional teams around the world, Synack protects leading global banks, federal agencies, DoD classified assets, and more than $6 trillion in Fortune 500 and Global 2000 revenue. According to Bloomberg, Synack is “the most trusted crowdsourced penetration testing platform.” In 2020, the company was featured in America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies list by Forbes magazine and was also named in Gartner’s Top 25 Enterprise Software Startups. It is valued at US $500M as of May 2020, as per Fortune Magazine.

In 2018, Synack worked with the US Department of Defense to strengthen the Hack the Pentagon initiative, by vetting ethical hackers for continual assessment of defense websites, hardware, and physical systems. In June 2020, the company partnered with DARPA to check for data leakage and buffer errors in their new security prototype developed through the System Security Integration Through Hardware (SSITH) program. In July 2020, the Colorado secretary of state’s office partnered with Synack to conduct penetration tests of its election systems ahead of the presidential vote.

You can find out more about Synack at www.synack.com