Endor Labs Selected as Finalist for RSA Conference 2023 Innovation Sandbox
Endor Labs recognized for innovation in helping enterprises manage open source risk.
Endor Labs recognized for innovation in helping enterprises manage open source risk.
Endor Labs recognized for innovation in helping enterprises manage open source risk.
Endor Labs recognized for innovation in helping enterprises manage open source risk.
Endor Labs recognized for innovation in helping enterprises manage open source risk.
Palo Alto, California – March 22, 2023 – Endor Labs, the Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform, has been named one of 10 finalists for the RSA Conference™ 2023 Innovation Sandbox contest for its work helping enterprise manage open source risk by going beyond SCA and using reachability analysis to prioritize the vulnerabilities that actually impact the business. Endor Labs will present its technology to a panel of renowned industry judges and a live in-person audience on Monday, April 24 at RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco.
Since 2005, the RSAC Innovation Sandbox has served as a platform for the most promising young cybersecurity companies to showcase their groundbreaking technologies and compete for the title of “Most Innovative Startup.” The competition is widely recognized as a catapult for success and the top 10 finalists have collectively celebrated 75 acquisitions and received $12.5 billion in investments over the last 18 years. Endor Labs will have three minutes to pitch the panel of judges before a question-and-answer round.
“The RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox contest is one of the most exciting highlights of the week as we get to watch 10 of the cybersecurity industry’s best and brightest up and coming stars shine on stage with provocative and cutting-edge ideas,” said Linda Gray Martin, Senior Vice President, RSA Conference. “The demanding challenges and threats we face are only getting more complex in both size and severity and we need smart, determined and skilled individuals and companies to make an impact and help tackle what lies ahead.”
Developers turn to open source for productivity, but security teams struggle to enable that productivity in a secure way. Endor Labs takes a holistic approach to open source adoption, helping engineering and security manage the entire dependency lifecycle:
- Select better, safer, and more sustainable open source dependencies
- Secure the open source software supply chain by identifying next-gen attacks such as typosquatting, and cutting 80% of SCA alerts with reachability analysis
- Optimize applications and reduce attack surfaces by removing unused, outdated, and unsupported dependencies, consolidating versions, and understanding the effects of updates
- Comply with emerging standards such as SBOM and VEX automatically
“Eighty percent of the code in modern applications is code your developers didn’t write but depend on through open source packages. When our founding team was leading the Prisma Cloud engineering group at Palo Alto Networks, we realized the true magnitude of this issue,” said co-founder and CEO Varun Badhwar. “Having previously created the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category, this team knows how to take on next generation threats. Our mission now is to enable OSS to live up to its true potential without introducing unnecessary risk. It’s exciting to once again take a new approach to the market, and we believe these solutions will radically enhance application development everywhere.”
The RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest kicks off at 12:00 p.m. PT on April 24 and winners will be announced at 3:00 p.m. the same day. The panel of renowned expert judges includes Niloofar Howe, Sr. Operating Partner at Energy Impact Partners; Paul Kocher, Independent Researcher; Shlomo Kramer, Co-founder and CEO, Cato Networks; Barmak Meftah, Co-Founder & General Partner at Ballistic Ventures; and Christopher Young, Executive Vice President of Business Development Strategy and Ventures at Microsoft. Hugh Thompson, Program Committee Chair of RSA Conference, will return to host the contest.
For more information regarding RSA Conference 2023, taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 24-27, please visit https://www.rsaconference.com/usa.
About Endor Labs
Endor Labs helps developers spend less time dealing with security issues and more time accelerating development through safe Open Source Software (OSS) adoption. Our Dependency Lifecycle Management™ Solution helps organizations maximize software reuse by enabling security and development teams to select, secure, and maintain OSS at scale. The Endor Labs engineering team includes some of the world’s leading static analysis experts, including 7 PhDs and senior engineers from Meta, Uber, Amazon, and Microsoft. Endor Labs was founded by industry veterans Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, and Sierra Ventures, and industry luminaries who have recognized the massive problem Endor Labs is solving, including from Palo Alto Networks, Zoom, Snowflake, Zscaler, Netskope, Rubrik, Databricks, Microsoft, and more.
About RSA Conference
RSA Conference™ is the premier series of global events and year-round learning for the cybersecurity community. RSAC is where the security industry converges to discuss current and future topics and gain access to the experts, unbiased content and ideas that enable individuals and companies to advance their cybersecurity posture and build stronger and smarter teams. Both in-person and online, RSAC brings the cybersecurity industry together and empowers the collective “we” to stand against cyberthreats around the world. RSAC is the ultimate marketplace for the latest technologies and hands-on educational opportunities that help industry professionals discover how to make their companies more secure while showcasing the most enterprising, influential and thought-provoking visionaries and leaders in cybersecurity today. For the most up-to-date news pertaining to the cybersecurity industry, visit www.rsaconference.com. Where the world talks security.