Zimperium

Zimperium

Type	Private
Industry	Computer software, Security software, Mobile Security
Genre	Mobile Threat Detection
Founded	2010
Founder	Itzhak Avraham
Headquarters	San Francisco, Dallas, United States
Key people	Kevin Mitnick
Website	https://www.zimperium.com/

Zimperium is a privately owned mobile security company based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2010 by its Chairman and CTO, and former Chief Executive Officer Itzhak Avraham. In 2011, Elia Yehuda, joined as a co-founder. The company has raised over $50M from private investors including Samsung, Telstra, Sierra Ventures, Stephen Northcutt and Warburg Pincus.^[1][2][3][4]

In April 2015, Zimperium researcher, Joshua Drake, reported several critical vulnerabilities in libstagefright in the Android operating system collectively known as Stagefright. The Stagefright bug claimed to effect 950 million devices and woke up the mobile security ecosystem. Shortly after, Zimperium Labs launched the Zimperium Handset Alliance^[5] to collaborate on how to update existing devices more efficiently. Since then, several telecommunication carriers like Telstra, SmarTone,^[6] Deutsche Telekom^[7] and SoftBank^[8] are distributing their own mobile security apps to their customers using Zimperium's technology.

Technology and additional information

• Mobile Diagnostics Toolkit (zANTI) is used by over 500,000. Mostly used by professional users: IT Managers and Penetration Testers^[9]
• zIPS – Mobile IPS (Network): Is the first tool to prevent network attacks completely in user-mode without root permissions. The technology behind zIPS Network IPS invented by ZIMPERIUM and is known as Non-Intrusive-Packet-Monitoring technique ^[10]
• zIPS – Mobile IPS (Host): Technology does not rely on signatures database.^[11] zIPS is the first security tool to detect threats such as Download-and-execute payloads outside of its own sandbox using artificial intelligence, completely in user-mode^[12] without system permissions ^[13]

References

1. "Mobile security startup Zimperium scores $25 million". VentureBeat.
2. Archived April 26, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
3. "Zimperium Raises $8M For Mobile Security That Turns The Tables On Attackers". TechCrunch. 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
4. "Mobile security co Zimperium raises $8m". McClatchy Business. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
5. "ZHA - Accelerating roll-out of Security Patches". Zimperium Mobile Security Blog. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
6. "SmarTone Launches ST Protect" (PDF).
7. AG, Deutsche Telekom. "Deutsche Telekom ushers in a new era of mobile security". Retrieved 2016-11-14.
8. "SoftBank and Zimperium to Offer Security Solutions for Mobile Devices in Japan | SoftBank Corp. | Group Companies | About Us | SoftBank Group". SoftBank Group. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
9. Archived February 1, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
10. Velazco, Chris (2014-01-23). "Android app learns from your phone to fend off malicious attacks". Engadget.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
11. Ellen Messmer (2014-01-23). "Three security startups you should keep an eye on". Network World. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
13. "Android app claims to use artificial intelligence to fight cyber threats". The Inquirer. 2014-01-24. Retrieved 2015-08-13.