DB Networks is a privately held

Information Security Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthori ...

company founded in the United States The company is headquartered in

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, and its regional offices are located in

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and

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. In May 2018, DB Networks announced that it will change its company name to DB CyberTech.

History

DB Networks was founded in United States in 2009 to provide

database security Database security concerns the use of a broad range of information security controls to protect databases (potentially including the data, the database applications or stored functions, the database systems, the database servers and the associated ...

including database infrastructure assessment, compromised credential identification, and

SQL injection In computing, SQL injection is a code injection technique used to attack data-driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution (e.g. to dump the database contents to the attacker). SQL inj ...

defense, predominantly to the financial services industry and federal government. The company was initially financed by

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. In 2012 the company raised $4.5M in

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth poten ...

from

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. In 2014 the company closed a $17 Million round of funding led by Khosla Ventures and Grotech Ventures. The company's first product, the ADF-4200, was launched in February 2013. Also in February 2013 the company announced a partnership with Alamo City Engineering Services (ACES) to offer its products to the

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and civilian federal agencies. In October 2013 the company announced the IDS-6300, later renamed DBN-6300, originally as a

defense and database infrastructure security product. In 2013 DB Networks was invited to join the Cync

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technology program under the direction of

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and the

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Research Park Corporation. The Cync program identifies innovative technologies to combat cybersecurity threats. In 2014 AMP Tech Solutions was announced as a channel partner to offer DB Network products through the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) IV contract to the

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. In 2015 DB Networks was awarded two United States patents for their database security technologies. DB Networks began licensing their database security software and technologies to original equipment manufacturers (

OEM An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces non-aftermarket parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer. It is a common industry term recognized and used by many professional or ...

s) in February 2016 coinciding with the launch of their Layer 7 Database Sensor. Partnerships have been announced with

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, Cyphort, and Security On-Demand.

Technology

DB Networks database security technology is based on

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

and

behavioral analysis Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and animals. It assumes that behavior is either a reflex evoked by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that individual' ...

as opposed to the traditional information security approach requiring human generated blacklists or

whitelist A whitelist, allowlist, or passlist is a mechanism which explicitly allows some identified entities to access a particular privilege, service, mobility, or recognition i.e. it is a list of things allowed when everything is denied by default. It is ...

s. The machine learning and behavioral analysis platform learns each applications' proper SQL transaction behavior. Compromised credentials and rogue SQL statements, such as a SQL injection attack, will deviate from the established model and will raise an alarm as a database attack. Machine learning and behavioral analysis technologies have the ability to prevent advanced and zero-day database attacks without prior

threat intelligence Threat intelligence is the "cyclical practice" of planning, collecting, processing, analyzing and disseminating information that poses a threat to applications and systems. Threat intelligence collects information in real-time to showcase the thre ...

or the need to establish and maintain signature files of known attack strings.

Products

DB Networks DBN-6300 was announced in October 2013 (originally referred to as the IDS-6300). The DBN-6300 is a 2U purpose-built database

security appliance A security appliance is any form of server appliance that is designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic. Types of Security Appliances * Active devices block unwanted traffic. Examples of such devices are firewalls, anti virus sc ...

. It uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to identify database attacks in real-time. A

virtual appliance A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor; virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of software appliances. Installation of a software appliance on a virtual machine and packaging that ...

version of the DBN-6300 was launched in February 2014, now referred to as the DBN-6300v. The Layer 7 Database Sensor was launched in February 2016. The Layer 7 Database Sensor enables other information security product manufactures to integrate DB Networks database security technology into their products. In March 2016, "insider threat" protection capabilities were added to the DBN-6300 and Layer 7 Database Sensor products.

Industry Recognition

2016 * Best Data Center Security Solution for 2016 - Cyber Defense Magazine * Grand Trophy - Info Security Awards * Top-30 Cybersecurity Providers in Silicon Valley * Ranked 47 in the Cybersecurity 500 2015 * The Best Data Center Security Product for 2015 - Cyber Defense Magazine * Grand Trophy - Info Security Awards * Top 100 Cyber Security Companies 2014 * CIO Review's 20 Most Promising Enterprise Security Companies * "Grand Global Excellence" Trophy for the Best of the Best in Security Technology - Info Security's Global Excellence Awards * Most Innovative Intrusion Detection System for 2014 - Cyber Defense Magazine * Finalist for SC Magazine 2014 Best Database Security Solution 2013 * Finalist for SC Magazine 2013 Best Database Security Solution * 2013 Info Security's Global Excellence Awards ** Gold winner - Database Security ** Gold winner - Firewalls ** Gold winner - New Product Launch

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