Month: February 2012

A journey through the Lookingglass brings additional funding

Founded in 2006, Baltimore, Maryland-based Lookingglass Cyber Solutions is one of the newest kids on the cyber security-visibility block. The company’s flagship product, ScoutVision, aims to protect against targeted attacks by gathering, correlating and analyzing threat information from within a customer’s network, supply chain and other sources of Internet-based threat intelligence.

The company also recently announced its first funding round. Alsop Louie Partners, an early-stage technology venture firm based in San Francisco, is leading its $5m series A funding – which the company states will be used to fuel marketing, sales and deployment initiatives. Vital Financial, a private equity and capital investment firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, is also participating.

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Where’s My ‘Minority Report’ Dashboard?

Why haven’t user interfaces for security products taken advantage of human movement technologies? Minority Report was released in 2002 — that’s 10 years ago for those of you counting at home. Even with the invention of Nintendo’s Wii controller in 2006 and Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect controller in 2010 (not to mention the subsequent release of Microsoft’s Kinect SDK), a commercial Minority Report-like interface has yet to be commercially released.

Check out my post at the Dark Reading Security Monitoring Tech Center.

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