{"id":5491,"date":"2023-08-31T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessyield.com\/tech\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2023-09-01T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T21:42:16","slug":"top-zerofox-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessyield.com\/tech\/technology\/top-zerofox-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP ZEROFOX PLATFORM: COMPETITORS & ALTERNATIVES 2023","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

ZeroFox is a leading provider of external cybersecurity solutions. The company’s platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and mitigate threats to organizations’ brands, data, and employees.<\/p>

ZeroFox is a great option for organizations that are looking for a comprehensive external cybersecurity solution. However, there are other great options available as well. In this article, we will take a look at some of the top ZeroFox platform competitors and alternatives.<\/p>

We will compare these solutions based on their features, pricing, and capabilities. <\/p>

What is  ZeroFox <\/span><\/h2>

ZeroFox developed the first end-to-end external cybersecurity platform, which also gives security teams unmatched access and control over social media, the surface, deep, and dark webs. This gives security teams the upper hand against emerging threats. With the support of a top-tier international managed services team, we combine market-leading products such as external attack surface management, digital risk protection, cyber threat intelligence, adversary disruption, and incident and breach response services into a single platform experience. <\/p>

Customers of ZeroFox have total protection over hundreds of external assets that are vulnerable, such as domains, social platforms, executives, forums, job boards, mobile applications, BINs, markets, intellectual property, physical locations, code repositories, third parties, and more. <\/p>

Additionally, our group of SOC analysts and embedded dark web personalities constantly deliver curated results and a consistent stream of pertinent threat alerts loaded with crucial context, analysis, and suggestions. In addition, ZeroFox is designed to dismantle attacker infrastructure, disrupt and eliminate threats at scale, take down rogue domains and social media accounts internally, file UDRPs, and more.<\/p>

History of the Company<\/span><\/h3>

Eric Hahn, a former Netscape Communications CTO, launched the business in July 2002. It began operations on July 21, 2003, following the completion of a $7 million Series A investment round, the release of its first product, and the gathering of six customer references. Benchmark Capital and Stanford University served as the company’s venture backers.  In October 2003, $9 million in Series B fundraising headed by RRE Ventures of New York City was announced.<\/p>

The company Proofpoint went public in April 2012. At the time of the company’s initial public offering (IPO), investors purchased more than 6.3 million shares for $13, raising more than $80 million.<\/p>

Companies Product<\/span><\/h3>

The Proofpoint Protection Server (PPS) for medium and large enterprises was the company’s first offering. It included what was referred to as “MLX Technology”\u2014proprietary machine learning techniques used to accurately identify spam email utilizing 10,000 different attributes to distinguish between spam and legitimate email. Spam became a primary commercial goal as the company joined dozens of other anti-spam software providers in a revenue opportunity driven by an exponential rise in spam volume that was endangering employee productivity. According to the 2004 National Technology Review, there are over 50,000 spam-detecting attributes.<\/p>

Acquisitions<\/span><\/h3>

In an effort to integrate Cyveillance’s threat intelligence data cache and dark web intelligence capabilities with the ZeroFox Digital Risk Protection Platform, ZeroFox bought Cyveillance from LookingGlass in October 2020.<\/p>