This is a series of articles aimed at making people aware of the endangered Unicorns that exist among us.
It is not their fault that they are endangered. It’s the price and pride of ownership. So where along the way the decision was made to feed them more than they can consume and that lean was not as import as means.
Some of the unicorns have done well on this diet. Others have not. We don’t pass judgement on the individual unicorns. We just highlight the herd for your awareness.
We will ignore the fact that there were 147 about a month ago and now we are at 149 again so the venture capitalists are clearly back into their optimism or flush with cash.
Cylance
Cylance is one of the newest member to the billion dollar start up club and competes with Palo Alto Networks and some other on doing security via machine learning systems. While Cylance Inc. focuses on file malware they join CloudFlare Inc., ForeScout Technologies Inc. and Tanium Inc as cyber security Billion Dollar Startup Club members.
However, it is not a new company, it was started in 2012.
Per the Wall Street Journal ” the company was also recently credited with identifying the malware that caused the 2015 breach at the Office of Personnel Management, which left more than 21 million Social Security numbers vulnerable.”
Stuart McClure is the CEO, President and Founder and is former McAfee.