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About
Perception Point is a privately held cybersecurity company based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in the USA and UK. Perception Point's mission is to protect its customers against increasingly complex and multi-layer threats across an ever-wider range of attack vectors that include email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration apps. The company equips every customer with a holistic advanced threat prevention platform combined with an integrated managed incident response service. This unique combination delivers the most comprehensive and accurate detection capabilities, along with rapid investigation and remediation services, which prevent and manage the most advanced attacks amidst today's rapidly changing threat landscape.

History
The company was founded in 2015 by Shlomi Levin and Michael Aminov, who both previously served in the technological unit of the Israeli military's Intelligence Corps. Yoram Salinger, the former CEO at Redband, serves as the company's CEO. Both Levin and Aminov have left the company as of 2022.

Recognizing the growing threat of email-based attacks, Levin and Aminov founded Perception Point to address this need. In the company's early years, they focused on developing a unique technology called HAP, Hardware Assisted Platform, that could identify and block advanced attacks in real-time, using a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision techniques.

Perception Point quickly gained traction in the cybersecurity industry, and in 2017, the company raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Pitango Venture Capital. This funding allowed Perception Point to expand its product offerings and grow its team.

In 2019, Perception Point raised an additional $8 million in a Series B funding round led by Storm Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to $15 million. The company used this funding to expand its global presence and launch new products. In 2021, Perception Point raised another $28 million in a series B funding round. The new funding round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners and joined by global investor NGP Capital along with existing investors Pitango Venture Capital and State of Mind Ventures (SOMV). It brings the company’s total funding to $48 million. During 2022, the company doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) and increased its customer base for the third year in a row, with the company now protecting over 2,000 organizations. Perception Point more than tripled its global partner base, and launched its new partner program to support the company's focus on a channel-first strategy.

Hysolate Acquisition
In March 2022, the company acquired a fellow cybersecurity company, Hysolate. Hysolate's platform enables organizations to secure access to sensitive corporate applications and data with a local and isolated workspace on the user’s endpoint. Hysolate was founded in 2016 by Team8, Dan Diner and Tal Zamir and has so far raised $33 million. Other investors in the company include the risk capital fund Plaven, Bessemer and Innovation Endeavors. With Perception Point’s acquisition of Hysolate, the company has a total of more than 110 employees, with Hysolate’s CEO Tal Zamir, becoming Perception Point’s CTO.

As part of the purchase, the technologies of the two companies were incorporated and thus the product offering for protecting employees surfing the web from the enterprise endpoints was expanded. The solution now includes all channels through which content can be shared, such as email, cloud storage, CRM systems and enterprise data leakage prevention (DLP).

Products
The company's flagship product is a cloud-based email security platform that uses advanced machine learning and proprietary algorithms to detect and prevent advanced threats, such as phishing attacks, malware, and zero-day exploits. The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with popular email services such as Microsoft Office 365, Google Workspace, and any cloud-based email service (with on-prem support). Perception Point's technology is based on a unique approach to threat detection that involves analyzing the entire content of an email, file or URL in real-time, rather than relying on traditional signature-based methods. This allows the platform to detect even the most sophisticated threats that may have evaded other security measures. Through a multi-channel presence within the organization, the platform correlates data from email, web, cloud apps and more for improved detection and investigation and faster remediation of threats.

Integrated into Perception Point’s product suite is a managed incident response service, a team of cybersecurity experts acting as 24/7 extension of Perception Point customer’s SOC/IT/security providers, handling all activities concerning email, web and collaboration security; managing incidents, maintaining and optimizing policies, on-demand investigations, reporting, FP+FN hunting, among other services.

Advanced Email Security
Perception Point’s advanced email security solution is designed to prevent advanced and everyday email-based attacks, such as phishing, impersonation scams, Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, malware, and ransomware, from reaching the organization's end-users.

The solution employs a multi-layered detection architecture to protect against both known and unknown threats. The platform includes: advanced anti-spam and anti-phishing layers, proprietary anti-evasion algorithms, in-house image recognition tech and a patented dynamic scanning engine (HAP™) to intercept any type of unknown or evasive attack in seconds. HAP™– Hardware Assisted Platform is a next-gen sandbox that dynamically scans content at the CPU/memory level. It detects threats in a deterministic manner, at the exploit level, rather than the application level, finding low-level misusage patterns and anomalies – rather than looking for known behaviors that have been previously categorized as potentially malicious.

Advanced Browser Security
Perception Point offers a comprehensive browser security extension that is designed to protect users from a wide range of web-based threats, including malicious downloads, phishing sites, malicious insiders and other types of attacks. The extension is deployed with most popular web browsers such as Chrome, Safari, and Edge.

The solution uses the multi-layered detection architecture (same as Advanced Email Security) combined with Browser-level Governance and DLP controls providing organizations of all sizes with the ability to detect, prevent and remediate internal and external browser threats, while maintaining user productivity and native browsing experience.

Advanced Collaboration Security
Perception Point's cloud collaboration security solution was designed to protect organizations using SaaS collaboration and storage tools such as Salesforce, MS Teams, Slack, and Google Drive from malicious content. Advanced Security for Microsoft 365

Perception Point's Microsoft 365 security solution is designed to protect organizations using Microsoft 365 cloud services and email environments, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, MS Teams and OneDrive. Advanced Threat Protection for Web Apps & File Uploads

Perception Point offers a unique solution for scanning any business flow involving content and preventing malicious files and URLs from infiltrating the organization. The solution easily integrates into in-house web applications, unsourced file streams, custom web portals and 3rd party content sharing solutions, via a simple API or ICAP integration. Awards & Recognition

Perception Point has won several awards for its innovative technology, including the 2020 Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award for Email Security Solution of the Year, and has been recognized by leading industry analysts such as Gartner, SE Labs and Forrester.