Sanctum was a Santa Clara, California-based information technology company focused on application security. Sanctum offered a firewall, AppShield, and scanner, AppScan, for application-layer security for Web environments.[1]
Company type | Private Company |
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Industry | Software, Information Technology |
Predecessor | Perfecto Technologies |
Founded | 1997 |
Founder | Gili Raanan and Eran Reshef |
Defunct | 2006 |
Fate | Acquired |
Successor | IBM |
Headquarters | Herzliya, Israel, |
Products | AppShield and AppScan |
Website | www.IBM.com |
In 2003 Sanctum was merged with Watchfire and the company was subsequently acquired by IBM.[2]
Sanctum was founded in 1997 as Perfecto Technologies, by Eran Reshef and Gili Raanan.
The company released its first product AppShield in summer of 1999.[3]
The company has done an extensive research in application security and applying formal methods to real life software[4] in collaboration with Turing Award winner Professor Amir Penueli. Early research in 1996 and 1997 led to the invention, in parallel to other teams, of CAPTCHA technology, and the application for a US patent for CAPTCHA.[5]
In 2000 the company renamed itself to Sanctum.[6] The company was backed by investors Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, DLJ, Walden and Mofet.[7]
The AppShield product was the first product to inspect incoming Hypertext Transfer Protocol requests and block malicious attacks based on a dynamic policy which was composed by analyzing the outgoing HTML pages.[8][9]
Later in June 2000 the company introduced AppScan the world's first Web Security Vulnerability Assessment solution.[10] Among the first clients for AppScan were Yahoo!,[11] Bank of America and AT&T.[12]
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