Confer Named to Red Herring Top 100

BOSTON, June 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Confer, a leader in endpoint detection and response (EDR), was named to Red Herring's Top 100 North America 2016, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures. Top 100 winners were announced at the Red Herring North America Forum in Newport Beach, California.

"Confer is honored to receive this recognition and to be highlighted alongside so many of North America's best and brightest technology start-ups," said Mark Quinlivan, CEO of Confer. "This award is a testament to the passion, talent and expertise our team brings to work every day and provides continued validation for our Converged Endpoint Security Platform for rapid, cost-effective prevention, detection and response to cyber threats."

Red Herring has been selecting the most exciting and promising start-ups and "scale ups" since 1995. Finalists are evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates based across North America. Twenty major criteria underlie the scoring process, including the addressable market size, IP and patents, financing, proof of concept, trailing revenues, and management expertise. Each company goes through an individual interview after filling out a thorough application, complemented by due diligence from the Red Herring panel. The winners include some of the best performing and prominent companies of this year.

Confer's award-winning Converged Endpoint Platform is an adaptive defense that integrates prevention, detection and incident response across endpoints, servers and cloud workloads. The solution uses a lightweight sensor allowing businesses to easily secure millions of distributed devices, while busy security teams focus on broader enterprise priorities. The patented technology replicates the same analytics that human beings would perform and automates it within the product, enabling companies of all sizes and budgets to benefit from the best security available.

"In 2016, selecting the top achievers was extremely difficult," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "The variety, depth, disruption and traction we saw from the early stage companies to those with significant scale made it one of the toughest vintages to judge. The North America winners are representative of the amazing ecosystem that never ceases to astound, with new and experienced entrepreneurs continuing to push the barriers of innovation. As one of the winners, Confer should be proud of its accomplishment under such strong competition."

About Confer
Confer offers a fundamentally different approach to endpoint security through a Converged Endpoint Security Platform, an adaptive defense that integrates prevention, detection and incident response for endpoints, servers and cloud workloads. The patented technology disrupts most attacks while collecting a rich history of endpoint behavior to support post-incident response and remediation. Confer automates this approach to secure millions of devices, regardless of where they are, allowing security teams to focus on more important activities.

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