ExtraHop Networks

ExtraHop Networks is an enterprise cyber analytics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. ExtraHop helps organizations understand and secure their environments by analyzing all network interactions in real time and leveraging machine learning to identify threats, deliver critical applications, and secure investments in the hybrid cloud.

ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryTechnology
Founded2007
FoundersJesse Rothstein
Raja Mukerji
HeadquartersSeattle, WA
Websitewww.extrahop.com

History

Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji founded ExtraHop in 2007. The co-founders were formerly senior engineers at F5 Networks and architects of the BIG-IP v9 product.

Early on, ExtraHop acquired $6.6 million in funding from the Madrona Venture Group and other private investors including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.[1] In May 2014, the company closed a $41 million Series C round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). Other participants in this round included existing investors Meritech Capital Partners and Madrona Venture Group, as well as private investors including Sujal Patel, former CEO and founder of Isilon Systems. This round brought ExtraHop’s total venture funding to $61.6 million.[2]

In December 2014, the company appointed John Matthews as Chief Information Officer.[3] In July 2016, ExtraHop brought on Arif Kareem, former president of the Fluke Networks division of Fluke Corporation, as CEO with co-founder Jesse Rothstein moving into the CTO role.[4]

After debuting as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics in 2017, [5] in 2018 ExtraHop expanded into the cyber security market with the release of the Reveal(x) product. In January 2019, the company announced having booked $100 million in revenue for the previous year. [6] ExtraHop was also named to Wealthfront's 2019 Career-Launching Companies List. [7]

Products
ExtraHop is headquartered on the 16th floor of 520 Pike Tower in downtown Seattle

ExtraHop sells products for Security and IT Operations use cases. The company launched the Reveal(x) network traffic analysis product for Security Operations teams in 2018. [8] Later that year ExtraHop released Reveal(x) for Microsoft Azure, its security product for the Azure cloud. [9]

The core of ExtraHop technology is a passive network appliance that uses a network tap or port mirroring to receive network traffic, and then performs real-time full-stream reassembly to extract application-level protocol metrics and other custom-specified information contained in the transaction payload.[10] A subset of these metrics are sent to the cloud where they are used as machine learning features to proactively detect anomalous behavior that could indicate data breaches, ransomware, and other threats as well as performance issues.[11]

The ExtraHop appliances can be deployed on-premises or in public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

References
  1. "Marc Andreessen, Madrona back ExtraHop Networks with $5 mil".
  2. https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/29/extrahop-raises-41m-series-c-round-for-its-real-time-it-analytics-service/
  3. Frank, Blair. "Tech Moves: ExtraHop recruits F5 exec as CIO, Move gets new CEO, and more". GeekWire. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  4. "ExtraHop hires former Fluke Networks president as CEO". Seattle Times. July 26, 2016.
  5. "ExtraHop Debuts as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics". ExtraHop. February 27, 2017.
  6. "Seattle hybrid cloud security startup ExtraHop touts bookings growth, says it's on an IPO path". GeekWire. January 15, 2019.
  7. "ExtraHop is Named to Wealthfront's 2019 Career-Launching Companies List". ExtraHop. December 19, 2018.
  8. "ExtraHop Introduces Reveal(x) to Expose Attacks on Critical Assets and Automate Investigations".
  9. "ExtraHop to Bring Enterprise Network Traffic Analysis to the Cloud through Microsoft Azure".
  10. "How the ExtraHop Appliance Works".
  11. "ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence". NetworkWorld.com. 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
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