USA – dope.security, a Mountain View, CA-based fly-direct Secure Web Gateway (SWG), raised $4M in funding.
The round was led by boldstart ventures. boldstart General Partner Ed Sim and former Bluecoat and Symantec SVP Steven Schoenfeld are joining its Board of Directors.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations.Led by CEO Kunal Agarwal, dope.security provides a fly-direct Secure Web Gateway (SWG) that eliminates stopover datacenter and performs enterprise-grade security checks directly on the endpoint, improving performance, ensuring privacy and reliability when securing enterprises against web-based threats.The dope.swg enables seamless deployment, synchronization with Office 365 and Google for single sign-on and user imports enabling zero-trust policies, enforcement of endpoint-driven security controls including URL categorization, SSL inspection, Anti-Malware, Cloud Application Controls (CAC), and custom user-based policies – no stopover required, and visualization of data and gathering of end-user insights through a cloud-native console, including Productivity, Policy, and Shadow IT analyses, along with the ability to debug and run diagnostics remotely.14/09/2022