Cybeats Releases IoT Security, Monitoring App on Palo Alto Networks Framework

IoT security startup Cybeats announced that its IoT monitoring and security app, deemed IoT Radar, is now available on the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework. This news comes about a month after the startup raised $3 million in a seed round.Cybeats is a Toronto-based company that was founded in 2016. The startup was co-founded by three former Israeli IT Infosec employees: Dmitry Raidman, now Cybeats CEO, Peter Pinsker, now director of embedded systems, and Vlad Kharbash, now vice president of R&D.The company’s security product orchestrates security, monitoring, and firmware lifecycle management of IoT devices for smart buildings, enterprise, medical, and critical infrastructure. In a blog post introducing the company, Raidman wrote that Cybeats is “taking an entirely new approach to device security,” which is to secure, protect, and fix IoT devices.This requires Cybeats to work directly with device manufacturers as one of its offered services. The startup alerts device stakeholders to any vulnerability from third-party software by keeping an updated record vulnerabilities coming from third-party software libraries.The second phase, protect, is initiated by Cybeats “micro agents” that can be placed on the device before its ships. “The Cybeats microagent for firmware is analogous to the [human] body’s immune system,” wrote Raidman in an email to SDxCentral. “It detects threats, neutralizes them, and keeps the device healthy while alerting you if any additional intervention is required.” In addition, Cybeats uses these agents to collect cyber forensics data.