The Silicon Review - Best Business Review Magazine 10 Best Security Companies 2019 | Page 36

Providing a Barrier
against Threats that
May Harm your Mobile
Endpoints: Zimperium
Shridhar Mittal | CEO
The Face of the Organization
Shridhar Mittal | CEO
Shridhar is the CEO of Zimperium. Previously he was the GM of the
Application Delivery business unit at CA Technologies (CA), where he
was responsible for creating the DevOps vision and establishing CA as a
leader in the high-growth space. At CA, Shridhar ran a global organization
and led the acquisition of Nolio. Shridhar came to CA with the successful
$330M acquisition of ITKO. Prior to ITKO, Shridhar had an 11-year career
with i2 Technologies in various roles including pre-sales leadership, sales
leadership, and various marketing and general management positions.
He finished his career with i2 as the Chief Marketing Officer.
C
ompanies can finally defeat
mobile security problems such
as device threats, network
threats, phishing and application-
based attacks with advanced
machine learning. To provide a
solution, Zimperium has helped
define the market and it now
stands as the #1 choice for Mobile
Security Solutions & Mobile Threat
Protection in the industry today.
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Zimperium, the global leader in
mobile device security, offers real-
time, on-device protection against
Android and iOS threats. The
Zimperium platform leverages its
award-winning machine learning-
based engine, z9, to protect mobile
data, apps and sessions against
device compromises, network
attacks, phishing attempts and
malicious apps. To date, z9 has
detected 100% of zero-day device
exploits without requiring an
update or suffering from the delays
APRIL 2019
and limitations of cloud-based
detection—something no other
mobile security provider can
claim. Headquartered in Dallas, TX,
Zimperium is backed by Warburg
Pincus, SoftBank, Sierra Ventures,
Samsung and Telstra.
In conversation with
Shridhar Mittal, CEO
What is the impact of cloud
and big data on a company’s
IT infrastructure and its
security today?
As more resources and corporate
information is moved to the cloud, it
will be accessed by various endpoint
devices. There are protections
in place to ensure traditional
endpoints are secure as part of
the access, but very little if any
protections are in place for mobile
endpoints (i.e. phones and tablets).
So the IT infrastructure, specifically
mobile, must adapt.
Artificial Intelligence
has been the buzzword,
and it will continue to hit
the stride. Do you think
enterprises should embrace
AI to drive much advanced
cyber security?
It depends on what you’re using AI
for, and what problem you are trying
to solve. In the case of endpoint
protection, AI makes a lot of sense.
Historically, endpoint protection
was accomplished through
signatures - - you had a large
signature database and you compare
that against potential threats
looking for a match. The rate at
which threats could morph as well
as the volume makes this approach
limited. Several new security
companies adopted AI as their base
platform to deliver better security
for traditional endpoints and they
are slowly replacing traditional
endpoint security solutions. In the
case of mobile, there is no legacy
installed base to move from so you
have the benefit of starting with
AI-based mobile security which is
perfectly suited for mobile given
the overall signature issue and also
some of the limitations you have on
mobile that don’t lend themselves to
large, overbearing security apps.