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BuildingSecurityBacked 2022

HCISS

Founded by Daniel Addison

A cybersecurity company selling threat detection, encryption and monitoring to critical infrastructure operators and to the smaller organizations the big vendors never call on.

What they do

Security spending follows the largest contracts, which leaves a lot of consequential systems uncovered. HCISS builds for those, combining AI analytics with a blockchain trust layer and quantum-resistant cryptography.

Who it's for

Critical infrastructure operators, small and mid-sized businesses, and in the company's own words, organizations legacy vendors ignore.

What's different

HCISS is developing threat-detection models that show the reasoning behind each alert, so a security team can check why it fired instead of trusting a black box.


What they've done, with sources
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