Cybersecurity Startup Grey Noise Secures Seed Funding to Reduce Internet Background Noise

Summary: GreyNoise Intelligence, founded by Andrew Morris, announced a $600K seed financing led by Inner Loop Capital and StoneMill Ventures, with participation from Paladin Capital Group and angel investors including Oliver Friedrichs, Bryson Bort and Pedram Amini. The company identifies Internet background noise from benign sources - bots, crawlers, worms and search engines constantly scanning every connected machine - that inflates security alert volumes with false positives.
What's compelling: Morris's point is that without a baseline of expected traffic, analysts must assume everything hitting their network is aimed at them specifically, when hundreds of thousands of bots and crawlers probe every machine on the Internet regardless.

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