Grey Noise Intelligence reveals its Series A fundraise.

Summary: GreyNoise closed a $15M Series A round led by Radian Capital, five years after founder Andrew Morris started the company in 2017 to build a global sensor network that collects and analyzes internet scanning data. The company says it serves more than 2,000 organizations through its community product and over 100 enterprise customers, plus government and non-profit organizations, and will use the funding to cut noisy alerts and build products aimed at preventing mass-exploitation traffic.
Why it matters: The post states that anyone with a computer can scan all 4.2 billion IPv4 addresses in five minutes and exploit them within hours, so every internet-connected machine sees reconnaissance traffic from tens of thousands of distinct devices each day - the volume behind the alert fatigue the company is selling against.

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