Security News > 2020 > March > Insurance Giant Munich Re Invests in Rogue Device Mitigation Firm Sepio Systems
Rockville, Maryland-based startup Sepio Systems, a rogue device mitigation firm, has raised a further $4 million that supplements the Series A round of $6.5 million announced in November 2019.
The current chairman of the board, Tamir Pardo, was formerly the director of Mossad, while another advisor is a former CISO with the CIA. The service provided by Sepio is to detect and mitigate any rogue device that has been attached to the corporate infrastructure.
Sepio Systems detects devices connected to the network that should not be there, whether they be keyboards, USB sticks, webcams or even scanners.
"Generally speaking," Appleboum, told SecurityWeek, "People don't consider devices like mice or keyboards as potential rogue devices posing a security threat - but it does happen. Sepio recently discovered a rogue mouse that was used to communicate with a C&C in order to deliver a ransomware attack; and another one that was used to exfiltrate proprietary information from a highly secure facility."
If a criminal group were to swap the official device for a compromised one, then the fingerprint changes to something unrecognized, and the device is flagged.