The success continues for GREYCORTEX. This time, the team was first overall at the Pitch Competition at the 3rd Annual European Cybersecurity Forum held in Krakow, Poland on October 10th and 11th, 2017. The event featured cybersecurity-focused speakers from government and industry across Europe, as well as several from North America.
The Pitch Competition, held on Monday afternoon, as part of the Forum, featured 16 companies from Central and Eastern Europe. As winners, GREYCORTEX received the chance to present MENDEL on the main conference stage to a full audience. The pitch presentation itself focused on the overall costs of data breach – not only in data loss – but in lost business reputation, opportunity, and brand value, demonstrating GREYCORTEX MENDEL’s ability to detect advanced persistent threats in the network, as well as it’s founding – with generous support from YSoft Ventures – and its membership in the ESET Technology Alliance.

GREYCORTEX took home the top prize in its category at the Czech Finals of the 2017 Central European Startup Awards (CESA). The Czech final,  held on September 25th in Prague, recognized GREYCORTEX as the Best AI Startup in the country.
The Central European Startup Awards is a series of national events in the CEE countries, recognizing and celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit and startup ecosystems of the region. Having been successful in the AI Startup category in the Czech Republic, GREYCORTEX now competes in the Regional Finals, to be held in Sofia Bulgaria on November 23rd. GREYCORTEX was successful at least year’s Regional Final, winning “Best Newcomer” in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
A list of CESA Czech Winners in 2017 may be found at: http://centraleuropeanstartupawards.com/season-2017/czech-republic-national-winners

Excellent news from Brno!
GREYCORTEX is proud to announce that we have been named as part of the ESET Technology Alliance. In addition to complimenting ESET’s existing endpoint security solutions – by addressing traffic within the network, this relationship means that GREYCORTEX MENDEL is now available through all ESET partners, worldwide. You can read our full press release below:

GREYCORTEX Joins ESET Technology Alliance

Brno, Czech Republic – GREYCORTEX, advanced network security solutions provider, is happy to announce that it has been named as a part of the ESET Technology Alliance which provides holistic protection against advanced cyber threats. Launched in 2013, the ESET Technology Alliance is an integration partnership that aims to better protect businesses by offering a range of complementary IT security solutions. All members of the ESET Technology Alliance are carefully vetted against a set of established criteria to extend “best-in-class” business protection across IT environments.
Through the ESET Technology Alliance partnership, MENDEL, GREYCORTEX’s network traffic analysis solution, is now available to enterprise customers through all ESET partners. MENDEL uses advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analysis to detect threats to enterprise, government, and critical infrastructure networks that other network security solutions miss. It is able to offer rapid detection and response to network security teams, but also gives them the security to know that they can efficiently monitor network performance and visualize the entire network up to, and including the application layer.
“Providing effective network security is continually evolving. Security analysts need to be able to identify not just threats like viruses, but also advanced persistent threats like malware, RATs, Trojans, and Zero-day attacks. Analysts also need to know that they have full network visibility on every device and application in the network. MENDEL provides complete network visibility and detailed insight into application and network performance, so that security teams can identify threats before they do damage,” said Petr Chaloupka, CEO, GREYCORTEX.
GREYCORTEX compliments ESET’s existing endpoint security solutions, by addressing traffic within the network. “There are never enough layers of security for one’s network infrastructure,” said Jeronimo Varela, Director of Global Sales at ESET. “The GREYCORTEX solution provides an analysis of any behavioral anomalies that may go unnoticed. Moreover, the solution is easily integrated into the infrastructure of businesses of any size and can work not only as a detection or monitoring tool, but also to provide visibility into the  functionality of additional security components.”
For more details about GREYCORTEX’s solution MENDEL, please click here.
More information about the ESET Technology Alliance can be found here.
About GREYCORTEX
Built on a decade of extensive industry and academic experience, GREYCORTEX uses advanced machine learning and data analysis to help protect sensitive data, networks, trade secrets, and reputations. In addition to the ESET Technology Alliance, serves customers in over 14 countries through its own distributor network. In 2016 GREYCORTEX received an investment of 1.3 million USD from Y Soft Ventures, a venture capital arm of leading enterprise office solution provider Y Soft.
About ESET
For 30 years, ESET® has been developing industry-leading IT security software and services for businesses and consumers worldwide. With solutions ranging from endpoint and mobile security, to encryption and two-factor authentication, ESET’s high-performing, easy-to-use products give consumers and businesses the peace of mind to enjoy the full potential of their technology. ESET unobtrusively protects and monitors 24/7, updating defenses in real-time to keep users safe and businesses running without interruption. Evolving threats require an evolving IT security company. Backed by R&D centers worldwide, ESET becomes the first IT security company to earn 100 Virus Bulletin VB100 awards, identifying every single “in-the-wild” malware without interruption since 2003. For more information visit www.eset.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

For the second year in a row, GREYCORTEX has been nominated as a National Finalist at the Central European Startup Awards (CESA) – http://centraleuropeanstartupawards.com. The awards select the best startups from across 10 Central European countries, with the winners qualifying to go forward to the Global Startup Awards.
Last year, GREYCORTEX won Best Early Stage Startup, given in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This year, GREYCORTEX is nominated in three categories:

• Startup of the Year
• Best AI Startup
• Best Newcomer

The Czech winners will be announced at the Czech National Finale on September 25th in Prague. Public voting GREYCORTEX in these three categories is currently open, and may be found here: http://centraleuropeanstartupawards.com/vote

The team from GREYCORTEX was selected as one of only five Czech high technology companies to attend the CEE Innovators Summit in Warsaw, Poland on March 27-28 2017. The conference focused on innovation ecosystem in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries – Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. It’s purpose was to highlight the need for greater innovation and investment in the V4 Group, and included a signing by the Prime Ministers of each of the four countries of the “Warsaw Declaration” – a statement of intent by each of the V4 countries to undertake the development of an innovative economy in the region.
The event brought together not only government officials, but press, investors, innovators, and other interested groups to the Służewiec Racetrack in Warsaw. At the conference, GREYCORTEX was represented by Pavel M. Chmelař and Milan Kaděra, who presented GREYCORTEX MENDEL, our innovative network security solution based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, which finds network threats that traditional security network security solutions miss.

If you are interested in finding out more about the conference itself, you can find it here: http://ceeinnovatorssummit.pl/en/

Press coverage from the Czech Republic can be found here: http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-65675460-visegradska-ctyrka-se-ma-stat-rajem-inovaci-premieri-domlouvaji-spolecnou-podporu-vedy-i-start-upu (in Czech)

Leading European start-up blog “EU-Startups.com” has identified GREYCORTEX as one of “7 Czech Startup to Look For in 2017.” The website, an authority on the European startup ecosystem, has published a list of its selections for leading Czech startups since 2015, and has included well-known companies like Kiwi.com (formerly “Skypicker”) in previous editions. Article author Pavel Curda notes the advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analysis components of GREYCORTEX MENDEL which set us apart from other network security products.
Developed after several years of academic and market research, and based on technology which won four US-based NIST Challenges in a row, MENDEL uses artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to identify advanced persistent threats which commonly deployed network security solutions often miss. While several other solutions in the market which claim to focus on meeting advanced threats, MENDEL is unique in that it provides exceptionally deep network visibility, combined with the ability to differentiate between human and machine behavior. This allows IT security teams to spot more threats as they emerge, and take action.
You can read the full article here: http://www.eu-startups.com/2017/02/7-czech-startups-to-look-out-for-in-2017/

GREYCORTEX won the national round in the Central European Startup Awards (CESAwards) 2016. Subsequently, GREYCORTEX is going to compete with other national winners from CEE that have also shown a promising growth, in the Grand Finale held on the 1st of December, 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The Central European Startup Awards is a competition of startup enthusiasts, serial entrepreneurs, investors and ecosystem in ten Central and Eastern European countries.
National Winners 2016: http://centraleuropeanstartupawards.com/national-winners-2016

GREYCORTEX took home the top prize in its category at the 2016 Central European Startup Awards (CESA) Grand Finale. The Grand Finale, held on December 1st in in Ljubljana, Slovenia, recognized GREYCORTEX as having the most promising growth ahead of startups from nine other Central European countries including Austria, Poland, and Slovakia.
The Central European Startup Awards is a series of national events in the CEE countries, recognizing and celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit and startup ecosystems of the region. CESA regional winners must first win their category in their home country to be eligible for the regional title. Regional winners, like GREYCORTEX, are automatically shortlisted for the World Startup Awards, held this year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A list of CESA Grand Finale Winners in 2016 may be found at: http://centraleuropeanstartupawards.com/cesa-2016-winners