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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – August 7, 2023 – Cequence Security, the leading provider of Unified API Protection (UAP), today shared details of its growth during the second half of FY23. Cequence’s unique approach to uncovering and preventing API threats that can lead to fraud, business logic attacks and data loss has resulted in the company protecting $9 trillion in assets among Fortune/Global 500 companies and more than two billion user accounts worldwide. In addition, 24% of the Fortune 500 are customers of Cequence.
Cequence achieved several major milestones in the second half of FY23, including a 555% growth in customer expansion, 230% growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR), 300% growth in new customer logo acquisition and an expanded footprint into new countries and verticals.
The company secured investments from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and Prosperity7 Ventures to accelerate product innovation, keep up with increasing demand and expand the secure connectivity needed to mitigate business interruptions and bring peace of mind to enterprises. Most recently, Cequence secured two additional investments from Sanabil Investments, to further the company's expansion into the Middle East and The Cash Catalyst, to further help CISOs, CIOs and other executives struggling with discovering and protecting their APIs.
“We are extremely pleased with the rapid adoption of our Unified API Protection platform by some of the largest organizations in the world,” said Ameya Talwalkar, founder and CEO of Cequence. “Our ability to increase valuation, raise funds and drive extensive growth across our customer base and ARR in this tough macroeconomic market is a testament to our comprehensive product offering and proven ability to land and expand at some of the largest enterprises in the world.”
“Cequence has rapidly emerged as a key and influential player in the API security market. Most recently, we were recognized as a best-in-class vendor in the recent API Security Evaluation report, earning one of the highest product scores in the history of Datos Insights evaluation reports,” continued Talwalkar.
Throughout the second half of FY23, the company also successfully implemented a strategic product update, expanded into new geographic markets and garnered prestigious awards and certifications, including:
• Enhancements to the Unified API Protection platform: With the latest Unified API Protection (UAP) platform updates, organizations can now protect their users from online fraud, operationalize security findings with low-code/no-code API SOAR-like workflows and rapidly deploy API Security Testing with built-in Generative AI automation. These capabilities continue to set Cequence apart from other point API security, bot management, anti-fraud and WAF vendors by having the industry’s first and only Unified API Protection platform that covers the entire API lifecycle. With UAP, customers can discover with API Spyder, comply with API Sentinel and protect with API Spartan.
• Increased Protection and Intelligence from the CQ Prime Threat Research Team: In the second half of 2023, the team saw traffic increase more than 3X year-over-year, mitigated more than 38 billion malicious API transactions, protected 50% more users and topped out with protecting 30 million unique user accounts in March. The industry-leading intel database grew 23%, with intelligence on more than 75 million malicious attacker IP addresses and more than 600,000 being ingested every day.
• Geographic Expansion: Cequence announced the appointment of Glen Maloney as ANZ Country Lead to accelerate the company’s expansion in Australia and New Zealand. Cequence also opened a new office in India and appointed Robin Panwala as its first functional leader and head of India.
• Industry Accolades: Cequence’s Unified API Protection solution was named the gold winner for “API Management,” “Full Life Cycle API Management” and “IT Solutions for Retail” categories in the 2023 Globee® Awards for Information Technology.
• Industry Recognition: Cequence was recognized as a “best-in-class” solution in the Datos Insights Vendor Evaluation: API Security Solutions report, earning one of the highest product scores in the history of Datos Insights vendor evaluation reports.
• Increased Customer Growth and User Adoption: New customers included the biggest supermarket chain in Australia, the largest Telecom company in the Nordic and Baltic region, one of the largest airline companies and most valuable brands in Europe and one of the largest global providers of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions.
• Certifications: Cequence announced it achieved ISO 27001 certification for the information security management system in support of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). This certification gives clients peace of mind that Cequence’s policies, processes and standards fulfill the stringent security and compliance criteria for protecting customer data.
• Advisors: Cequence added Dr. James I. Cash to its strategic advisory board.
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