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Garrison
Founded: 2014
Funds raised to date: £16m
HQ: London
Field: Secure remote browsing
Cheerleader: Jonathan Lassman, Epaton
Having raised £16m in funding in its short life, Garrison is "changing the face of web filtering", according to Jonathan Lassman, managing director of storage VAR Epaton.
Founded in 2014 by two former BAE bigwigs, London-based Garrison specialises in secure remote browsing, where the user's browser runs on a completely separate and isolated computer. If the browser is compromised, the attacker has no access to the user's device or other sensitive data or systems, Garrison claims.
Lassman (pictured) is preparing to move back into the cybersecurity space in March and described Garrison as "one of the most amazing things I've seen in years".
"Imagine an appliance where you've got a row of ARM processors at the front and a row of ARM processors behind," he said. "You put in a URL request and then the first row goes out to the web and it plays video to the second row. You are now not on the internet: you are watching the internet in real time."
Garrison has scored funding from the British Growth Fund and Touchstone Innovations, and claims to already have clients in the banking, insurance, media, law and government sectors.
"It's going through CESG approval because now the government can go on the dark web, because they're not actually on the dark web. Everything is pretty low key for them at the moment, but I'm excited by it," Lassman said.
"We're not in the security space yet, but we are still keeping our toe in the water and want to be ready to take on the latest technologies in March."
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