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Socket lands a fresh $40M to scan software for security flaws
Socket, a company developing tech to scan software for security vulnerabilities and flaws, has raised $40 million in a Series B round.
“Even with rigorous internal code reviews, external dependencies introduce the risk of software supply chain attacks that are hard to detect and manage,” Aboukhadijeh continued. Socket’s solution is a scanner that looks for malicious activity, like backdoors and obfuscated code, in open source components, and alerts developers when dependencies and packages are updated or added. Socket, which has 32 employees today, plans to grow its team to 50 people by the end of the year with a focus on the engineering, product, design, and sales sides of the Stanford-based company.
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