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Black Hat Trip 2022 – Perception Point

By Karen Krivaa, Chief Marketing Officer

What is Perception Point?

Perception Point was founded in 2015 by three innovators who served in elite cyber units in the Israeli
Intelligence Corps. They initially developed and patented a technology focused on Zero-days and N-
days; highly dangerous advanced persistent threats (APTs), which are extremely hard to detect and even
harder to prevent. The HAP™ (hardware-assisted platform) was born. HAP is a dynamic scanning engine
(next-gen sandbox) that detonates content on Windows and macOS, leveraging CPU Tracing to, in near
real-time, detect malware and zero-day attacks at the exploit stage, in a deterministic manner without
relying on known signatures, or historical data.

Perception Point leveraged this game-changing technology as just one of its multi-layered advanced
detection engines along with isolation capabilities to build a comprehensive SaaS solution that isolates,
detects, and remediates any content-borne attack across an organization’s main attack vectors, including
email, cloud collaboration apps and web browsers.

Perception Point has been built as one platform that detects and prevents all threats including phishing,
BEC, ATO, malware, ransomware, APTs and zero-days and spam, well before they reach enterprise
users. Cloud-native by design, Perception Point is deployed with a few clicks in just minutes, with no

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