Cost
3 trillion-dollar in costs*
Limited Coverage
70% of threats go undetected***
Shortage and cost of IT Experts
3.5 Million cyber security expert’s jobs unfulfilled by 2021****
Slow to react
Time to resolve attacks has risen 33%**
Duplicative Coverage
Overlaps with competitors ”one size fits all” products for end consumers and enterprises
Growing Problem
Cybercrime costs expected to double from 2015 to 2021 from 3 to 6 trillion dollars*
PolySwarm incentivizes rapid innovation in the $8.5B/year cyber threat intelligence space with precise economic incentives that reward a global community of security experts for timely and accurate malware identification.
| Antivirus* | PolySwarm | VirusTotal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decentralized | No | Yes | No |
| Crowdsourced | No | Yes | Limited |
| Cost Per Artifact | Medium | Low | High |
| Threat Coverage | Limited | Broad | Limited |
| Output Capacity | High | High | Medium |
| Real Time Analysis | Low | Low | No |
| Speed to React | Slow | Fast | N/A |
| Interoperable | No | Yes | N/A |
The PolySwarm team is a group of respected security experts with decades of experience in the industry, working with cutting-edge blockchain-based identity management project for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), several projects on behalf of DARPA and Fortune 100 companies.
Founder of Narf Industries with clients ranging from DARPA to Fortune 500.
Expert on vulnerability research and cryptography with extensive blockchain experience.
Ben has uncovered hundreds of vulnerabilities in widely-used products.
Substantial experience leading enterprise teams in real-world, large-scale digital forensics.
Experience in secure software engineering, vulnerability analysis, digital forensics, and reverse engineering.
Expert in marketing, digital analytics and product management for Fortune 100 companies.
A business development and marketing expert, practiced at selling technical services.
Expert in economics, big data, and advanced analytics with international, cross-industry experience.
You can find her work on more than 500 websites worldwide including Virgin, Forbes and Business Insider.
“I’m thrilled to be working with PolySwarm because they’re uniquely addressing an important issue in cyber security”
"PolySwarm is one of the most interesting ICOs to me personally. I'm excited to help PolySwarm build and secure tomorrow's threat intelligence market."
We envision that ETH derived from the sale of PolySwarm’s Nectar utility tokens (“NCT”) will be allocated in the following manner.
