Launch HN: Sqreen (YC W18) – Securing Web Apps

DRANK

Hi HN! I'm Pierre, the co-founder of Sqreen ( is an application security platform made for both engineering and security teams. We use dynamic instrumentation libraries that monitor web applications internals to detect security anomalies and block triggered vulnerabilities at runtime. Pretty much what an Application Performance Management tool (like New Relic) is doing, but for security.Before founding Sqreen, I led the Red Team (Offensive Security team) at Apple. I was brought on in 2006, so we're talking iMacs and iTunes at the time. The focus was initially on breaking DRM implementations (FairPlay). Over time, I had a team of 4-5 people, and had to cover most of Apple's portfolio. We needed to provide security assessments to hundreds of developers at Apple in ways that they could trust and find useful. We faced two major issues time and time again: scale (single digit team serving hundreds), and usefulness (how could we make security something that devs felt was actionable and rele…