Open-source cybersecurity company Filigran has established a Japanese entity. It held an establishment event in Tokyo on 9 April, where its co-founders and others explained the company's business and the roles of OpenCTI and OpenAEV.
Open-source cybersecurity vendor Filigran announced the formal launch of its sales operations in Japan and held an event in Tokyo on 9 April to mark the establishment of its Japanese entity. The event featured co-founder Julien Richard, head of the Japanese entity Maya Toda (戸田麻弥), and head of sales Sebastien Boitelle, who gave presentations introducing the company and its products.
Richard explained that Filigran's software is available as open source and described its approach to proactive defense, which involves understanding attackers' intentions and taking countermeasures. He said that conventional measures taken only after an incident occurs are difficult to use against sophisticated attacks employing generative AI.
The publicly available core software products OpenCTI and OpenAEV stand for open Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversary Exposure Verification, respectively. OpenCTI serves as the center of defense, while OpenAEV is used to test attack scenarios, the company explained. Both are available free of charge as open-source software, and enterprise editions are also available.
Filigran was founded in 2022 and has completed substantial fundraising through Series C. It currently has approximately 6,000 customer companies and more than 240 employees worldwide, with the United States, France and the United Kingdom cited as its main markets outside Japan. The company emphasized that it is receiving considerable interest in the Japanese market and that the local community is leading Japanese-language support.