About Us
Metaflows, Inc. is a California corporation founded by Livio Ricciulli, with significant help from Phillip Porras and Matt Jonkman. Livio and Phil collaborated at the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International where intrusion detection was first developed back in 1983. Following recent compelling research results and prior commercial success, the founders were commissioned by the National Science Foundation and The Army Research Office to commercialize recent, significant results in network security research through the founding of Metaflows. The resulting product (The Metaflows Security System or MSS) has been growing organically since then thanks to its strong technical differentiations. Most of the team members at Metaflows have an engineering background and are exclusively focused on product development and customer support.
What customers say about us
Read our verified customer reviews on Gartner Peer Insights
MetaFlows Security System
Cost effective Malware detection Solution for Cloud
We were looking out for an IPS solution for AWS and came across through Metaflows Malware Detection Solution. Its Cost effective, bit difficult to deploy but easy to understand solution. Malware detection capability is great.
MetaFlows Security System
Great system, easy to setup, great support
Metaflows does a great job in intrusion detection and prevention, and has stopped many new infections on our network from getting outside of the network. The interface itself could use some work, as far as ease of use, but once you can get around in the system it's not bad at all and full-featured. Their support is FANTASTIC, and they will quickly answer your call (I have never had a wait time) and immediately assist you in whatever you need. They are very, very knowledgeable about their product, and will help you tune your sensors to however you see fit.
MetaFlows Security System
Excellent product backed up by a team of experts
They were extremely helpful with installation and have gone above and beyond in providing quick and accurate support.
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- MetaFlows Announces Virtual Sandboxing in Amazon Cloud: Advanced Feature in MSS Delivers Unlimited Scalability for Sandboxes
- SC Magazine Review
- An IPS on Steroids
- SC Magazine Reviews: A Killer App
- SC Magazibe Innovators: Hall of Fame
- Payload and Event Reporting by MetaFlows CEO Livio Ricciulli, Part III
- MetaFlows Launches Low-cost SaaS Product That Unifies network Security
- Lowering the Cost of Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- MetaFlows Announces Software-Based IDPS, Enables IDPS Hardware for 1/10 the Price
- Network Security Performance Tuning by MetaFlows CEO Livio Ricciulli, Part II
- Network Security Monitoring Delivered Through a Software as a Service Model by MetaFlows CEO Livio Ricciulli, Part I
- It Takes a Cloud to Secure a Cloud
- MetaFlows Showcases a Novel Security-as-a-Service Approach at SC10 SCinet
- Livio Ricciulli Interviewed by Silicon Prairie News
CIO Review Magazine has selected MetaFlows as one of the top 20 Most Promising Enterprise Security Companies. In the article Cost Effectively Tackling Advanced Security Threats, MetaFlows' Chief Scientist Livio Ricciulli provides a road map for tackling the new security challenges facing Enterprises in the upcoming decade.
SC Magazine has inducted MetaFlows in the Industry Innovators: Hall of Fame.They write: "We were pleased that this Innovator continues to blaze the trail ahead for perimeter defense in an environment increasingly consisting of less and less perimeter to defend. The problem is a tough one and MetaFlows has brought creativity and insight to the solution. This is one of the most positive uses of the cloud for security purposes that we have seen in quite a while."
MetaFlows Deploys Network Defenses for the Entire Internet Community at Supercomuting.SCinet's Network Operation Center regularly uses the MetaFlows security system (MSS) as one of the key operational components in securing the conference’s leading-edge network infrastructure. MetaFlows' innovative network anti-virus, sand-boxing and real time behavioral analysis is deployed as a 64-core 10 Gbps appliance capable of sustaining deep-packet inspection and real time multi-session correlation up 5 Gbps.
Peter Stephenson from SC Magazine calls our product "an IPS on steroids". He writes: "The bottom line is that the MSS mixes the best of both the local sensor and the cloud-based analysis. Between these two functionalities MSS is able to deal with the here and now, as well as with emerging threats."
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We were selected as a finalist for the RedHerring Top 100 companies in North America. Our disruptive technology and rapid customer growth makes us one of the most compelling stories in the Industry. Metaflows is uniquely positioned to accelerate migration of enterprise network security monitoring and compliance verification to the cloud‐based SaaS architectures of the next decade.
Metaflows is the winner of a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation for the groundbreaking research and development by our CEO and chief research scientist, Livio Ricciulli. Metaflows enjoys a close collaboration with the Cyber-TA consortium, which is funded by the Army Research Office and boasts an outstanding roster of world-class scientists from across the country.
Supported in part by US Army Research Office Award W911NF-06-1-0316 MetaFlows has brought years of cyber-security research to market. The result is allowing Universities and Enterprises large and small to benefit from advanced threats detection techniques. BotHunter and its derivatives are today protecting numerous Government networks and spawn new, advanced techniques to defeat cyber-security criminals
In 2011, Metaflows was accepted as a Solutions Partner with Amazon Web Services . Metaflows can run on an Amazon EC2 instance and lets customers become security compliant in minutes.