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SquareX founder Vivek Ramachandran<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Ramachandran told TechCrunch that while running Pentester Academy, his customers complained about how often their security products were disabled by users because they got in the way of their productivity. For example, someone in the process of receiving of an important Word document from a contact would have that file flagged as malware and would end up disabling security software in order to view it. As a result, Ramachandran realized that many security products are actually counterproductive because they make people less likely to use them.<\/p>\n
As a result, he created SquareX, which does not block access to files or resources, even when they have been categorized as potentially malicious. Instead, it uses its disposable browsers. Ramachandran said SquareX is intended as a alternative to VPN, anti-virus, anti-malware and other endpoint security solutions.<\/p>\n
SquareX\u2019s disposable browsers enable anonymous browsing from any location. Users can \u201cdispose\u201d of it at anytime, which means no data is retained and the browser session is destroyed and removed from SquareX\u2019s servers immediately. Ramachandran said it is safer and more private than incognito mode because websites the user visits or files they download don\u2019t get stored in their computer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy creating disposable environments, SquareX ensures that a user\u2019s identity and data is decoupled when accessing the internet,\u201d he added. \u201cThis ensures that even the most sophisticated website trackers would fail to track and log the users activities and tie it to their identity.\u201d<\/p>\n
SquareX\u2019s go-to-market strategy will focus on the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia first.<\/p>\n
In a statement about the funding, Anandamoy Roychowdhary, Surge partner at Sequoia Southeast Asia, said, \u201cThe online world is about to get a whole lot worse as the AI revolution gets channeled towards building malicious code. Every cybersecurity solution out there is only probabilistically successful in protecting internet users, which is not of much comfort if they get hacked and lose money. SquareX is the first solution we\u2019ve seen that takes a 100% protection approach\u2013where irrespective of how new and sophisticated the attack is, it has no chance to infect users. This is the future we think all internet users deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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