Observing new trends in the security capabilities of Web Browsers, our founder began exploring the powerful features that would boost website security, and provide valuable information to website owners.
After a year of Research and Development, Report URI was officially launched with only two features, CSP reporting and HPKP reporting!
After a full year of learning, and seeing tremendous growth in usage, we released a bunch of major updates. Included in those updates was our Report Filtering capabilities, designed to remove noise from your telemetry and deliver greater value. These filters evolved over time and still exist to this day.
As the number of users continued to grow, and the amount of telemetry we processed along with it, we introduced paid subscriptions to the platform to provide access to more features and larger volumes of telemetry where needed.
With Report URI having proved itself as a valuable product to hundreds of website operators, and demonstrating that it was commercially viable, we were joined by world-renowned Cybersecurity Expert, Troy Hunt! As our Strategic Partner, Troy would bring valuable knowledge, insight, and exposure to Report URI, to help fuel our growth.
Throughout 2018, we saw several high-profile cyberattacks against industry and government websites that made international news headlines. We were seeing a spike in exactly the kind of attacks that Report URI could help website operators defend against, and ultimately could have prevented.
Fueled by exceptional growth in 2017 and 2018, and now having full-time staff to drive R&D, we launched countless new features and capabilities to our platform for several years, along with being awarded 'Best Emerging Technology' at the coveted SC Awards.
Having covered all the capabilities supported by modern web browsers for website security, 2020 saw us continue to expand into the realm of email security. With DMARC reporting proving to be a big hit, the introduction of MTA-STS capabilities was a logical next step and has since become an integral part of our platform.
By the start of 2021, a criminal collective referred to as 'Magecart' had become notorious. Their attacks stole sensitive data from websites, costing organisations millions of dollars in fines from regulators alone. We began launching a dedicated suite of products to detect and stop these attacks, helping website operators fight back.
Following the enormous success of our 'Magecart' response, we continued to develop our capabilities. Now processing hundreds of millions of pieces of telemetry per-day, we began to curate and evolve our own internal Threat Intelligence feeds to leverage the huge amount of data at our fingertips and provide more value to our customers.
To solidify our industry position as a robust protection against 'Magecart', and all the copycat attacks emerging, we joined the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council as an Associate Participating Organisation. This outwardly demonstrates how serious we are about solving real security problems that our customers face on a day-to-day basis.
Having established our position as an industry leader, we focused on expanding the team to ensure that we could continue to deliver and continue to innovate. Paul Oggelsby was appointed as Chair of our Board of Directors, we brought on senior developer resources, expanded our sales and marketing presence, and much, much more!
In many ways, our vision is to continue doing what we do now: To deliver effective tooling that helps website operators protect against real threats.
To deliver that vision, we're continuing to invest in the R&D of new features and capabilities, we'll continue to expand the team with skilled and dedicated people, and we'll always work closely with our customers to ensure we're providing the best service that we can.