美国网络安全初创企业筹资创新高

Cyber security start-ups raised more than $1bn for the first time in a single quarter as investors bet on them benefiting after several high profile attacks by hackers on large companies.

网络安全初创企业首次在一个季度就筹集逾10亿美元。在黑客对大公司发起多次备受瞩目的网络攻击后，投资者押注此类企业将会受益。

Venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, as well as VC arms of banks and technology companies, are pouring money into the sector as they anticipate rapid growth in cyber security budgets.

由于预期网络安全预算会迅猛增长，包括安德森•霍洛维茨基金(Andreessen Horowitz)和凯鹏华盈(Kleiner Perkins)在内的风投公司、以及各银行和高科技企业的风投部门，正向该行业大举投资。

Demand for these services are expected to soar after high levels of publicity for recent attacks on big companies from Sony Pictures to Home Depot.

在索尼影视娱乐(Sony Pictures)和家得宝(Home Depot)等大企业近期遭遇网络攻击，并被舆论高调曝光后，对网络安全服务的需求预计会出现激增。

funding for cyber security companies hit $1.02bn in the first quarter, up from $540m for the first three months of last year and almost double the same period of 2014, according to data from private company research firm PrivCo.

根据私企研究公司PrivCo的数据，今年第一季度网络安全企业筹集的资金达到10.2亿美元，接近去年同期5.4亿美元筹资规模的两倍。

This came on top of an already buoyant 2014, in which security start-ups hit $2.3bn in funding, up more than a third from the year before. Four years ago, total annual funding was less than $1bn.

对网络安全初创企业来说，2014年原本就相当热火，它们在该年筹资23亿美元，比前一年高了逾三分之一。在四年前，全年筹资规模还不到10亿美元。

Sam Hamadeh, chief executive of PrivCo, said the record levels of funding were spurred by ramped up corporate spending and predictions that smartphone security was becoming a serious problem for companies whose employees deal in sensitive data from their mobiles.

PrivCo首席执行官山姆•哈马登(Sam Hamadeh)表示，根据预测，对于那些员工用手机处理敏感数据的企业来说，智能手机的安全正成为一个严重问题，这项预测加上企业增加相关支出，推动着网络安全行业的筹资规模达到创纪录水平。