Confer Technologies

Confer Technologies, Inc. was an enterprise endpoint security company that marketed what it called the "Converged Endpoint" — a single lightweight sensor combining attack prevention, detection, and incident response across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and mobile devices. The product gathered endpoint telemetry across the enterprise and applied data science to analyze attacker behavior and adapt automatically, positioned as an EDR and next-generation antivirus alternative for organizations without large security teams. Confer was venture-backed (Matrix Partners, Foundation Capital) and raised roughly $17M before being acquired by Carbon Black in 2016. Its site at confer.net began permanently redirecting to carbonblack.com by mid-2016 and the domain no longer resolves to a host. Carbon Black was subsequently acquired by VMware (2019) and then by Broadcom (2023). Confer never published a public developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API artifacts; this profile is retained as a historical record of an acquired company and has no live API surface to enrich.

Confer Technologies is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, B2B, Security, Endpoint Security, and Cybersecurity.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company B2B Security Endpoint Security Cybersecurity Endpoint Detection and Response Antivirus Acquired Defunct

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: confer
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/confer.png
name: Confer Technologies
description: Confer Technologies, Inc. was an enterprise endpoint security company that marketed what it called the "Converged
  Endpoint" — a single lightweight sensor combining attack prevention, detection, and incident response across endpoints,
  servers, cloud workloads, and mobile devices. The product gathered endpoint telemetry across the enterprise and applied
  data science to analyze attacker behavior and adapt automatically, positioned as an EDR and next-generation antivirus alternative
  for organizations without large security teams. Confer was venture-backed (Matrix Partners, Foundation Capital) and raised
  roughly $17M before being acquired by Carbon Black in 2016. Its site at confer.net began permanently redirecting to carbonblack.com
  by mid-2016 and the domain no longer resolves to a host. Carbon Black was subsequently acquired by VMware (2019) and then
  by Broadcom (2023). Confer never published a public developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API artifacts;
  this profile is retained as a historical record of an acquired company and has no live API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/confer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- matrix-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Carbon Black
x-acquired-year: 2016
x-successor: https://www.broadcom.com/products/carbon-black
x-defunct-domain: confer.net
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-21'
tags:
- Company
- B2B
- Security
- Endpoint Security
- Cybersecurity
- Endpoint Detection and Response
- Antivirus
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/carbon-black/
  name: Carbon Black
  x-relationship: acquisition
  x-generated-by: broadcom-family:2026-08-21
  x-acquired: 2016
- type: Archive
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20160329013100/https://www.confer.net/
- type: Successor
  url: https://www.broadcom.com/products/carbon-black
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: Company is acquired/defunct; confer.net does not resolve and published no API surface. No artifacts could be searched,
    generated, or derived without fabrication.
x-parent: carbon-black
x-relationship: acquisition
x-acquired: 2016

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