O'Reilly Media-backed cybersecurity company Signal Sciences publicly launched its web app firewall while disclosing $9.7m of series A funding.

Signal Sciences, a US-based cybersecurity startup backed by media group O’Reilly Media, has disclosed that it raised $9.7m in a 2015 series A round led by venture capital firm Index Ventures.

Signal Sciences announced the funding at the same time as it publicly launched its product, a firewall for web applications that blocks cyberattacks across cloud, physical and containerised infrastructure.

The company did not reveal the other series A investors, but the round follows a $2m seed round in…