Permiso, a provider of cloud identity detection and response for cloud infrastructure, emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding. The Palo Alto-based startup is the latest entrant in cloud security, which is becoming a top priority for organizations after rapidly increasing cloud adoption to support employees working remotely.
Permiso founders and former FireEye executives Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin tie the future of cloud security to the effective management and tracking of identities. This includes being able to identify who is using the cloud environment and monitoring all activities related to those identities. Permiso said its platform will identify and track the identities of people, machines, vendors and service providers in infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service environments.
“As engineering and infrastructure teams aggressively adopt public cloud, security teams are being overwhelmed by the millions of activities and changes that human and machine identities undergo every day,” Nguyen and Martin Write on company blog.
Permiso says it will highlight who or what is in the cloud environment, identify what identities are doing, and assess whether that behavior is expected or potentially malicious. Customers will be able to use Permiso to detect credential abuse and understand how to use identity as part of their incident response activities, the company said.
According to the co-founders, businesses can gauge the maturity of their cloud security programs by measuring progress against identity and access management goals and change management goals, such as implementing secure access controls and reducing human-driven changes.
In a blog post, Nguyen and Martin cited Jason Chan, who led Netflix’s cybersecurity program for 10 years. “Identity is as close as a panacea in the cloud,” Chan said. “If you get it wrong, you face significant risks and challenges in effectively securing your business.”
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