Armo, an Israeli-based security start-up, believes it can mitigate demanding situations of protecting software vulnerabilities and managing privileges with its new platform that aims at on-premises cloud computing environments. Today, Armo came out of stealth to announce that he has raised $4. 5. millions in Pitango First seed investment.
“The last five years of cloud workload have been dedicated to managing vulnerabilities and configuration errors,” said Shauli Rozen, CEO and co-founder of Armo, ventureBeat. “We now see corporations enter the runtime and face the realities of execution security and visibility and in their environments. And they see that existing computers just don’t work. “
Execution security refers to the concept that all IT activities performed in a container are checked for potential vulnerabilities. Containers and microservices are increasingly popular features for writing and deploying Internet applications, but security hasn’t kept up.
To avoid this, security groups have improvised responses such as a “look car”, which, as the call suggests, is software bolted to the look of the main application to manage security. But Rozen said this kind of technique is not valid. offering maximum visibility and can performance. For example, according to research into approximately four million Docker Hub photos, about 51% had exploitable vulnerabilities and 6,332 of the photos contained malware.
Instead, Armo has developed a platform called Workload Fabric that allows DevOps groups to incorporate security into programs as they write, and also provides a dashboard to monitor potential issues.
One of the merits of this technique is that Fabric can identify malicious code that has been inserted into an application, something that did not happen last year, when Russian hackers inserted malicious code into an application that was being distributed through updates. by SolarWinds. customers.
“Developers don’t have to replace the way they work, they just load our component, and then each and every microservices are integrated into that structure,” Rozen said.
Rozen co-founders Leonid Sandler and Benjamin Hirschberg had founded in the past NDS, which Cisco acquired for $5 billion.
Armo developed the platform with a handful of partners to refine the generation. Now he’s making the generation available to the public and will use the investment to launch his marketing efforts. Rozen is hopeful that DevOps groups will be excited about a service that will make them integrate security.
“A lot of other people say that [teams] DevOps don’t care about security,” Rozen said. “I don’t think that’s very true. They care about security, but they don’t need it to annoy them. “