Sweet Security team (company pic)
Sweet Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup founded by former leaders of the Israeli military’s cybersecurity units and that offers a runtime security suite to “usher in a new era for cloud security,” raised $33 million in a Series A funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners. Sweet Security was established by retired IDF Brigadier General Dror Kashti (CEO), who served as the IDF’s CISO (chief information security officer), retired Colonel Eyal Fisher, former head of the Cyber Department at Unit 8200 (the IDF’s elite cybersecurity department) and Orel Ben-Ishay, former R&D Cybersecurity Group Leader at the IDF’s Special Operations Division.
A Runtime Security Suite (RSS) is a collection of security tools designed to protect applications, workloads, and software systems from security vulnerabilities and threats during their execution. In simpler terms, runtime security measures are implemented and monitored while the application is running, ensuring that all critical data and processes are secure.
Runtime security suites can help organizations to identify and address security vulnerabilities in their applications and workloads. This can help to improve the overall security posture of the organization and reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
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Runtime security suites can provide real-time visibility into the activity of applications and workloads. This can help organizations to detect threats quickly and take steps to respond to them before they can cause damage.
Sweet Security offers the first comprehensive runtime security suite for the cloud. Sweet’s solution shifts cloud security right, enabling security teams to strategically address cloud risks as they unfold. Sweet’s novel approach analyzes behavioral baseline anomalies, generating vital insights on incidents, vulnerabilities, posture, and non-human identities. Its sensor-based technology and application profiling cut through the cloud security noise and deliver actionable recommendations on critical, real-time cloud risks.
The cloud presents significant challenges relating to non-human identities: As such, Sweet is introducing first-to-market functionality into its runtime security suite: runtime posture enhancement and runtime NHI management. Using its novel sensor-based technology and Layer 7 capabilities, Sweet’s behavioral analysis reveals which machine was the origin of a chain of actions and for what purpose. Sweet’s novel technology completely upgrades an organization’s posture through runtime insights, as well as takes their NHI management to the next level.
“At first, our broad vision for cloud runtime security was met with skepticism, but we trusted our experience because we have lived the pain our customers experience every day and we knew we could build something they’d love,” said Dror Kashti, co-founder and CEO, Sweet Security. “This round is an incredible validation of our approach; it will enable us to expand our U.S. presence and make cloud runtime insights actionable across a wider set of practitioners.”
