Orion Security Team (from website)
Orion Security, an Israeli startup that offers an advanced AI-driven data protection platform, has successfully raised $6 million in a Seed funding round. The investment was led by Pico Partners and FXP, with additional support from Underscore VC and prominent cybersecurity experts, including the founders of Perimeter 81 and the CISO of Elastic.
Founded in 2024 by CEO Nitay Milner, former product leader at Cisco-acquired Epsagon, and CTO Yonatan Kreiner, former application security lead at WalkMe, Orion Security is already gaining traction among leading technology companies. With its cutting-edge AI technology, Orion is set to redefine cybersecurity and data protection for enterprises worldwide.
AI-powered data security is revolutionizing threat detection and response, delivering superior accuracy and efficiency. Orion Security employs intelligent automation to pinpoint risky data flows, adapt security policies in real-time, and minimize both false positives and negatives. This allows your security team to concentrate on critical vulnerabilities. Elevate your security operations with AI, gaining deeper contextual understanding, sharper analytical insights, and proactive, scalable defense.
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The rise of generative AI has significantly amplified these risks, as highlighted by Samsung banning employees from using ChatGPT after internal source code was leaked, and coming to the fore again with DeepSeek’s growing popularity. The threat extends beyond accidental exposure, as demonstrated by North Korean state-sponsored groups placing fake IT employees within organizations to steal sensitive data. With the average cost of breaches rising to nearly $5M in 2024, data protection has become the top challenge for CISOs in dynamic cloud environments where traditional security perimeters are increasingly obsolete.
“Today’s data protection tools are failing because they lack the crucial business context needed to understand what’s truly risky,” said Nitay Milner, CEO and co-founder of Orion Security. “By using AI to map and understand an organization’s operational DNA, we’re enabling a new generation of data protection that can accurately distinguish between legitimate business workflows and potential data theft, without burdening already overstretched security teams.”
Under the hood, Orion’s platform connects to an organization’s cloud services, browsers, and devices to create a comprehensive map of how data moves throughout the business. The platform’s Indicators of Leakage (IOL) engine utilizes proprietary reasoning models to analyze patterns in data movement and usage while leveraging LLM classification to understand context. It automatically detects potential data breaches, while seamlessly integrating with existing security tools. This approach enables Orion to identify risky activities without overwhelming security teams with false alerts, all while requiring minimal configuration and maintenance.
