The number of machine identities is flourishing thanks to the growth of Cloud and AI – and it is real security problems by giving infiltrators more entry points than ever. For example, the cause of the penetration for the year 2023 was to apply OKTA Exploiting the service account While in 2024, Microsoft unveiled a major penetration based on an old test account.
Tokeen Security has been created through this type of safety risk: In a previous job, ITamar Apelblat found that the old service account for contractors still has full access across the entire institution. When I told Apelblat, the CEO now to Taken Security, his friend and now CTO IDO SHLOMO about the accident, agreed to address the spread of this type of non -human novels is very important.
Distinguished Security Code, which back It is hidden earlier this year and its foundation in 2023, now raised $ 20 million of funding from the A.C. Capital Capital (Golden Gate Ventures previously) led the tour with the participation of TLV partners and executives from Palo Alto Networks, Crowdstrike and Check Point, It is up to TOKEN’s total financing to $ 27 million.
TOKEN Security says its platform is looking through a fully staple technology for the company to automatically determine the identities of the machine and who is responsible for it, which helps customers to capture potential breaches before they happen. Most of the accidents that helped prevent the credentials that were old or have excessive internal access.
One of the main factors that drive the growth of the identity of the machine is that these types of calculations can be more likely to infiltrators than humans. After all, the person who uses the company usually leaves a clear external process for their login adopting data. But the accounts created during flying for specific projects, or aimed at sharing by many contractors, do not pass through these types of operations.
“The infiltrators are not interrupted. Apelblat told Techcrunch:” They log in. “The institutions have done a good job in securing human identities with things like multi -factor authentication, but automatic systems are different.”
The founders participating in the start of the military intelligence unit in the Israeli unit 8200, a prolific source of founders of the start of cybersecurity, such as those in Wiz, SNYK and APIIIRO, have met, for example, but not limited to.
Apelblat worked on defense security in the unit while CTO IDO SHLOMO led acts against national state representatives on the offensive side – that is, in fact entering the country of the enemy country to collect intelligence information or disrupt their operations.
“I and ITamar met 16 years ago when I helped him to connect his spaces on the first day when we are recruited in unit 8200,” Shlomo told Techcrunch: “We have been in great separation since then, as we are going through the service of the army, university and project organizing projects together.”
The safety of the machine identity is a hot field in the Internet. Last year, the Israel Oasis appeared from hiding $ 40 million to address similar issues. The largest space deal also occurred in 2024 when Israel acquired Venafi for $ 1.54 billion.
Token Security says it uses its new financing to transfer its main headquarters from Israel to the United States, with Apelblat move there next month. (The United States has the security market for the largest institutions in many Israel.) The company also plans to use financing to expand the capabilities of artificial intelligence in the platform and development of its executive team.
