When it comes to the world of cybersecurity, identity is often seen as a “ocean” around the organization. A lot of violations begin with techniques such as a password stealing, hunting, and accreditation data filling; Ergo, who provides user identities not only, but also applications and machines, is the key to the entire system insurance.
He said it is easier than doing – as the last security violation of the US Treasury was shown. now, Holding security -One of the tools for building startups to focus on the space on the non-human identity (the machine)-announces 20 million dollars in financing, which confirms the demand in the market to address this problem.
Signalfire leads this round with participation from LightSpeed Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures, current supporters who invested in the previous seed round of $ 8.5 million. Clutch said it would use research, development, product development and expand the development of their business.
The Clutch Today contains integration with approximately 60 services, applications and identity on the infrastructure that provides the most popular in institutions. It guarantees a variety of data you use to interact with each other, including API keys, service accounts, “secrets”, symbols and other credentials. The Clutch platform provides services such as network vision, position, risk management, and life cycle management, through a zero confidence approach. There is a room to cover much more: the average number of identities of the machine in a large model institution in the past two years, from 320,000 in 2022 to a million in 2024, according to the research from Technology (Holding competitor).
The concentration of the clutch on the ocean violations, by coincidence, came into existence at the present time when another ocean was violated. Tel Aviv Startup was founded in October 2023, more or less in the aftermath of Israel being attacked by Hamas and its role in the war in Gaza.
“In the picture above; said Har Chen to the left)-that building a company at that moment was a blessing and curse. On the one hand, people were very dispersed and passed because of the events that were unfolded, and many were simply not available to work, as they were entering into sites that support the situation on hand, and many of them join the army. On the other hand, for those who were working, they definitely focused their minds.
He said that the company struggled to employ anyone initially, with its first employees finally taken in February. But then, she built its first minimum product in just three months. “I would like to say that we may have one of the best engineering teams in Israel, because they are all ancient warriors in space,” he said. Har Chen is among these veterans: He spent 20 years Work through a set of technical and executive roles of cybersecurity, whether within the Israeli government or in private companies. (Has and Kimhi in the meantime there are young men from a nervous axis, another electronic company.)
Meanwhile, the problem that Clutch decided to follow is “an old one at the time of time”, Har Chen continued. He said that Windows Active Directory was examples of the place of exploiting machine identities by the fierce infiltrators, and they have been operated since 1994. “There is nothing new here.” He added that the emergence of cloud computing and the explosion of programs as a service as a basic way used by applications, “has exacerbated the problem.”
Add to this the introduction of artificial intelligence, specifically the agents of artificial intelligence, which has become the latest goal for the malicious wicked.
He said: “I think we see the pendulum swinging from man as the weakest link, non -human, or device.” “Artificial intelligence agents are now being adopted quickly in the institution, to replace the manual tasks that humans have done.” He said he believed that there will be a greater flow now for attacks aimed at solving these factors, “just a spread of attacks.”
Holding away from the first company to determine the problems here. The crowded market such as Semperis, which was collected last year with a billion -dollar evaluation of only focus on this old issue of Active Directory; Astrix security, which 45 million dollars raised Last December; Oasis, a loud Israeli startup that raised 40 million dollars a year ago; Cyberark, which acquired the security company from the machine to the machine in Venafi for more than $ 1.5 billion last year; Silverfort, which takes a comprehensive approach to identity; And symbolic security, which also raised $ 20 million before.
The speed with which the clutch is built is one of the reasons that make investors specially interested in this young woman (or besides) all these other things. “What the clutch has achieved at this short time is great – they are not only building a leading platform, but are reshaping the entire industry,” said Guru Shal. “Their work is already pushing cyber security forward in meaningful ways, and since the institutions begin to embrace AIC AI, I think the clutch will be transformed.”
