RSAC<\/a> and is announcing a $3 million seed while it\u2019s at it.<\/p>\nVrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder, says his company has developed a unique solution to protect cloud native applications without instrumentation. \u201cOperant is the first runtime application protection platform. And what that means is, we can prevent lateral attacks and data breaches by securing cloud native applications from the inside out,\u201d Bhavsar told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n
Priyanka Tembey, CTO and co-founder, says that the solution helps security teams build guard rails for runtime applications as they are being developed. \u201cOperant customers can install Operant within their dev staging and production Kubernetes environments, and we start learning about their application interactions, service-to-service interactions, API interactions, as well as data flows at runtime, so when they are running live in the production environments. And then we are able to apply those learnings back into the dev staging environments, as well to start protecting the applications and the API\u2019s from the get-go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
This means that companies use Operant across the development process including the development tooling, the CI\/CD pipeline, the API gateways and the containers and micro services themselves. Tembey admits they are covering a lot of ground, but that\u2019s the idea. \u201cThe product does a lot of things today, and that\u2019s where we actually see the application security direction going because applications in the cloud tend to be multilayer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
That requires a comprehensive approach to keep the application secure. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the application, but then it\u2019s the container, it\u2019s the microservice layer, it\u2019s the API, the data flow layer and so on. And so we interface at different layers of the applications with our technology and are able to get the right telemetry, and by that I mean the right data, the operational data about what is happening at those layers\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Operant has the intelligence to put all of that data and those context streams together. \u201cAnd it creates live API catalogs, service interaction maps for customers, and then through enforcements it interacts with different layers in the Kubernetes as well as in the cloud layers to actually protect those APIs and those data flows by enforcing the security policies that customers approve or create through our product,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The company launched in 2020, and began building the product in 2021. It took some time to build a product of this complexity. They began working with design partners last year and are emerging today and companies can begin signing up to use the product. The startup has six people right now with plans to perhaps double that this year. With two women co-founders \u2014 CMO Ashley Roof is also part of the founding team \u2014 the company cares deeply about building a diverse organization as they scale up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very passionate about diversity. As you can tell, there are two women on the founding team and just building that diverse team from the ground up is very important to us,\u201d Tembey said.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s $3 million investment was led by Felicis. The company previously raised a $500,000 pre-seed round, bringing the total raised to $3.5 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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