Kong announced the launch of the latest version of Kong AI Gateway, which introduces new features to provide the AI security and governance guardrails needed to make GenAI and Agentic AI production-ready.
Opus Security, a Cloud Security Orchestration and Remediation startup, announced $10 million in seed funding led by YL Ventures with participation from Tiger Global and renowned security executives and serial entrepreneurs, including George Kurtz, co-founder, CEO and President of CrowdStrike; Udi Mokady, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of CyberArk; Dan Plastina, former Head of AWS Security Services; Oliver Friedrichs, co-founder and former CEO of Phantom Cyber, acquired by Splunk; and Alon Cohen, co-founder and former CTO of Siemplify, acquired by Google Cloud, among others.
Opus, a holistic solution for managing and orchestrating cloud security response and remediation processes, was founded by experienced security professionals, Meny Har, CEO and Or Gabay, CTO, who were part of the founding team and leadership of SOAR pioneer Siemplify (acquired by Google). Customers expressed an acute need for a new security orchestration platform that can empower cloud security teams to reap the value of automation, gain control and lead remediation efforts across the entire organizational cloud environment using best practices and proven methodologies that can be implemented instantly, cutting down the time from detection to mitigation and conserving valuable resources.
“Organizations should not have to prioritize security over business continuity, and already strained SecOps teams are ill-equipped to handle the nuanced decisions demanded of them,” said Dan Plastina, former Head of Security Services at AWS. “Opus’ founders have built a platform that cloud-native security leadership demands — maximizing cloud security automation while retaining and enhancing business benefits.”
Opus is set to transform the way response and remediation are done in the cloud. Opus has built a singular, overarching platform that connects existing cloud and security tools and relevant stakeholders, and orchestrates the entire response and remediation process across all organizational environments based on tried-and-tested, easily deployed guidelines and playbooks. Leveraging automation to the highest degree, Opus knows when sensitive issues demand human involvement and allows automation to resolve the rest. With instant visibility and mapping of remediation metrics, Opus removes blind spots and provides security and business executives with immediate and tangible insights into the state of their risk.
“The massive transition to the cloud has created a need for a new and different type of security orchestration platform, one that minimizes organizational risk and excels at leveraging the countless automation opportunities in the cloud,” said Meny Har, co-founder and CEO of Opus. “The growing number of stakeholders that are now an inherent part of the security operations process should be connected and working together to reduce risk.”
“The proliferation of cloud-focused security solutions has dramatically raised organizational awareness to the scope of their risk surface,” said John Brennan, Senior Partner at YL Ventures. “While visibility in the cloud has greatly improved, customers now express the need for a dedicated solution to address the drastically increasing number of alerts. I cannot imagine a better convergence of an expert team solving a market-wide problem that they understand intimately. Meny and Or have leveraged their unique experience at Siemplify to build the industry’s first cloud-native remediation orchestration and automation platform.”
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