Randori enters automated red-teaming scene with $9.75 million seed investment

“Nation-state” hacking is a phrase often used to talk about the the scariest cyberthreats out there, but cybersecurity startup Randori is using it to market its platform. The company announced on Thursday that it secured $9.75 million in seed funding for its automated red-teaming services. The Boston-based company says that its platform lets customers launch “nation-state caliber” attacks on their own systems in order to assess their risks and vulnerabilities. Randori stresses that its platform carries out real attacks, not ones in simulated environments, in combination with “continuous reconnaissance.” “Despite massive investments of time and capital, organizations often don’t know where they’re vulnerable until after they’re hit. Simulated environments can’t account for the changing tactics of today’s attacker,” said CEO Brian Hazzard in a press release. Hazzard is a former vice president and founding employee of Carbon Black, an endpoint security company that went public earlier this year. Randori company […]

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