With $10 million Series A, Uptycs launches security platform using open source tools
Uptycs, a Waltham, Mass. cybersecurity startup that leverages open source tools, announced on Tuesday that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by ForgePoint Capital and Comcast Ventures. The company is coming out of stealth with the announcement and launching its security analytics platform, which collects data from a customer’s endpoints and aggregates it into “context-rich dashboards, reports and alerts” that can be used to monitor threats and vulnerabilities. Uptycs says it’s the first security analytics platform powered by osquery, an open source endpoint tool compatible with multiple operating systems. “Security solutions have not kept pace to serve the needs of today’s modern computing environments. There are growing blind spots especially for cloud workloads and macOS that osquery is uniquely capable of covering,” said Uptycs CEO and founder Ganesh Pai in a statement. “Uptycs is helping companies leverage the benefits of osquery quickly, and at scale.” The company says the […]
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