Ionix (previously Cyberpion) helps enterprises scale back their assault floor by giving them a greater view of their total security posture and software program provide chain throughout on-premises, cloud and third-party platforms and providers. The corporate immediately introduced that it has added $15 million to its beforehand introduced $27 million Sequence A spherical.
The brand new funding comes from new investor Maor Investments, with participation from present traders Hyperwise Ventures, Team8 and U.S. Enterprise Companions (USVP). This now brings the corporate’s whole funding to $50.3 million.
Provide chain assaults have change into more and more frequent, all whereas enterprises depend on an ever-growing variety of third-party providers and instruments — all of which wrestle with the identical drawback themselves. Ionix guarantees that its service offers companies with a single platform to grasp and handle their total assault floor. The important thing perception right here is that lots of this assault floor lies past an organization’s firewall. Whereas present instruments may fit properly to defend the community that’s straight below an organization’s management, they don’t essentially assist defend in opposition to threats past that.
Attack floor administration, after all, isn’t a brand new self-discipline, with each startups and incumbents like IBM and Mandiant providing competing providers. Ionix argues that its service offers a far broader perspective than a lot of its rivals. On the core of all of those instruments, in any case, is their capability to exactly map the assault floor by creating a listing of the instruments an organization’s workers are utilizing (which IT and security groups don’t all the time learn about). Ionix argues that its prospects uncover 50% extra belongings than with different instruments. Based mostly on this data, a service like Ionix can then assist IT and security groups prioritize exploitable dangers and enhance their security posture.
“Our mission is to offer them the widest doable view of their assault floor trying from the surface in, like an attacker would. Then we concentrate on their vital exposures to assist them successfully prioritize,” stated Ionix CEO Marc Gaffan. “The sturdy market uptake we now have skilled underscores each the vital nature of this drawback and the worth our answer brings to our prospects.”
Present Ionix prospects embrace the likes of Lexmark, Warner Music Group, Infosys and the multinational electrical utility E.ON.
