ARMO, developers of a pioneering
platform that inherently secures cloud-native workloads with in-memory
protection coupled with built-in visibility and control, today announced its
launch out of stealth having secured $4.5 million in seed funding, from Pitango
First. The company plans to use the funds to expand its go-to-market efforts
and commercial offering of its technology.
The
growing adoption of cloud technologies by enterprise companies has accelerated
the use of Kubernetes as the de-facto containers orchestration platform.
However, this provides limited visibility, control and poor security of
cloud-native workloads. Existing solutions such as side cars and emerging
eBPF-based systems fail to deliver a seamless and secure runtime
environment.
ARMO
Workload Fabric provides DevOps teams with a new approach to cloud-native
workload and application deployment that infuse inherent security and
visibility into applications, and creates a virtual control plane that can be
easily deployed in any cloud-native environment.
Increasingly
sophisticated cyberattacks, such as the recent SolarWinds attack, have
underlined the critical need for runtime-based security within the application
memory to protect against threats that typically evade existing anomaly
detection and policy-based solutions. ARMO Workload Fabric provides an
in-memory security layer, and governance layers, such as data flow compliance,
transparent data protection, and secured tunneling and networking. In addition,
the platform seamlessly integrates into the DevOps pipeline at the CI/CD phase,
eliminating operational complexity.
"With
the growing complexity and highly dynamic nature of modern applications and
cloud environments, changing even hundreds of times a day, security gaps like
software vulnerabilities and excessive privileges, are becoming harder to
monitor and remediate. This highlights the importance of incorporating control
and security capabilities at runtime," said Shauli Rozen, CEO and Co-Founder of
ARMO. "Existing runtime technologies such as side-cars and RASP fall short when
it comes to security, performance and deployment. I'm thrilled to announce
ARMO's launch to offer the first solution bringing security, visibility,
control and compliance to cloud-native environments.''
"It's
been exciting to watch ARMO gear up to launch, and we look forward to seeing it
grow," said Ranny Nachmias, General Manager of Intel Ignite. "The company
offers a refreshing new approach to workload control that is all the more
critical at a time when enterprise companies need to be able to keep up with
the rapid pace of digital transformation in complex environments."
"The
growing misalignment between the adoption of cloud-native and Kubernetes by
larger enterprises, and the fragmented and costly first generation solutions
such as side-cars, container security, etc. has created a need and opportunity
for a new generation of solutions," said Yair Cassuto, Partner at Pitango
First, who joined ARMO's Board of Directors. "Seeing ARMO's novel approach
and how it enables the desired continuous control, deep visibility and tight
security for any cloud application at extreme simplicity, has led us to join
and invest in the company."
ARMO
was founded by cloud and security industry veterans Shauli Rozen, Leonid
Sandler and Benjamin Hirschberg. Sandler and Hirschberg bring their experience
from building the video security solution for NDS, which was acquired by CISCO
for $5 billion.
ARMO
was recently selected among hundreds of applicants to participate in Intel
Ignite, Intel's startup growth program. To date, leading global enterprises
have already chosen ARMO Workload Fabric as their future security and
visibility infrastructure, running in production environments.