ZEST Security Exits Stealth to Resolve Enterprise Cloud Risks Using GenAI
Raises $5M from Hanaco and Silvertech Ventures to tackle the massive and growing attack surface of cloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
ZEST founders Snir Ben Shimol and Uri Aronovici. Photo credit: ZEST
ZEST Security stealth today with its AI-powered cloud risk resolution platform to eliminate enterprise cloud security risks at scale. According to the company, its platform correlates and pinpoints the root cause of cloud risks to craft resolution paths that eliminate cloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that attackers can exploit.
Today’s security stack is very rich in identifying cloud risks, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations, but when it comes to remediating these risks, it’s extremely manual, time-consuming, and in some cases, impossible.
Once a potential risk is identified, significant back-and-forth between teams is required to validate the risk, understand the root cause, and determine the best resolution. On average, it takes 30-60 days to remediate a single cloud security risk and 80% of resolved risks only resurface shortly after remediation.
Lack of efficient and effective remediation is not only costing organizations millions of dollars per year in operational spending, it has also directly contributed to a drastic increase in successful exploitation of known cloud risks.
ZEST’s AI-powered risk resolution platform aims to redefine cloud risk remediation for security and DevOps teams. “Combining the power of Generative AI with the cost savings and selection of open-source innovations, ZEST seized a unique opportunity to revolutionize how organizations approach security and risk,” said Charlie Federman, Partner at Silvertech Ventures.”
Under the leadership of co-founders Snir Ben Shimol, CEO and Uri Aronovici, CTO, both ex-Israeli Intelligence officers, ZEST was founded to bridge the gap between identifying security risks and efficiently remediating them. There is a pressing need for technology that shifts the industry’s focus. It’s not about opening tickets; it’s about closing them.
“In recent years, the focus has been on cloud risk identification, but what we now have is a ‘failure to remediate’ problem,” said Ben Shimol. “We founded ZEST to solve a big challenge within a new market. By providing security teams with resolution paths –whether that’s mitigation using existing tools, or preventative remediation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)–organizations can finally level the playing field with threat actors.”
