Infrawatch raises $3M to build an infrastructure intelligence platform for cybersecurity
Infrawatch Ltd., a cybersecurity company providing intelligence about the infrastructure used by malicious actors to help organizations stop attacks, fraud and online abuse, announced Wednesday it has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding.
Outward VC and TriplePoint Ventures co-led the round, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and leading fintech and cyber angel investors.
The traditional method for handling cybersecurity surrounds malicious tactics and the perimeter. What’s happening to the network at the machine level becomes the hottest flashpoint and the most important problem to handle because that’s what’s about to cost any given corporation a lot of money in the short run. This is the nature of rules, policies, firewalls and reactive architecture.
However, Infrawatch founder and Chief Executive Lloyd Davies argues that although tactics change daily to avoid and evolve around defenses, hostile infrastructure is necessarily far more static and leaves a persistent trail. That infrastructure can be identified, blocked and mitigated before it’s used at scale, providing another layer of proactive defense that is underutilized.
