8Layers provides a cloud‑identity security platform that continuously monitors human and service‑account identities across SaaS, IaaS and on‑prem environments. It uses behavior‑based risk scoring to surface high‑value, low‑false‑positive alerts and triggers automated response playbooks, reducing dwell time and MTTR while offering built‑in compliance mapping to standards such as CISA and ISO 27001.
Funding
$1.7M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Enterprises increasingly rely on cloud-based human and non‑human identities, but traditional security tools generate noisy alerts, lack contextual risk scoring, and struggle to meet regulatory requirements for identity protection.
Solution
8Layers delivers a cloud‑identity security platform that continuously monitors identity activity across SaaS, IaaS and on‑prem environments. It correlates user behavior, privilege changes and credential usage to assign dynamic risk levels, surfacing only high‑value alerts with a low false‑positive rate. Real‑time detections of privilege escalations, credential misuse and anomalous actions trigger automated response playbooks that reduce dwell time and mean‑time‑to‑remediate to near zero. The platform aggregates comprehensive context and visual storytelling to make each identity’s activity understandable at a glance, helping security analysts investigate efficiently. Built-in compliance mappings to standards such as CISA and ISO 27001 enable CISOs to demonstrate adherence and streamline audit processes.
Target Audience
Primary customers are CISOs, security operations centers and identity‑focused security teams in mid‑size to large enterprises that manage extensive cloud identity fleets.
Features
- Continuous, real‑time monitoring of cloud human and service‑account identities across major platforms
- Behavior‑based risk scoring that distinguishes true threats from benign anomalies
- Automated response actions that execute predefined remediation playbooks instantly
- Low‑false‑positive alerting with enriched contextual data and visual activity narratives
- Compliance alignment tools that map detections to frameworks like CISA and ISO 27001
- Integration layer that augments existing SIEM, EDR and NDR solutions with identity‑focused detections