InstaSecure provides proactive cloud security for AWS environments by enforcing enterprise-wide baselines and preventing misconfigurations. The platform uses preventive guardrails and real-time virtual patching to automatically remediate identity risks and configuration drift without requiring code changes. This approach hardens cloud infrastructure, accelerates compliance, and reduces security team workload by resolving entire classes of alerts instantly.
Funding
$500K 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
Cloud environments are vulnerable to credential theft and zero-day attacks, which are the most common causes of cloud breaches. Existing security measures like least privilege policies, continuous detection/remediation, and just-in-time access controls often fail to adequately address the root causes of these threats.
Solution
InstaSecure offers a Cloud Data Perimeter platform that establishes a proactive trust boundary, ensuring only trusted identities access authorized resources from expected networks. This approach mitigates the risks associated with credential theft by enforcing network protections that prevent the misuse of stolen credentials. By creating a three-dimensional perimeter, InstaSecure protects against both credential theft and zero-day exploits, providing a compensating control that is proactive and always-on. The platform complements existing security tools, shifting cloud security defenses from reactive remediation to proactive prevention.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes organizations utilizing cloud infrastructure, particularly those concerned with credential theft, zero-day vulnerabilities, and the limitations of traditional security measures.
Features
- Enforces network protections to prevent the use of stolen credentials, addressing the portability issue.
- Establishes a proactive trust boundary to defend against zero-day attacks before vulnerabilities can be exploited.
- Defines trusted identities as cloud principals or services acting on behalf of the user.
- Defines trusted resources as cloud resources owned by the account or cloud services acting on behalf of the user.
- Defines expected networks as authorized networks, such as on-prem data centers, VPNs, cloud VPCs, or cloud networks used by cloud service providers.
- Replaces security gates with perimeter guardrails to boost release velocity.