Start Left Security provides a multi-patented AI-powered platform that integrates secure code training, threat detection, and security posture management to enhance software development practices. The solution addresses vulnerabilities in software products by automating risk assessment and prioritizing remediation efforts, ensuring compliance and reducing potential product liability.
Funding
$6M 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
Software development teams face challenges in building secure applications due to vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, and infrastructure configurations. Traditional security measures often fail to address risks early in the development lifecycle, leading to costly remediation efforts and potential product liability. Furthermore, motivating developers to prioritize and engage in security best practices can be difficult.
Solution
Start Left Security offers an AI-powered platform that integrates secure code training, threat detection, and security posture management to enhance software development practices. The platform automates risk assessment across code, dependencies, and infrastructure, prioritizing remediation efforts based on exploitability and business impact. By embedding gamified learning paths and providing actionable insights, Start Left Security motivates developers to actively engage in security best practices. The platform unifies security and DevOps, providing visibility into security program success and enabling data-driven decisions to mitigate product liability and protect business revenue.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes software development teams, security professionals, and DevOps teams seeking to improve their product security posture and reduce software vulnerabilities.
Features
- AI-powered risk assurance score that pinpoints critical areas for security improvements.
- Personalized and situational secure code training tailored to specific developers creating risks.
- Threat detection that analyzes and correlates data to detect people, activity, process, and tech risks.
- Security posture management that uncovers risks across teams, skills, code, CI/CD, containers, and IaC.
- Open source dependency scanning (SCA) to generate SBOMs and monitor code for known vulnerabilities and CVEs.
- Secrets detection that checks and validates exposed API keys, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys in dev workflows.
- Static code analysis (SAST) to find OWASP Top 10 issues, prioritize them, and suggest AI-powered code fixes.
- Container image scanning to scan for vulnerabilities, generate SBOMs, and prioritize risks for secure deployments.
- Surface monitoring (DAST) to scan web apps for vulnerabilities using simulated attacks.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning to scan Terraform & Kubernetes for misconfigurations and risks.
- Open source license scanning to track license risks and ensure only approved OSS is used.
- Code rot/end-of-life identification to identify outdated frameworks and applications.