These days, defending against malevolent hackers and their more advanced methods of breaking into networks is a difficult undertaking for security operations teams. Making technologies to assist those security teams in their work fills another market gap. israeli rezilion devsecops guggenheim investmentslundentechcrunch. Rezilion, an Israeli startup, today announced $30 million in funding for its work creating automation solutions for DevSecOps, the sector of IT that caters to the requirements of security teams and the technical work that they must perform in their positions.
The round is being led by Guggenheim Investments, with contributions from JVP and Kindred Capital. According to Rezilion, other participants in the round include unidentified officials from Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, IBM, Cisco, PayPal, JP Morgan Chase, Nasdaq, eBay, Symantec, RedHat, RSA, and Tenable. The business has already raised $8 million.
The funding for Rezilion is the result of the startup’s rapid expansion over its first two years of existence.
Some of the largest corporations in the world, including two of the “Fortune 10,” make up its clientele (the top 10 of the Fortune 500). One of the latter two is one of the largest software firms in the world, and the other is a significantly linked gadget vendor, but CEO Liran Tancman, who co-founded Rezilion with CTO Shlomi Boutnaru, refused to identify which. (For the record, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, Walmart, and CVS are among the top 10)
It will be intriguing to see if other automation-centric platforms follow in the grand heritage of enterprise automation by integrating security into the other automation they are developing. Rezilion is currently carving out a niche that is intriguing enough to attract investors.
According to a statement from Rusty Parks, senior MD of Guggenheim Investments, “Rezilion’s product suite is a game changer for security teams.” “It offers a win-win situation by enabling businesses to enhance their security posture while bringing innovative goods and services to market faster. Rezilion, in our opinion, has developed a very appealing business offering for security teams that significantly boosts return on time while utterly safeguarding one’s essential infrastructure.