Skip to main content

Code security scanner creator Spectral announces $6.2M in funding

Israeli DevSecOps startup Spectral today announced $6.2 million in funding for its developer-first code security scanner. The seed round was led by Amiti and MizMaa, according to the company’s announcement.

“Scanning tools today take long minutes or even hours to run in a given pipeline,” said Dotan Nahum, co-founder and CEO of Spectral. “Developers just don’t have that kind of time, or the funds,” he explained in the announcement, noting that many providers of continuous integration solutions meter activity by the minute. “Some developers are so overwhelmed by slow, irrelevant and non-intuitive results that they stop using scanners altogether,” Nahum said.

According to the company, Spectral’s platform is a developer-facing solution that the company said monitors, crawls and protects organizations by discovering developer-facing systems such as Slack, npm, maven and logs, which often are not included in an organization’s threat modeling.

“We observe that with so many tech stacks, SaaS vendors and integrations, mistakes in private repositories end up appearing in public repos too,” Nahum said. “It’s these things — the things you don’t know that you don’t know about — that really keep you up at night.” Spectral, he noted, provides insights into these “blind spots.” Among those integrations are Travis, Jenkins and CircleCI, and the frameworks and products such as Webpack, Gatsby, Netlify and more, the company announced.

Its detectors, using machine learning-based analysis, can also scan any programming language, config files and other assets. Further, users can build their own custom detectors using SPEQL, a purpose-built query language, Spectral said.

“The pain points we’re addressing resonate strongly across every company developing software, because as they evolve from own-code to glue-code to no-code approaches, they allow developers to gain more speed, but they also add on significant amounts of risk,” Spectral co-founder and COO Idan Didi said. “Spectral lets developers be more productive while keeping the company secure.”

 

The post Code security scanner creator Spectral announces $6.2M in funding appeared first on SD Times.



from SD Times https://ift.tt/3jWrvcm
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A guide to data integration tools

CData Software is a leader in data access and connectivity solutions. It specializes in the development of data drivers and data access technologies for real-time access to online or on-premise applications, databases and web APIs. The company is focused on bringing data connectivity capabilities natively into tools organizations already use. It also features ETL/ELT solutions, enterprise connectors, and data visualization. Matillion ’s data transformation software empowers customers to extract data from a wide number of sources, load it into their chosen cloud data warehouse (CDW) and transform that data from its siloed source state, into analytics-ready insights – prepared for advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence use cases. Only Matillion is purpose-built for Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure, enabling businesses to achieve new levels of simplicity, speed, scale, and savings. Trusted by companies of all sizes to meet...
1 comment
Read more

Olive and NTT DATA Join Forces to Accelerate the Global Development and Deployment of AI Solutions

U.S.A., March 14, 2021 — Olive , the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today announced an alliance with NTT DATA , a global digital business and IT services leader. The collaboration will fast track the creation of new healthcare solutions to transform the health experience for humans — both in the traditional healthcare setting and at home. As a member of Olive’s Deploy, Develop and Distribute Partnership Programs , NTT DATA is leveraging Olive’s open platform to innovate, build and distribute solutions to Olive’s customers, which include some of the country’s largest health providers. Olive and NTT DATA will co-develop new Loops — applications that work on Olive’s platform to provide humans real-time intelligence — and new machine learning and robotic process automation (RPA) models. NTT DATA and Olive will devote an early focus to enabling efficiencies in supply chain and IT, with other disciplines to follow. “This is an exciting period of growth at Olive, so...
Post a Comment
Read more

2022: The year of hybrid work

Remote work was once considered a luxury to many, but in 2020, it became a necessity for a large portion of the workforce, as the scary and unknown COVID-19 virus sickened and even took the lives of so many people around the world.  Some workers were able to thrive in a remote setting, while others felt isolated and struggled to keep up a balance between their work and home lives. Last year saw the availability of life-saving vaccines, so companies were able to start having the conversation about what to do next. Should they keep everyone remote? Should they go back to working in the office full time? Or should they do something in between? Enter hybrid work, which offers a mix of the two. A Fall 2021 study conducted by Google revealed that over 75% of survey respondents expect hybrid work to become a standard practice within their organization within the next three years.  Thus, two years after the world abruptly shifted to widespread adoption of remote work, we are dec...
Post a Comment
Read more