Interpres Security, a firm focused on helping companies optimise their security performance, has emerged from stealth with $8.5m in seed funding.
The seed financing round was headed by Ten Eleven Ventures.
The Interpres Security platform offers a customised, continuous and threat-informed analysis of an organisation’s detection and mitigation capabilities and provides automated security engineering directives based on this evaluation, enabling a hardened security posture.
After experiencing a systems breach firsthand at a classified security operations center, members of the company’s security founding team developed a new threat centric methodology to validate the effectiveness of all of the security vendors in the environment.
According to Interpres, this approach proved successful, and the same methodology later became the genesis for its automation of these capabilities into its new platform.
Interpres currently integrates the MITRE ATT&CK framework to prioritise threat coverage based on the adversaries most likely to target an organisation, the malware and techniques those adversaries use, and the prevalence of those attacks as seen in the wild.
From here, the platform recommends mitigations, telemetry collection strategies and detection logic best suited to fill the prioritised gaps in coverage across the enterprise to detect and mitigate threats most likely to target the organisation.
It does all this while utilising the organization’s existing investment in cybersecurity products and solutions. Once the defense ecosystem is optimized, Interpres maintains this state through a situational awareness dashboard that detects drift in configuration and changes to risk posture while offering detailed board-level reporting.
Interpres Security CEO and co-founder Nick Lantuh said, “Until now, only large security engineering teams have even been able to attempt to analyze, validate, and optimize an organization’s specific security toolset and processes. However, the detailed analysis and threat intelligence needed is extremely time-consuming and manually intensive to complete. The capabilities that we have automated within the Interpres platform goes beyond the scope of what humans can complete regularly, in real-time.
“It’s time for a new approach. Automation and threat-informed prioritization are necessary to properly assess, configure, optimize and align current security tools to optimally defend against advanced threats in a timely manner. That’s the value of the Intepres platform.”
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