While the cloud is playing an increasingly pivotal role in the modern business world, companies migrate to remote infrastructure face a host of challenges.
Many companies are using the cloud to host applications and data. It can be difficult to know what is happening under the hood due to the complexity of integrations. Security policy violations can be difficult to identify.
The open source security-as-code platform that is launching to the public today is a solution to this problem.
In order to help developers and developer operations teams safeguard their applications and data, both in testing and production environments, and it does so by serving full visibility into the security posture of their plethora of cloud services and enterprise systems, it is important that they have full visibility into the security posture of their The goal is to automate the detection and removal of security policy violations, which may include unauthorized access or misconfigurations.
In order to take the open source project to the next stage and further towards commercialization, the Piscataway, New Jersey-based startup today announced it had raised $3.3 million in a seed funding round.
The architecture of Paladin helps developers connect to and ingest data from a wide range of sources. All the assets, evaluate and establish policy violations, and execute any pre-configuration auto-fixes can be discovered by Paladin.
Paladin is an open source project that can be used to secure all public clouds. It can be used in a hybrid cloud strategy where some of their data and applications are hosted between public and private cloud infrastructure.
In order to get a better idea of the world in which Paladin has entered, there are a number of other similar players. Jit, a startup that recently exited stealth with a large amount of seed funding, is not the only one.
There is a demand for cloud-native security. The open-sourced foundation is one of the core differentiating factors of the company. The benefits include the fact that open source is an attractive proposition to developers who prefer to tinker with and test-drive software themselves, without having to jump through huge corporate hoops.
Daniel Deeney said that developers prefer to use open source solutions. Closed source players are selling their products as paid enterprise solutions. Many developers don't use these products because they don't have a budget to purchase expensive enterprise solutions and they aren't flexible to integrate into other cloud based systems
While there are other open source players in the space, including venture-backed Stacklet, Paladin is emphasizing itsholistic approach to cloud security, which includes the aforementioned connector-based architecture that extends security not only across the major public clouds, but an extensive gamut of cloud technologies.
Since the end of the year, Deeney and Steve Hull have been building out the product in conjunction with partner customers and developers from the community.
Today's announcement heralds the official launch of the core Paladin open source project, which includes a bunch of features out-of-the-box including aUI management dashboard, best-practice security policies, and a policy-management plane to connect directly into cloud
The dashboard of the paladin.
This shows the beginning of a product that will eventually be commercially viable. Premium features such as service level agreements, artificial intelligence-based risk- scoring, and enhanced compliance reporting will be included.
At least one publicly-traded enterprise is being supported by the company.
A public company based in Philadelphia signed a multi-year support contract for the open source software product, which was used by many developers. The company is not allowed to reveal the customer's name at the moment.
The company is well-financed to fund its growth in the open source community by building out its team.
The company plans to use the seed round proceeds to hire a few key positions, such as head of developer relations.
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