SECURITY
SECURITY
SECURITY
Security analytics firm Uptycs raises $30M
Structured Query Language-based security analytics firm Uptycs Inc. said today it has raised a new round of $30 million.
The Series B round of funding brings its total amount raised to date to $43 million. Sapphire Ventures led the latest round, which also saw the participation of existing investors Comcast Ventures and ForgePoint Capital.
The Boston-based startup sells a security analytics platform that runs on osquery, a universal open-source endpoint agent that works by exposing an operating system as a high-performance relational database. It enables developers to write SQL-based queries that explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables can be created to help represent otherwise fairly abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events and file hashes.
Uptycs’ platform was built to support visibility and management of security data in information technology environments that run a mix of Windows, Linux, macOS, software container and cloud workloads. It’s aimed at cutting down on the heavy lifting required to turn the data generated by osquery into actionable information.
Uptycs founder and Chief Executive Ganesh Pai told SiliconANGLE that the company plans to use the new funds to build out its marketing and sales machinery, and to accelerate product development.
“We’re hiring across departments and plan to double the number of Uptycs employees over the next 12 months,” Pai said. “In short, these funds will help us take the necessary next steps towards realizing our bold vision: security analytics for everyone.”
As part of that vision, Uptycs has plans to expand its analytics offering beyond the current insights it offers based on structured telemetry that leverages osquery in server endpoints.
“We’ve recently added Cloud Provider analytics, currently with support for AWS and soon to support Google Cloud and Azure,” Pai said. “Looking forward, engineering is currently working on Kubernetes and OpenShift analytics. These capabilities, brought together within the Uptycs SQL-powered security analytics platform, will enable a unique combination of virtual machine/container and platform/orchestration views of cloud workloads.”
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