For a company that emerged from stealth mode only months ago, Dasera Inc. has managed to capture a surprising number of awards. The data security company’s website lists 10 accolades, including a listing among CRN’s “Top 10 Hottest Cloud Security Startups,” and recognition as a winner of the Cyber Defense Magazine Global InfoSec Awards in 2021.

What may be attracting notice is the company’s intriguing approach to securing the entire data lifecycle in cloud stores. Enterprise firms are looking for fresh solutions in an increasingly troublesome threat landscape, and Dasera’s holistic, cloud-based approach appears to be gaining interest.

“If you look at the number of data breaches and misuses of data in the last few years, clearly something isn’t working,” said Noah Johnson, (pictured, right), chief technology officer at Dasera. “Our view is that data security needs to be rethought and designed from the ground up for the modern way that data is used. That’s exactly what we are doing. It’s data security reimagined, especially for the cloud.”

Johnson spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, and he was joined by April Mitchell (pictured, left), head of engineering at Dasera. They discussed the company’s origins and tools for securing cloud data stores.

Security from creation to deletion

Dasera’s technology came from Johnson’s research work while completing a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He collaborated with a large Fortune 500 tech company needing to get a better handle on its data.

The result was a platform able to track data and monitor how it was used across the organization, securing it from creation to deletion.

“To do this right, you have to do it at speed, you have to do it in real-time, and you have to do it at scale,” Mitchell explained. “There are many security tools out there, many processes from access control to data loss prevention, but we still had 4,000 breaches in the last year alone. We don’t want to be a typical existing cybersecurity company.”

Dasera recently closed a $6 million seed funding round that will be used to accelerate sales and product development. Through automated discovery, classification, and monitoring, the startup hopes to provide a solution that can effectively meet a critical market need.

“Our goal is to really solve data security,” Johnson said. “We think we have a very innovative solution that is designed specifically for where data lives today, which is the cloud. We want to build a system that lets companies for the first time get that visibility and create a feedback loop between the data users, the different security stakeholders, the legal teams and help them make better, more informed security decisions.”

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