UPDATED 18:29 EDT / FEBRUARY 16 2023

SECURITY

CommandK raises $3M to assist companies achieve higher security standards

Enterprises security startup CommandK Inc. today announced that it has raised $3 million in new funding to assist companies in achieving higher security standards with little to no change management at their end.

Lightspeed Ventures Partners LLC led the round, with several angel investors also participating.

Founded in 2022, CommandK is building tools that bridge the gap between achieving the highest security and the fastest shipping feature velocity through the end-to-end lifecycle of sensitive data.

CommandK’s infrastructure-as-a-service offering allows companies to manage storage, consumption and control access. Users can automate backups and rotation to always be secure and a central dashboard visualizes the proliferation of secrets and tools, with the ability to fix the most critical attack vectors.

The company’s built-in solutions protect personally identifiable information, including the ability to anonymize it at the source and implement approval-based access to plaintext data. Government risk compliance teams can use the service to visualize and preemptively fix data-breach attack vectors.

CommandK scans everyday tools to discover any sensitive data shared in plaintext, with the ability to analyze and remediate any leaked sensitive data. On the compliance side, the platform checks sensitive data against various regulatory and compliance standards, including Service Organization Control 2, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

“Large web-scale companies have resources to build internal tools that allow developers to build secure products; however, these tools need constant upgrades in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape,” Jayesh Sidhwani, co-founder and chief executive officer of CommandK, said in a statement. “Unless the companies have a dedicated team to focus on this problem, the company’s overall security posture keeps falling behind.”

CommandK is currently in private beta testing, with the company saying that it is already working with enterprises to solve their security challenges.

The new angel investors in CommandK include Robin Vasan (founder of MangoCapital Inc., board member of HashiCorp Inc., Couchbase Inc. and InfluxData Inc.), Jon Gelsey (ex-CEO of Auth0 Inc.), Sundeep Peechu (general partner at Felicis Ventures LLC), Akash Saxena (ex-chief technology officer of Disney+), Pratyus Patnaik (senior director at Okta Inc.), Abinash Tripathy (ex-CEO of Helpshift Inc.) and AllIn Capital LLC.

Image: CommandK

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