Cloud and endpoint cybersecurity startup Uptycs Inc. today announced what it claims to be the first “early warning system” that allows security teams to identify and stop threat actors before they can access data and services in the cloud.

Uptycs’ platform, which offers unified cloud-native application protection and extended detected and response, gains the ability to collect and analyze GitHub audit logs and user identity information from Okta Inc. and Azure Active Directory. As a result, the platform reveals suspicious behavior as a developer moves code in and out of repositories and into production. Doing so allows security teams to identify and stop threat actors before they can access data and services in the cloud.

With the new release, Uptycs customers can track and analyze malicious activity across multiple attack surfaces from a single user interface. The support for GitHub and identity services comes on top of its existing tracking support for endpoints, cloud, containers, control plane for cloud and Kubernetes.

Uptycs said the addition of support for identity providers ties together activity from developer logged-in accounts. The added capabilities improve threat detection and response, especially for security analysts investigating the severity and scope of an alert for incident response.

“Recent high-profile data breaches, such as LastPass and CircleCI, highlight the need to detect threat actors earlier in the kill chain before they move from a developer’s laptop into crown jewel data and services,” Ganesh Pai, co-founder and chief executive officer of Uptycs, said in a statement. “This means giving security teams the ability to track threat activity across developer machines, source code repositories, identity providers, and cloud infrastructure.”

Uptycs was last in the news in October when it announced enhanced Kubernetes and contain security capabilities. A venture capital-backed startup, Uptycs last raised funding in 2021. Investors in the company include Norwest Venture Partners LP, Sapphire Ventures LLC, Comcast Ventures LLC, Forgepoint Capital LP, Gencast Ventures LP and Founder Collective Management Co. LLC.

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