Six months after its seed funding round, cybersecurity startup Sola Security Ltd. today announced that it has received an additional $35 million from investors.

Returning backer S32 led the raise. It was joined by Microsoft Corp.’s M12 startup fund, Sequoia Capital Chair Michael Moritz, New Era Capital Partners, S Capital and Glilot Capital Partners. The investment brings Sola Security’s total outside funding to $35 million.

Tel Aviv-based Sola Security offers an artificial intelligence platform that enables cybersecurity teams to build threat detection apps using prompts. To use the platform, workers must specify the systems they wish to monitor and the kind of vulnerabilities that they’re looking to track. Sola Security then automatically generates the software components necessary to perform the task.

The platform first connects to the systems that it’s instructed to monitor and collects cybersecurity data. The software can, for example, retrieve information about the configuration of a company’s Amazon Web Services environment. It then generates SQL queries that search the collected information for data on potential risks.

Companies can create apps that detect vulnerable assets such as Amazon S3 buckets without encryption enabled. According to Sola Security, its platform also spots issues that affect employee accounts. Customers can build apps that identify accounts with access to more data or systems than strictly necessary.

Sola Security says that user-created apps can visualize their findings in graphs to ease analysis. According to the company, its platform regularly checks for new vulnerabilities and generates an alert when one is found. A chatbot embedded in custom apps allows customers to analyze the data with natural language questions.

The platform uses a feature dubbed graph research to answer some user questions. According to the company, the technology helps cybersecurity teams determine whether an issue in one system might affect other assets. For example, it could point out if a vulnerability in a tool that a company uses to manage administrator accounts might expose its cloud environment to cyberattacks.

Users can modify the dashboards that Sola generates using a no-code customization tool. An administrator might create one version of a database monitoring dashboard for the cybersecurity team and another for the business workers who use the database. For customers that don’t require extensive customization, Sola offers prepackaged cybersecurity apps built by its engineers.

“Our industry needs to move faster, and to do what needs to be done so solutions are simple, lightweight and tailored to specific needs,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Guy Flechter.

Solar disclosed today that its platform has been adopted by more than 2,000 users since it launched in March. Those users have created more than 1,000 cybersecurity apps for their companies.

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