{"id":15450,"date":"2019-06-26T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/vulcan-cyber-announces-10m-series-a-to-automate-security-patching-efforts.html"},"modified":"2019-06-26T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:19:42","slug":"vulcan-cyber-announces-10m-series-a-to-automate-security-patching-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/vulcan-cyber-announces-10m-series-a-to-automate-security-patching-efforts.html","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan Cyber announces $10M Series A to automate security patching efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many software vulnerabilities are already known, and vendors have even issued patches, but the problem is there are so many patches that it\u2019s often difficult for companies to keep up. Vulcan Cyber<\/a> wants to help by bringing a level of automation to the patching operation, and in the process reduce exposure to known risks.<\/p>\n

Today, it announced a $10 million Series A round from Ten Eleven Ventures and YL Ventures <\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a typical scenario, security researchers find vulnerabilities, the vendors disclose them and patch them. From there it\u2019s up to individual companies to take care of downloading and installing the patch, but Vulcan Cyber co-founder and CEO Yaniv Bar-Dayan says the number of patches has been growing at a furious pace with 6000 patches in 2016, 16,000 in 2017 and 18,000 last year. And that growth trajectory is continuing this year, he says.<\/p>\n

Vulcan\u2019s ultimate mission is to help companies remediate security vulnerabilities from their infrastructure. They do this by bringing a level of automation to the process, recognizing that humans can\u2019t keep up with these numbers. \u201cWe automate the process of prioritization and deployment to remediate more vulnerabilities faster,\u201d Bar-Dayan explained. What\u2019s more, he said that Vulcan does this without risking business operations, while reducing risk and costs.<\/p>\n

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Vulcan Cyber risk prioritization view. Screenshot: Vulcan Cyber<\/p>\n

The company raised a $4 million seed round last year<\/a>, bringing the total raised to $14 million so far. As TechCrunch\u2019s Frederic Lardinois pointed out while writing about that seed round, it\u2019s able to achieve this level of automation, while working with the tools developers and security teams typically work with anyway.<\/p>\n

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\u201cVulcan Cyber plays nicely with all of the major cloud platforms, as well as tools like Puppet, Chef and Ansible, as well as GitHub and Bitbucket. It also integrates with a number of major security testing tools and vulnerability scanners, including Black Duck, Nessus, Fortify, Tripwire, Checkmarx, Rapid7 and Veracode,\u201d Lardinois wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The company was founded last year and has 25 employees. It plans to continue building its engineering team in Israel with the money from this round, as well as opening an office in San Francisco for sales, marketing and customer success.<\/p>\n

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Vulcan Cyber raises $4M for its vulnerability remediation platform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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