Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations
Northstar Security, a startup developing AI agents for security teams, has emerged from stealth mode with $7 million in seed funding.
Wing Venture Capital led the round. MVP, Outliers, and cybersecurity veterans Gerhard Eschelbeck, Renaud Deraison, and Justin Somaini also invested.
The company ingests data from existing security and IT tools to build what it calls a Security Context Graph. Updated in real time, the graph shows how identities, assets, applications, vulnerabilities, and business systems connect to one another.
Northstar aims to catch so-called toxic combinations. Issues such as a vulnerability, an unmanaged device, or an account with excessive privileges may seem under control on their own, but together they can expose critical business systems.
For instance, the platform could flag a laptop lacking endpoint protection whose owner is a privileged user able to reach a critical payroll system.
Analysts can investigate findings like this by asking questions in plain...
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