Cylake

The networks we depend on most are being asked to choose between keeping their data and boundaries intact or sending more data elsewhere to get modern security. That is the wrong choice for critical infrastructure. Power and water providers are among the organizations working with us through Cylake’s Design Partner Program. They’re showing us what security has to look like when systems cannot simply connect outward and sensitive data cannot simply leave. Their requirements are shaping what we build. The intelligence comes to the data, on infrastructure they control. Nick Campagna wrote about what we’re learning and why the architecture has to start with their constraints: https://lnkd.in/gKfy25QR

We’re continuing to share perspectives from Cylake’s Board of Directors. We asked Ravi Mhatre what he sees changing in cybersecurity today. "Twenty years ago, security had become a collection of single-purpose appliances. Nir saw that complexity and helped consolidate an entire layer of the industry around a common platform. What's interesting is that, over time, the industry fragmented again. Large organizations can now have dozens of security vendors, each solving a different problem, collecting different data, and giving the security team another system to manage. I've spent my career watching these cycles play out in enterprise technology. Eventually there comes a point where adding one more product isn't really the answer. You have to look underneath all of it and ask whether the architecture still makes sense. I believe that question matters more now than ever, because we're moving into an increasingly AI-native world where the nature, timing and scale of cyber threats are changing radically. An architecture designed for the last era won't likely hold up in this one. That's what I find compelling about Cylake. Nir and the team aren't trying to build the thirty-first security product. They're going back to the underlying architecture, bringing the data and functions back together, and building it to be forward-looking for what's coming."

Cybersecurity is now a board-level concern. AI is changing the speed and scale of cyber risk, which in turn changes what leaders need to pay attention to. Cylake Board Member Mark McLaughlin shares what questions boards should be asking now. Hear the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/ga-2yrbr

AI has made targeted attacks cheaper to build and easier to scale. Defenders need to move faster, and they need the complete picture to do it. Today, that picture is scattered across security products that were never built to work together. Our investors are backing Cylake’s answer: rebuild the architecture from the metal up. Nir Zuk founded Palo Alto Networks. Wilson Xu helped build it and led its engineering team. Ehud S. co-founded SentinelOne. Now they’re building one platform with one data lake, where security and AI run on infrastructure you control. Angus Loten covers the surge in early-stage cyber funding, including Cylake’s recent raise, in The Wall Street Journal. Read the story: https://lnkd.in/gW2J9JM2

Data sovereignty sounds complicated. But at its core, it’s about control. Leaders need to know where their organization’s data is, who has access to it, and how much control they have over what happens to it. Cylake Board Member Mark McLaughlin and CMO René Bonvanie discuss why data sovereignty is becoming a much bigger part of the cybersecurity conversation. Hear what data sovereignty means for leaders now: https://lnkd.in/ga-2yrbr

AI-era cybersecurity needs complete data. Identity, network, cloud, SaaS, endpoint, and everything else generate signals about what’s happening across an environment. But when that data is sampled, separated, or spread across different systems, understanding the full story gets harder. For Katherine Helman, that’s what makes cybersecurity such an interesting problem: how do you take an enormous amount of data, make sense of it, and turn it into a picture of the threat landscape people can actually understand? At Cylake, we’re building around complete data: a genuine data lake that ingests security data completely, with detection and workflows running across the complete dataset. Complete data. Complete control. Learn more: Cylake.com

We’re building Cylake with the people who will use it. Today, we’re sharing more about Cylake’s Design Partner program and the security and technology leaders helping shape the platform ahead of commercial launch. In Episode 5 of Inside Cybersecurity, VP of Product Management Nick Campagna joins René Bonvanie to go inside the program and share what Cylake is learning from organizations across critical infrastructure, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and other complex environments. They get into legacy security stacks, AI, sovereign infrastructure, the economics of tokens, and even the “H word”: hardware. As Nick puts it, “They’re part of the team building the product.” 🎧 Watch Episode 5 of Inside Cybersecurity: https://lnkd.in/g6eS9rwS 

You cannot build complete visibility from 30 tools. What you get instead is 30 puddles of data and 30 bills. We are building Cylake around a different premise: one system, one ingestion pipeline, working across complete data on infrastructure the customer controls. René Bonvanie spoke with Michael Novinson at Information Security Media Group (ISMG) about why that architecture led us all the way down to the hardware, and why it matters for organizations that cannot send their most sensitive security data somewhere else. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gmh7QTx4

“It should be your data. In the cloud, it’s not.” - Nir Zuk, Cylake Founder & CEO Data ownership is one of a company’s most valuable assets. If working with your own data requires permission and a massive bill, how much of it do you really own? Nir Zuk breaks down what it means to have a fully sovereign platform in the latest episode of Inside Cybersecurity with Joel P. Fishbein, Jr, Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Securities. Full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gNZNTeDk

Modern cybersecurity has an architectural problem. The organizations with the most to protect get the least protection. Their data cannot leave their control, and the industry’s best tools live in a cloud they cannot use. So they make do with less. Less data, less AI, less defense. We are rebuilding the entire cybersecurity stack to end that dilemma, starting the other way: your requirements, your premises, your data going nowhere. A complete cybersecurity platform that runs all cybersecurity functions, hardware included. Today, we raised another $245 million to keep building, with participation from Lightspeed, Picture Capital, and Redpoint. Read the announcement: https://lnkd.in/gwSnGxCT