Stairwell secures $20M Series A to help organizations outsmart attackers –

Now with $20 million in Series A funding, its founder and CEO Mike Wiacek — who previously served as chief security officer at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company — is ready to talk. As well as raising $20 million, an investment round co-led by Sequoia Capital and Accel, Stairwell is launching Inception, a threat-hunting platform that aims to help organizations determine if they were compromised now or in the past. Unlike other threat-detection platforms, Inception takes an “inside out” approach to cybersecurity, which starts by looking inwards at a company’s data. the bad guys, are privy to.” This data, all of which is treated as suspicious, is continuously evaluated in light of new indicators and new threat intelligence. The Inception platform, which the startup claims finally enables enterprises to “outsmart the bad guys”, is launching in early release for a limited number of customers, with full general availability scheduled for 2022.