Silicon Valley CISO Investments Selects Cyral as One of First Investments; Backs Cyral in Race to Secure Modern Data Cloud
Summary
“Securing the data cloud is one of today’s most technically challenging issues, and the CISOs of SVCI understand the opportunities in our space better than anyone,” said Mital. “The expertise and in-the-trenches experience they bring to the table will help inform our product roadmap and provide us with an unparalleled sounding board as we work to make it easier for companies to protect their data wherever it lives.” As more and more companies – especially the Fortune 500 – embrace digital transformation by adopting cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices, security often ends up being a complex challenge, forcing them to choose between agility and increased risk. Cyral – whose name is derived from Saral, a Hindi word for simple – makes it easy for companies to observe, control and protect their data in the cloud and the DevOps-first world. Once deployed, Cyral intercepts all activity across data repositories, applies granular access controls, and alerts and blocks any anomalous behavior – all with zero impact on performance. The group was co-founded by Oren Yunger, investor with GGV Capital, and former CISO along with Al Ghous from ServiceMax, David Tsao from Marqeta, Harshil Parikh from Medallia, Joel Fulton from Splunk, Jonathan Jaffe from People.ai, Ody Lupescu from Ethos Life, and Ralph Pyne from NextRoll.