INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Bridgecrew, an early-stage startup that makes automated cloud security tooling aimed at engineers, announced a $14 million Series A
Sorensen Ventures, DNX Ventures, Tectonic Ventures, and Homeward Ventures also participated
A number of individual investors also helped out
The company has raised a total of $18 million.Bridgecrew CEO and co-founder Idan Tendler says that it is becoming easier to provision cloud
resources, but that security tends to be more challenging
charged with fixing the security issues, he said.The company decided to solve that problem by coming up with a solution geared specifically
for the way engineers think and operate
explained.The playbooks are bits of infrastructure as code that can resolve many common problems quickly
When they encounter a new problem, they build a playbook and then that becomes part of the product
He says that 90% of the issues are fairly generic like following AWS best practices or ensuring SOC-2 compliance, but the engineers are free
to tweak the code if they need to.Tendler says he is hiring and sees his product helping companies looking to reduce costs through
The need is huge and the COVID-19 implications mean that more and more companies will be moving to cloud and trying to reduce costs, and we
