Startup Sonrai Security emerges from stealth with $18.5 million in funding and the launch of Cloud Data Control (CDC), a service promising "unparalleled data and identity control across all cloud accounts and within any data store."
Named after the Galic word for "data" (pronounced "son-ree"), Sonrai is founded by Q1 Labs co-founders Brendan Hanningan and Sandy Bird. Following the 2011 acquisition of Q1 Labs by IBM, the two helped establish IBM Security with QRadar, the Big Blue flagship security intelligence and analytics platform.
As for the Sonrai product offering, CDC is a native cloud service able to track data and users across all major cloud services, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, as well as to 3rd party data sources using MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and MySQL, among others. It provides a common interface, providing both SecOps and DevOps more granular and extensible controls, and allows organisations to assess and reduce risk, monitor user and data movement and usage, and enforce accountability.
In addition, CDC provides analytics and views across hundreds of AWS/Google accounts and Azure subscriptions, plus associated data stores. The service also audits data movements to ensure compliance with mandates such as GDPR, HIPAA and PCI, and DevOps teams can integrate the service with own deployment frameworks via APIs to ensure conformity with security standards.
“Cloud adoption affords us a unique opportunity to reimagine how we secure corporate data, and to make a clean break from the limitations of device, data center and perimeter centric security," Hannigan says. "By putting data and identity at the center of a security model that spans cloud providers and third-party data stores, Sonrai Security offers a level of control and security never possible in a traditional enterprise network.”
CDC is available now.
Go Sonrai Security Raises More Than $18 Million and Launches First Cloud Data Control Service
