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We are excited to announce that Upwind has been recognized by Latio as a leader in both Cloud Security and Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR) in the newly released 2025 Latio Cloud Security Market Report. In this report, analyst James Berthoty highlights how the cloud security landscape is rapidly evolving beyond traditional CNAPP models,…

From an idea in stealth to acquisition — the journey of NYX and the future with Upwind Fourteen months ago, my partner Gili Yankovitch and I started working on a bold idea: what if we could help security & appsec teams with better prioritization of their risks and detect not just what code should run,…

This year at AWS re:Inforce, Upwind CSO Rinki Sethi and Alteryx CISO Lucas Moody explored how leading CISOs approach cloud security strategically. This talk highlights key considerations, common pitfalls, and proven practices for securing cloud environments, helping CISOs walk away with actionable insights from industry veterans to elevate their organization’s security posture

In Part 1 of this Road to Gold episode, former NBA Champion Omri Casspi shared how drive and resilience took him from Israel to the NBA. In Part 2, the conversation continues with Upwind co-Founder and CEO Amiram Shachar, diving into the mindset behind lasting success - being coachable, learning from mistakes, putting in the work, and surrounding…

Big win for Upwind: We took home the overall title and earned top honors across every category at the Tamnoon Cloud Security Demo Showdown on June 5th. Upwind placed in the top three for all four categories of the people’s choice categories: Application Security, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Runtime Security, and Vulnerability Management. These…

Over the past year, Upwind has grown faster than we could have imagined. As companies race to secure dynamic cloud environments and GenAI workloads, it’s clear that the old ways of doing security with static tools, reactive alerts, fragmented context - just don’t work anymore. That’s why I’m so excited to welcome Rinki Sethi as our new Chief…

Over the past several years, I’ve had the honor of serving as both CISO and CIO at publicly traded companies, operating at the intersection of security, technology and business. I have led global security teams through high-stake incidents, built programs from the ground up, and navigated the complexity of modern enterprise environments where risk moves…

We’re honored to share that Upwind has been named to Redpoint Ventures’ 2025 InfraRed 100, a list that recognizes the most promising private companies driving innovation in cloud infrastructure. This is our second year in a row receiving this recognition, and we’re incredibly humbled to be included alongside so many trailblazers in the space. The InfraRed 100 highlights…

Olympic Gold medalist Tom Reuveny was joined by our CEO Amiram Shachar at the beach for an inspiring conversation just before they headed out to surf - or as we like to say, go Upwind.Tom shared the story behind his journey to gold: the discipline, resilience, and relentless drive it took to reach the top…

Today, I'm excited to announce that Upwind has acquired Nyx Security, a breakthrough startup specializing in real-time application-layer threat detection. This marks Upwind's first acquisition – and a major leap forward in delivering end-to-end cloud security across both the infrastructure and the applications running on top of it. Application-Layer Runtime Changes Everything Runtime threats are…

It’s not every day that a surf session in Maui turns into a sponsorship. But that’s exactly how we met Tom Reuveny—Israel’s first-ever Olympic gold medalist in iQFoil windsurfing and now, the newest member of the Upwind family. After his historic win at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Tom did what any world-class athlete might do:…

This year has been one of market penetration, expansion and innovation for Upwind. From exiting stealth in September 2023 to a little more than a year later, we expanded our global presence with offices in the UK, Iceland, Israel and the US, held a Series A, maintained a robust schedule of product innovation, and had…