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It has been a big week for Upwind here at AWS re:Invent 2024!  Our team has been on the ground in Las Vegas, Nevada this week for AWS’s largest annual conference. Here’s a quick look at what we’ve been up to. Monday, December 2. We announced our $100 million Series A, which was featured in…

December 4, 2024 -- Upwind, the next-generation cloud security platform, announced today that the Upwind Cloud Security Platform is available as a software component in the EC2 Image Builder console of Amazon Web Services (AWS). EC2 Image Builder is a fully-managed service that simplifies the customization, testing, distribution, and lifecycle management of Amazon Machine Images…

Customers have always been our north-star. Being "Driven By Customers" is not just a paragraph written on our Careers page - it's the way we operate on a daily basis. It is how we hire, promote, and give each other feedback at Upwind. It is also how we build products, prioritize features, and think about…

In a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud reality, Upwind provides comprehensive cloud security to accelerate productivity and empower their development, security and DevOps teams to innovate within a secure and efficient environment, including managed Kubernetes services like Microsoft’s AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service). Upwind customer Petrofac leverages Upwind to protect their AKS resources across a number of areas:…

We are excited to announce that Upwind has been named by Fortune and Lightspeed Venture Partners in the 2025 Fortune Cyber 60. This list recognizes the 60 fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, highlighting our commitment to innovation and delivering an industry-leading cloud security platform. This is the second year in a row that Upwind has been named…

Upwind has been named by The Information as one of the most promising startups in the SaaS & Security category, highlighting our commitment to building an industry-leading cloud security platform. The Information’s annual list focuses on 50 companies that have the potential to be the most valuable businesses in their categories, based on their revenue,…

Upwind’s eBPF sensor is lightweight and high performance, which was recently shown in a record-breaking image scan with customer H2O.ai. When scanning H2O.ai’s 30GB container image with multiple dependencies, the Upwind sensor consumed less than 1GB of RAM, about 3% of the image size, demonstrating how Upwind ensures comprehensive runtime security coverage with a lightweight…

We are excited to announce that Upwind has been named by CRN as one of the top ten up-and-coming players in the cloud, identity and data security segments. The list features startups founded since 2020 with major announcements or achievements in 2024.  Upwind was also recently named as the Fastest Growing AppSec Company in the…

Upwind CEO Amiram Shachar joins NYSE TV to discuss Upwind's next-generation cloud security platform, including its use of AI and machine learning to ensure comprehensive cloud security.

This week, Upwind was named as the Fastest Growing AppSec Company in the IT-Harvest Cyber 150 by analyst Richard Stiennon, and also received an Innovator Spotlight in Cyber Defense Magazine. Analysts James Berthoty of Latio Tech and Francis Odum of Software Analyst Research also listed Upwind as a leading CNAPP, acknowledging the need for Upwind’s…

Upwind CPO Joshua Burgin discusses how Upwind uses runtime to build a next-generation cloud security platform.

We recently published a case study with our customer TTMZero, highlighting how their team uses Upwind for a unified DevSecOps solution, leveraging real-time network visibility, runtime risk and remediation prioritization. “Upwind has exceeded our expectations in every area of our organization and completely transformed the way we do DevSecOps. We evaluated other tools and have…