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 are excited to announce a new enhancement to Upwind’s posture capabilities, with Upwind now providing comprehensive executive-level Configuration Reports. Users can now generate and download configuration reports, powered by live runtime data, directly from the UI. These reports deliver clear, actionable summaries of posture risk and misconfiguration findings, making it easier for security leaders […]

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 […]

With Upwind’s recent major releases of Inventory 2.0 and Custom Policies and Frameworks, security teams can now define security posture rules that reflect their specific requirements. These rules automatically adapt to infrastructure and workload, keeping compliance in step with real time conditions.  In this article, we will dive into how the Upwind Explorer enables teams to […]

Before he was one of Upwind’s first investors, Omri Casspi was known for something else — relentless drive. From a small town in Israel to becoming the first Israeli player in the NBA, Casspi’s journey was never easy but it was fueled by values we deeply connect with at Upwind: determination, resilience, and belief in the long […]

Upwind is launching a new capability designed to accelerate time-to-value: Organizational Onboarding. Organizational Onboarding is a new method of deployment for Upwind’s Agentless Cloud Scanners that enables faster, more efficient onboarding and cloud coverage. It is now available for all major cloud providers – including support for AWS, Google and Azure. What is Organizational Onboarding? The […]

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Python’s standard library, CVE-2024-12718, allows attackers to modify file metadata or file permissions outside the intended extraction directory. This issue affects systems running Python 3.12 and above when using tarfile.extract() or tarfile.extractall() with the filter parameter set to “data” or “tar”. Though the vulnerability does not allow direct code execution, […]

Upwind is focused on a simple but powerful idea: security only matters when it can lead to action. Our platform delivers real-time, runtime intelligence – enriching posture findings with deep behavioral context, API and identity awareness, and actual exploitability signals. But even the most advanced detection loses value if remediation is slow, manual, or siloed. […]

We’re excited to announce that the Upwind Sensor now officially supports NixOS. This marks a major step forward for teams running fully declarative infrastructure – NixOS users can now seamlessly deploy and manage the Upwind Sensor using the reproducible, version-controlled workflows they already trust for the rest of their system. What is NixOS? NixOS is […]