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

Imagine you’re Mike, a security engineer at a fast-growing fintech startup. One morning, you are notified of a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open-source library used across multiple containers. You drop everything, messaging developers, digging through logs, mapping services – only to realize the vulnerable code never actually runs in production. You’ve just spent days […]

As serverless computing continues to gain momentum, developers and DevOps teams are increasingly turning to Microsoft Azure Functions to build scalable, event-driven applications with minimal infrastructure overhead. However, the very benefits of serverless – rapid deployment, fine-grained event handling, and abstracted infrastructure – introduce new challenges for security teams. These environments are harder to monitor […]

In this episode, we sit down with Jim Routh, former CISO at American Express, MassMutual, CVS, and more, for a conversation led by our CSO, Rinki Sethi. From accidentally becoming one of the industry’s first CISOs to redefining what leadership means in cybersecurity, Jim shares hard-earned insights on stakeholder management, runtime security, and the future […]

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 […]

On June 6, 2025, Reuters reported that OpenAI is appealing a U.S. court order requiring the company to preserve all user interactions with ChatGPT and its API, including conversations that users deleted. This legal mandate stems from an ongoing copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times and has effectively suspended OpenAI’s standard data deletion […]

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 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 […]