{"id":659737,"date":"2026-10-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659737\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:34:14","slug":"upwind-raises-450-million-for-ai-and-cloud-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659737\/","title":{"rendered":"Upwind Raises $450 Million for AI and Cloud Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloud and artificial intelligence security platform\u00a0Upwind<\/a>\u00a0has raised $450 million in new funding.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s Series C round will allow Upwind to strengthen its product and engineering growth, Co-Founder and CEO\u00a0Amiram Shachar<\/a>\u00a0wrote in a Wednesday (Oct. 28)\u00a0blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecurity is a cloud and AI story now,\u201d the post said. \u201cAI has a long reach within the enterprise environment, so we\u2019re building AI sensors for endpoints, agents and skills scanners and are reinventing our inventory graph. It\u2019s not about code to cloud anymore, it\u2019s about endpoint to code to cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also need to use AI to respond to AI,\u201d Shachar added, pointing to Upwind\u2019s three categories of\u00a0AI agents<\/a>\u00a0for customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlue\u201d investigates \u201call log sources and data points to build a single attack story,\u201d the \u201cRed\u201d agent verifies customers\u2019 \u201cexposure and attack surface\u201d and \u201cGreen\u201d which uncovers the \u201cpressure points in your environment that can fix and remediate thousands of security findings and resources,\u201d per the blog post.<\/p>\n

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The company has also launched its AI Labs for\u00a0Cybersecurity, designed to offer \u201cthe environment, infrastructure, and freedom to work on security problems that are not only important today, but will define what the industry needs into the future,\u201d Shachar wrote.<\/p>\n

In other cybersecurity news, the PYMNTS Intelligence report\u00a0\u201cScams Get Personal: Why Banks Pay More to Fight Fraud<\/a>\u201d\u00a0found last month that 78% of financial institutions said the complexity of new tech systems was their chief barrier to innovation.<\/p>\n

That figure was up from 48% a year earlier, representing the biggest increase among the 14 barriers tracked in the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe finding came after\u00a0years of adding tools<\/a>\u00a0designed to identify suspicious customers, devices and transactions,\u201d PYMNTS wrote recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cBehavioral analytics, device fingerprinting and enhanced knowledge-based authentication reached 100% adoption among surveyed institutions in 2026. Machine learning and artificial intelligence were used by 96%, as were rules-based algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n

But adding another detection capability doesn\u2019t always mean improving the overall defense. The research showed that institutions were stacking overlapping systems, making the links among those systems an increasing operational issue. And integration has grown in importance as it becomes tougher to isolate fraud to a single checkpoint.<\/p>\n

The data showed that scams in which the account holder was duped into initiating a payment accounted for 22.4% of fraud dollars in 2026, compared to 12% in 2025.\u00a0Relationship or trust fraud<\/a>\u00a0jumped from 6% to 12.6%, while account takeover using compromised credentials climbed to 28.2% of fraud dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cloud and artificial intelligence security platform\u00a0Upwind\u00a0has raised $450 million in new funding. The company\u2019s Series C round will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[343,4287,1756,42,8298,43,262,40,38,41,39,264],"class_list":["post-659737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cybersecurity","tag-funding","tag-headlines","tag-investments","tag-news","tag-pymnts-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-whats-hot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}