Virginia-based Tidal Cyber, producer of Threat-Led Defense, announced it had raised $10 million in Series A funding to accelerate its product innovation and company growth.
The investment, led by Bright Pixel Capital, with participation from existing Tidal Cyber investors, will help advance the company’s mission to help organizations measure and improve the effectiveness of their cybersecurity against real-world threats, the company said. The company was co-founded by three former MITRE experts with a combined 75 years of cybersecurity experience in defensive security and launching startups.
“We see strong traction and a need for threat-led defense as more organizations move beyond assumptions, CVE-counting, and checkbox compliance,” Rick Gordon, CEO of Tidal Cyber, said. “Tidal Cyber flips the security model putting real adversary behavior at the center of defense to enable a proactive, continuous, threat-led defense.”
Gordon helped scale the Center for Threat-Informed Defense, ATT&CK Evaluations and MITRE ATT&CK Defender training. Other founders Richard Struse, the CTO, and Frank Duff, the company’s Chief Innovation Officer, have experience from founded MITRE’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense, and MITRE’s ATT&CK® Evaluations program, respectively.
“Tidal Cyber brings a new level of clarity and precision to security strategy by focusing on adversary behavior and how they operate,” said Marcos Castro Osoro, Board Member at Bright Pixel Capital. “Their platform exposes true coverage exposures and helps organizations defend against the threats that really matter. We’re proud to support their growth as they scale their product and bring Threat-Led Defense to the forefront of cybersecurity.”
Investors in the company include Bright Pixel Capital, as well as existing investors, USAA< Squadra, Capital One, Veteran Ventures, Task Force X, and Ultratech.