
Discern Security offers an AI-powered platform designed to optimize cybersecurity posture, controls, and assets. The platform provides comprehensive visibility and control over security configurations, coverage, asset risks, and compliance through real-time assessments and optimizations. It automates security controls assessment across various tools like EDR, SASE, SIEM, and IAM, and leverages generative AI for security dashboards and insights. Discern also provides asset management with device/user-level risk scores and no-code remediation workflows. Their solution aims to create a cybersecurity mesh, increasing utilization of existing controls by 60%, reducing assessment and management spend by 25%, and improving framework coverage by 50%. The company was founded by seasoned entrepreneurs with prior experience in the cybersecurity space, having previously created the Human Detection and Response category.

Discern Security offers an AI-powered platform designed to optimize cybersecurity posture, controls, and assets. The platform provides comprehensive visibility and control over security configurations, coverage, asset risks, and compliance through real-time assessments and optimizations. It automates security controls assessment across various tools like EDR, SASE, SIEM, and IAM, and leverages generative AI for security dashboards and insights. Discern also provides asset management with device/user-level risk scores and no-code remediation workflows. Their solution aims to create a cybersecurity mesh, increasing utilization of existing controls by 60%, reducing assessment and management spend by 25%, and improving framework coverage by 50%. The company was founded by seasoned entrepreneurs with prior experience in the cybersecurity space, having previously created the Human Detection and Response category.
Founded: 2023
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California
Product: AI-powered cybersecurity posture, controls, and asset management platform
Seed funding: $3.0M (Sep 2023)
Employees (reported): 34
Cybersecurity posture, controls management, asset risk and compliance automation
2023
Cybersecurity
$3,000,000
Reported investors include Boldcap Ventures, WestWave Capital, Cyber Mentor Fund, and The Security Syndicate.
“Backed by early-stage/specialist investors including Boldcap Ventures, WestWave Capital, Cyber Mentor Fund, and The Security Syndicate”