Nullify

🚀 We're excited to announce the December close of our Seed fundraise at 3.4M USD/5.2M AUD to reimagine application security with autonomous AI! Today, software engineers outnumber security engineers in enterprises 100 to 1 and despite increased investment in cyber defences, this market remains talent-constrained, with an estimated workforce gap of 3.4 million. A recent survey saw senior cybersecurity executives reveal that 20% to 40% of security engineers' workload consists of automatable tasks. If 20-40% of the work your full-time application security engineers do today was automated, what kind of impact could they be delivering instead? Last week, Shayan Shafii wrote a great article on the shifting landscape of application security, and coined a new category “APSE: Autonomous Product Security Engineering” that we're proud to be shaping at Nullify to transform the future of building secure software. For organisations with growing product security needs that struggle to capture and retain application/product security talent to begin with, we're confident that Nullify can democratise access to this talent by augmenting their team with autonomous AI. Security at it’s core remains a data problem, and the rapid advent and adoption of large language models presents a significant opportunity for attackers to use AI to automate attacks while defenders still lack context about their environment. They don’t have AI deployed yet that understands their networks, their applications, their users, and their company’s policies. In the meantime, using AI to augment offensive security activities such as payload and malware generation creates a delta that gives attackers an advantage in the AI-drive cyber arms race. At Nullify, we believe we can balance the scales in this race towards defenders. We are building AI agents that are capable of performing application security work autonomously, that can reason and make decisions like a real security engineer so organisations can build more secure software without growing the headcount of their security team. We're excited with renewed backing from our existing investors at Black Nova Venture Capital along with Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Root Ventures as well as awesome angel investors like Ely Kahn, Pascal Boillat, Sajeeb Lohani to reimagine product security from first principles and enable every engineering team to access world-class security engineering expertise! If you're an application security engineer or a software engineer and would like to learn more about what we're building, come see us at the following places (links for registration in comments): 🇦🇺 Melbourne Cloud Native Security meetup next Wednesday + 🇦🇺 AppSec Dinner Club April 4th. 🇺🇸 RSA Conference May 5-8th + 🇺🇸 San Francisco Cloud Native Security Meetup + 🇺🇸Nullify’s Launch at New York Tech Week June 5th See the press release on Startup Daily and Smart Company below 👇

Nullify welcomes Dr Sharat Chandra Madanapalli as Head of AI and Data! Sharat was previously a founding engineer turned Head of Data/AI at Canopus Networks, a venture-backed research spin-off from UNSW networks commercialising AI technology to optimise the use of bandwidth in data networks, where he was building high speed traffic classification and network analytics products for telcos. Sharat holds a PhD in Computer Science from UNSW and his research and industry contributions in ML have been focused on transforming data into impactful enterprise solutions. He looks forward to bringing this expertise to Nullify, combining both technical and strategic strengths to build the data strategy with the AI research team. On why he joined Sharat, writes: “I’m excited to join Nullify and work on their pioneering security platform with a bold vision: enabling dev teams to ship secure software through the power of AI agents. Creating a robust data foundation for scalable, intelligent AI agents is an exciting challenge, and I’m thrilled to bring this vision to life alongside an exceptional team.” In his spare time, Sharat enjoys jamming on my guitar or reading non-fiction.

✨ Nullify is excited to be mentioned in the latest research by Capgemini on the AI Agents ecosystem in their "Foundation" category of Security! Link to the full report in comments 👇

🗽 Thanks to all the awesome folks in the NYC InfoSec community who stopped by for our Inaugural Cloud Native Security Meetup hosted @ Two Sigma Ventures with Sam Esmaeili and our stall at BSidesNYC last month!

What a wonderful CISO 360 Roundtable Dinner at the iconic Savoy Hotel in London last night! Hosted by Pulse Conferences, kindly sponsored by Nullify. Many thanks to our insightful co-chairs, Shan Kulkarni, Co-Founder and CEO of Nullify and to the wonderful Martyn Booth, CISO of dunnhumby. Massive thanks to the CISO guests who contributed so much to the group discussion – you know who you all are! We were even treated to a song by MC Clive Room! Talking points during the animated discussed included amongst other things: What is our propensity to go faster using AI How can we build a virtuous circle with AI in cybersecurity Good AI management is good data governance Validation of remediation is the hardest and most urgent What are our AI risks - Transparency, data leakage, reputational risk Consumer data over intellectual property (out in the wild) Secure processes (includes people) over systems What threat modelling programmes are we using AI human risk - Insider risk and behavioural analytics Check out www.ciso360roundtable.com for upcoming CISO 360 Roundtables in London and Singapore. Come and meet us at the Science Museum London next month, 6 November for the 6th 'Talk to the Board' conference! www.talktotheboard.com.

Thank you for the absolute pleasure tonight to join Pulse Conferences & Nullify for dinner tonight at The Savoy for a discussion on automation in security. Some great ideas & great discussion on AI & where it can/should help as well as Clive Room as ever fascinating me - this time with the story of Casper the Cat who dines with 13…look it up! We continue to strive to automate tier 1 tasks across security & GRC is no exception as this is very much the mission at Anecdotes! Make humans smarter & more efficient/effective not replace or destroy humankind! #pulseconferences #nullify #anecdotes #automation #grc

BSidesNYC welcomes Nullify as a gigabit sponsor for our next event on Oct 19, 2024. https://bsidesnyc.org/ Nullify is the first complete AI AppSec engineer-in-a-box for small security team https://www.nullify.ai/

Gigabit-level sponsorships for BSidesNYC are completely sold out! Much appreciation to Deepfactor, Dropzone AI, Myrror Security, Nullify, Permiso Security, Pixee | Your Automated Product Engineer, Tigera, Tines, and Virtue Security for all your support for our upcoming event on October 19, 2024. Megabit and kilobit level sponsorships are still available.

The inaugural NYC Cloud Native Security Meetup is happening in 2 weeks time! 🍕 🗽 Join us for a fun evening of networking with security and engineering folks, pizza, and drinks on us of course. We’ll be hosted by the lovely squad and our seed investors at Two Sigma in the SoHo. Details: 🗓️ Wednesday 18th September ⏰ 6:00pm - 8:00pm 📍 Two Sigma (100 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013) We’ll be joined by our guest speaker, Sam Esmaeili who is a Senior Security Engineer at Collective Health. Sam's talk will be on container security, focusing on the security considerations of deploying containerised workloads. Sam Esmaeili is a tech enthusiast who started his career as a software engineer, but quickly became captivated with cybersecurity. He currently works as a Security Engineer at Collective Health, where his team works on protecting data, systems, and people at the organization from cyber threats. Sam has experience in various fields of cybersecurity, including container, cloud, web application security and data loss prevention. RSVP for free in the link in the comments! See you there.

🔮 We're excited to have been featured in the recent report by CB Insights on AI agents tackling the future of enterprise workflows! Link to the full report in comments 👇