Seal Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup founded by a group of former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit, is coming out of stealth t

Seal Security wants to make open-source vulnerability remediation easy

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2024-02-13 17:00:03

Seal Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup founded by a group of former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7.4 million seed funding round like by Vertex Ventures Israel, with participation from Crew Capital, PayPal Alumni Fund, and Cyber Club London.

Ever since the Log4j vulnerability was discovered and the White House issued its software supply chain executive order, everybody who builds software knows about the importance of keeping the many open-source libraries they rely on up to date. But that’s often easier said than done, with large enterprises often employing entire teams that focus on nothing else but keeping their packages updated. In recent years, we’ve seen a number of security companies that specialize in alerting developers when one of their packages is vulnerable and while that’s valuable, the real work is in remediating these vulnerabilities, which in most cases simply involves installing an update.

Seal was founded by Itamar Sher (CEO), Lev Pachmanov (CTO) and Alon Navon (CPO). After their time in Unit 8200, the team members worked at various companies, including Cymmetria, Curv and PayPal. Sher tells me that the team joined forces in the summer of 2022.