Protecting The Cloud

For many reasons, securing cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud is a major trouble spot for organizations. Lack of visibility, a massively expanded attack surface and the highly dynamic nature of the cloud are just a few of the big issues facing security teams who are charged with protecting cloud-based resources. As just one indicator of their struggles, cybersecurity professionals who were surveyed at the RSA Conference in April reported that their biggest concern is cloud security, beating out worries about ransomware and remote work, according to a report from access management vendor Delinea.

[Related: The 10 Hottest Cybersecurity Startups In 2023 (So Far) ]

Not surprisingly, many cybersecurity startups have chosen to focus on addressing these challenges, and a number of up-and-coming cloud security startups have been busy raising funding and deploying their products to more customers in 2023 so far. Notably, many cloud security startups — even those still at the early-stage level — have also been working closely with channel partners, in another sign of the massive market demand for innovation in the cloud security space.

Major focus areas for cloud security startups in 2023 include helping to secure data and identities in cloud environments, while other startups are offering capabilities for investigations and incident response in the cloud.

We’ve been tracking a number of cloud security startups and have chosen 10 that especially caught our attention during the first half of 2023. We’ve focused on startups founded since 2018 that you may not have heard about yet, but that we think are worth checking out (we’re intentionally omitting cloud security startups that have already achieved significant scale and wide recognition, such as Wiz and Orca Security).

What follows are the 10 hottest cloud security startups in 2023 so far.