Security News > 2020 > August > Data Security Company Symmetry Systems Emerges From Stealth
Symmetry Systems, a provider of data store and object security solutions, emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $3 million in seed funding from ForgePoint Capital and Prefix Capital.
The company is the result of data security research they conducted over the past decade.
Symmetry Systems says its solution was fine-tuned based on feedback from over 50 security practitioners, and it has already been tested by tech, healthcare, manufacturing and fintech organizations.
"The difficult thing about data security is that a solution will need to look into data objects and across data stores to learn how user and service identities use data - and then tie it to an organization's security and compliance targets. DataGuard learns attributes about the data and uses this visibility to drive compliance, detection-response and guide infrastructure and data-store specific defenses."
"Security engineers struggle with ground truth visibility into data protection; current solutions provide visibility into network and endpoint-devices but data stores are a blind spot. DataGuard is deployed inside our customer's private cloud or on premise servers, so we, the developers of Symmetry Systems, don't have access to customers' data. They can collaborate with our customers through a separate locked down machine via sanitized DataGuard outputs," Tiwari added, noting that DataGuard can also be offered as a service hosted by Symmetry itself.