Tessian raises $65M to accelerate its mission of preventing human risk in global enterprises

2021-05-25 22:45

Human Layer Security company Tessian announces that it has raised $65 million in Series C venture capital funding to accelerate its mission of quantifying and preventing human risk in global enterprises, and empowering people to do their best work without security getting in the way.

Tessian is pioneering a new approach to cybersecurity and defining a new category of security software called Human Layer Security.

While organizations have traditionally relied on training programs or restricting people's access to data and systems to overcome the so-called "People problem" in security, Tessian uses machine learning to stop data breaches and security threats caused by human error - without disrupting employee workflow.

In the last year, Tessian tripled its Fortune 500-level customer base as enterprises required a solution that could protect their company against human layer security threats.

One customer, Tim Fitzgerald, CISO at Arm said, "The security of our operations and data is paramount to the success of Arm, and we're committed to empowering our people to make sound security decisions while doing their jobs effectively. The concept of human layer security is becoming a critical part of doing business today, and Tessian enables us to reduce risk across the organization by providing valuable tools and knowledge to not only stop threats like advanced phishing attacks and accidental data loss, but also continually improve the security behaviors of our teams as the threat landscape evolves."

Tim Sadler, Co-Founder and CEO at Tessian said, "In the same way we have firewalls to secure networks, and endpoint detection and response platforms to secure devices, enterprises now need advanced security technology to secure their people. People make 35,000 decisions every day; it just takes one wrong decision or one instance of human error for an employee to cause a catastrophic security breach. We're tackling the biggest threat to enterprise security, and are thrilled to partner with March Capital on our Series C and have them join our mission to secure the human layer."

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