Bridgecrew announces $14M Series A to automate cloud security

I was hired by a decently well know consumer tech company in 2018 to investigate automated cloud security platforms. They handled a good deal of financial data so I was told (and this is the only time I've been told this in my career) cost wasn't an issue.

The first day at my work my manager handed my a 49 point spreadsheet with each row as a security functionality he wanted to see. Thee were a dozen columns for a dozen vendors.

Thus began an incredibly tedious of reading through literally every marketing word and documentation reference on each vendors site. Also my god the countless demos and follow up questions with the reps.

By the end of it I was convinced of one thing. All anyone did was "monitor" and "alert" on "stuff". Nothing took any action. Just alerts and monitoring and reporting and dashboards and metrics.

If an application would arrive that would actually "do security stuff" instead of just "Business Intelligence for Network Engineers"...I would really be motivated to use, recommend, and evangelize that application.