Israeli startup Entro has attracted investor interest in technology aimed at helping businesses manage and secure secrets like API keys, access tokens and certifications scattered around cloud deployments.
The company emerged from stealth Wednesday with $6 million in seed-stage funding and a product that provides an inventory of secrets across vaults, code and CI/CD pipelines and helps security teams manage the age-old problem of secrets sprawl.
Entro said the funding round was led by StageOne Ventures and Hyperwise Ventures.
The company is entering a market that’s becoming more and more competitive as venture capital investors pour money into new companies in the secrets management and software supply chain security space.
Entro said its product can be used to continuously monitor and protect secrets and programmatic access to cloud services and data. It is also capable of detecting, safeguarding and providing context for secrets stored across vaults, source code, collaboration tools, cloud environments and SaaS platforms.
In addition to safeguarding cloud services and data from secret-based breaches, Entro said its technology can help businesses meet regulations like SOC 2 that require secrets protection such as rotation
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