Hush Security has launched out of stealth with an $11 million seed funding round to tackle a major problem in cybersecurity: the reliance on secrets. The company’s new platform helps businesses move away from using overburdened vaults and passwords to secure machine-to-machine access.
The need for digital keys and credentials has grown rapidly with the rise of cloud services, hybrid networks, and AI. According to Hush Security CEO Micha Rave, this has created a complicated and manual process where different teams have to manage and share keys, creating a significant security risk.
Hush’s solution is to eliminate credentials entirely. Its platform uses a “just-in-time policy” that allows a machine to decide whether to grant access based on a set of rules built into the code. This policy can be highly specific, allowing access only to a particular machine or group of machines based on attributes like a serial number. It can also be conditional, for example, granting access only during a certain time of day or after another security service has verified the machine is safe.
By doing this, Hush aims to make credential-based threats a thing of the past. The company argues that while its new system requires effort to set up, it is far more secure and efficient than managing thousands of separate passwords. As Rave points out, vaults were built for a different era, and they cannot keep up with the speed of AI agents and automated systems.
The $11 million in seed funding, led by Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, will be used to expand Hush’s engineering team and accelerate its global go-to-market efforts.
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