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Chainguard Lands $5M To Help Companies Secure Their Software Supply Chains

Dec 08, 2021•over 3 years ago

Amount Raised

$5 Million

Description

By late last year, the alarm bells were just starting to ring. Researchers discovered that Russian spies had months earlier burrowed deep into the networks of several U.S. federal networks. The spies, working for Russia’s foreign intelligence service had first targeted SolarWinds, an IT company whose software helps to remotely manage the networks of thousands of businesses, Fortune 500 organizations, and federal government agencies

Company Information

Company

Chainguard

About

Though early days, the company said it plans to bring an early version of its product offering next year, with a focus on helping companies harden their own software supply chains. Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas, and Kim Lewandowski founded Chainguard in October after working together on building open source tools at Google. Before founding Chainguard, the five most recently worked on two open source security projects, Sigstore, a new standard for digitally signing and verifying software, and SLSA (delightfully pronounced “salsa”), a framework for maintaining end-to-end integrity of a software supply chain.