Israeli cybersecurity startup Wib raises $16m investment to accelerate growth, tackle rising API security problem

Israeli cybersecurity startup Wib raises $16m investment to accelerate growth, tackle rising API security problem

Published: 08-11-2022 13:52:00 | By: Pie Kamau | hits: 3150 | Tags:

Wib, the cybersecurity startup pioneering a new era in API security, announced a $16 million investment led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the growth and venture arm of Koch Industries, with participation from Kmehin Ventures, Venture Israel, Techstars and existing investors. The investment will be used to enhance Wib's pioneering holistic API security platform and accelerate international growth as it expands operations across the Americas, UK and EMEA.

API security is one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs today. Traditional API security solutions are siloed and fragmented, leaving CIOs with a choice of multiple point products or bolt-on integrations to create a patchworked solution. This results in increased cost and complexity, reduced visibility and control, and greater exposure to risk.

Wib's holistic API security platform is the only solution to provide complete visibility across the entire API landscape, from code to production, helping unify software developers, cyber defenders, and CIOs around a single holistic view of their complete API domain. By delivering rigorous real-time inspection, management, and control at every stage of the API lifecycle, Wib can automate inventory and API change management; identify rogue, zombie and shadow APIs and analyse business risk and impact, helping organisations to reduce and harden their API attack surface.

Gil Don, CEO and Co-founder, Wib: "APIs have become the Achilles heel of cyber defenses and the number one threat vector for cyber-attacks. APIs account for 91% of today's internet traffic with over 50% being invisible to business IT and security teams. These unknown, unmanaged, and unsecured APIs are creating massive blind spots for CIOs that expose critical business logic vulnerabilities and increase risk. What's more, traditional and legacy web security approaches, like WAFs and API Gateways, were never designed to protect against modern logic-based vulnerabilities. The Wib platform has been purposely built for an API driven world creating a new category of API native security."

www.wib.com