Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts

AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy Merza as an “Iron Man suit” for researchers — has quietly been in deployment already with a number of large enterprises and other big organizations. With today’s move out of private beta, the startup is also announcing $30 million in funding. The $30 million is coming in two tranches: a $25 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures; and a previous $5 million Seed led by Tola Capital. Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Crogl will be using the funding to continue building out its product, and its customer base. Security tools, including those aimed at helping parse and remediate the many alerts of potential issues thrown up by existing security software, to ... Read full article.