Rig Security Raises $12 Million Seed Round And Emerges From Stealth
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Rig Security has emerged from stealth with $12 million in seed funding to develop an identity protection platform designed for human, machine, and AI-agent identities. Ten Eleven Ventures and Brightmind Partners co-led the financing, with strategic participation from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund. Other investors include cybersecurity founders and executives such as Wiz Co-Founder Ami Luttwak. Rig is targeting a security challenge created by AI agents that operate using identities, credentials and sessions belonging to people or service accounts. The platform is designed to distinguish activity performed by an AI agent from activity performed directly by the human or machine identity whose access it is using. Rig combines Identity Security Posture Management and Identity Threat Detection and Response with controls specifically designed for AI and other non-human identities. Its proprietary Rig Identity Correlation Engine, or RICE, correlates the same identity across identity providers, cloud infrastructure, on-premises systems, network edges and endpoints. Rig said internal testing showed RICE resolving identities with more than 96% accuracy. The system feeds Rig's Identity Dependencies Graph, which maps relationships among accounts, permissions, sessions and trust relationships. Rig also offers a lightweight endpoint sensor that can distinguish an AI agent's session from a...
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