AI Startup Jazz Secures $61M to Rethink Data Loss Prevention

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A data loss prevention startup founded by a former Axonius leader raised $61 million to analyze every data transaction across systems, people and business processes.

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The Glilot and Team8-led Seed and Series A funding will help New York-based Jazz develop agents that analyze the data itself, the systems involved, the people interacting with the data and the business processes surrounding the transaction, said co-founder and CEO Ido Livneh. Jazz also collects signals from endpoints to understand the sequence of events surrounding data access and movement.

"DLP is not a new problem. Every board, every security organization knows about the risk of DLP," Livneh told Information Security Media Group. "But the fact of the matter ...