Guardare, Inc. Raises $5.1M in Seed Funding
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Guardare’s risk model is powered by its AI engine. It ingests normalized signals from all connected integrations, then applies proprietary algorithms that weigh severity, exploitability, and business impact. The model is dynamic - it continuously updates as new vulnerabilities, device states, and user behaviors are ingested. This ensures Guardare’s prioritized recommendations always reflect the most current and actionable view of risk in your environment.
Yes. Guardare automatically correlates identity and device data with vulnerability, endpoint, and application information. This means the platform can highlight where sensitive or regulated data (PII, PHI, PCI) may reside and which devices or systems hold that data. Paired with integrations into DLP, endpoint security, and cloud storage systems, Guardare maps not just the existence of sensitive data but its context in relation to the broader risk landscape.
All data is securely stored in Guardare’s cloud environment. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit using industry-standard protocols. Access is governed by Guardare’s RBAC policy, with strict identity and MFA controls (Okta, Entra, Google Workspace). Data retention follows Guardare’s Data Management and Retention Policy, aligned with SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements.
AI is central to Guardare’s platform. It analyzes all ingested data against frameworks like NIST and MITRE ATT&CK, correlating risks across people, devices, and applications. The AI doesn’t just flag issues - it prioritizes them based on actual risk exposure and business impact. This allows Guardare to cut through alert fatigue and surface what to fix, why it matters, and how to fix it.
Guardare connects directly to your existing security and IT platforms through API integrations. These integrations cover identity providers (Okta, Entra, Google Workspace), endpoint tools (CrowdStrike, Bitdefender, Sophos, etc.), and cloud services (AWS, Microsoft 365, Google, etc.). Once connected, Guardare ingests normalized data in near real-time, ensuring you don’t need agents or manual exports. For on-premise visibility, the GuardScan Agent can be deployed to capture network-level data.
Single pane of glass cybersecurity is a term that defines a unified, consolidated approach to visualization, in which a single, centralized dashboard or platform houses all data, insights, and controls associated with an organization/s security stack.
An IT asset management policy formally outlines the steps an organization has to take to completely manage its IT assets, ensuring that they are proactively protected and compliant with all necessary statutes and regulations. Steps typically include all phases of an asset’s lifecycle, from creation or adoption to removal or disengagement.
Guardare provides the asset visibility needed to effectively conduct IT asset management steps across an organization. In addition to this capability, Guardare also offers real-time tracking, AI-assisted risk assessment, and gap identification in an organization’s current infrastructure and security stack.
Asset management in cybersecurity is a multi-step process that identifies, manages, and protects all assets across an organization that are digitized. The term also typically includes an ongoing strategy for monitoring across software, data, and cloud spaces, ensuring that all assets remain protected and in compliance.
Yes, Guardare is a legitimate cybersecurity solution available to SMBs and enterprises. Guardare is supported by the multiple decades of combined experience between its leadership team members and is currently led by two seasoned owner-operators and serial entrepreneurs.
The product is also constantly expanding and evolving with the support and feedback of our Customer Advisory Board—which is composed of industry experts and thought leaders, CISOs, vCISOs, CTOs, and IT managers, like Roger Grimes, Chase Cunningham, and John Graham.
Guardare is a standalone product that maximizes the benefit of all other software products in an organization’s security stack, using both expert human insights and AI-based algorithms to function. This intersection of collaboration results in higher overall ROI for both end users and organizational stakeholders. In addition to this benefit, it offers comprehensive, single-pane-of-glass dashboards for complete security visualization and management of your people, devices, and software; as well as over 100+ integrations to date.
Guardare means “to watch” or “to guard” in Italian. It represents the mission of continuous monitoring and protecting/watching over the companies.
Data security is not the same thing as cybersecurity. Data security focuses on securing an organization's or stakeholder’s data. Cybersecurity is a broader term encompassing all other security measures that an entity might take to protect its interests, whether they’re related to perception, profitability, security, or the general functionality of a set system.
The main goal of cyber risk management is to ensure that an organization or stakeholder is proactively protected from cyber threats, to ensure ongoing business continuity and operational resilience.
Once this baseline level of security is established, the goal expands to identify any future threats proactively, as technology evolves.
NIST 2.0 clearly outlines the six elements of cyber risk management: Identify, protect, detect, respond, recover, and govern.
Guardare combines AI and cybersecurity seamlessly, leveraging AI to expand integration opportunities in pre-existing security stacks, summarize comprehensive reports and dashboards for users, and support end users as they complete compliance-related tasks.
Yes, you can combine AI and cybersecurity, especially when you use agentic AI. This collaboration between AI and cybersecurity specialists gives you a more complete, holistic view of your threat landscape than other alternatives. It’s so powerful that Gartner projects that over 75% of all security tasks will be managed by AI in 2025.
AI enhances cybersecurity efforts by assisting with visibility, automation, and response-related tasks, functioning primarily as an extension of a human cybersecurity team.
Dane Fiori and Lars Letonoff are the founders of Guardare, serving as President and CEO, respectively. They’re joined by fellow co-founders and advisors Charles Mitchell, Christian Sheedy, and Mike Santos.
Guardare is an AI platform trained on NIST, ISO, SOC2, CIS, and other security frameworks and sets—like MITRE ATT&CK. It uses this information to appropriately assess and map risks across your users, devices, and software.
Once this holistic landscape is established, Guardare combines AI and cybersecurity expertise by suggesting and prioritizing mitigation steps for your human experts to execute—whether your company has a team of hundreds or you’re working with a solo cybersecurity consultant.
The Guardare team is constantly monitoring the latest guidance, control updates and best practices from the Infosec and GRC community. We also listen to our existing customers for product and compliance requirements that might exist to build out our future roadmap.
Yes, Guardare is channel-friendly and will facilitate collaboration with any established reseller or MSP you may want to work through.
You can add seats beyond your subscription allotment and a Guardian will connect with you after the fact to update your seat count.
Yes there will be RBAC functionality built into the Guardare platform.
The Guardare platform offers a centralized management console that can be easily configured for multiple related organizations, ensuring data privacy and security.
Yes, our servers are geographically redundant across multiple regions.
Our data retention policy states we will retain data in the Guardare platform for 12 months. At any point upon request, data destruction will occur within 12 days of receipt of the destruction request. For additional information, a Guardian can provide more details.
Yes, all data being shared with Guardare will be encrypted. For more information on the encryption process, a Guardian will connect you to our technical team.
The Guardare platform is a SaaS-based cloud application. The GuardScan executable runs on the local network.
The Guadare development team has built a custom algorithm that involves raw data from MITRE ATT&CK, Vulnerability Scores (CVSS), and impact of an event to assign a baseline risk score that can be measured over time at the organization level or granular down to the employee. To learn more about this algorithm, a Guardian (Guardare employee) can share more information upon request.
During the implementation process, the first two steps of setting up your Guardare platform will begin the process of collecting data for the people, devices and applications connecting to your network.
There are no limits to the amount of applications you can integrate with Guardare. The Guardare platform is designed to work seamlessly with your existing security infrastructure, and we continually add new integrations to keep you ahead of the curve.
Companies can start with Guardare by signing up for the Beta version of Guardare on the Guardare website. The team will then reach out to them to schedule a walkthrough and to set up their account. The entire process, from sign-up to launch and use, takes an average of 45 minutes.
Guardare is designed to provide value to businesses at every stage of growth—whether you’re leading a newly minted small- or mid-sized business, or you’re looking for an enterprise visibility solution.
The Guardare implementation process is a snap! Once you have been granted admin access to the console, your initial asset mapping only requires a few simple steps that can be completed within 10 minutes. From this point, you will get step-by-step instructions on how to complete the key integrations needed for information to start flowing into the Guardare console.
Guardare identifies vulnerabilities in your existing security programs, providing actionable steps for security stack optimization and additional cost- and time-saving maneuvers. Most business owners quantify the benefits of these changes after just a few weeks of streamlined implementation and support from Guardare.
Stakeholders see value from the Guardare platform minutes after onboarding is complete. The visibility that Guardare offers is unparalleled and instant—and its smart recommendations, sourced from human expertise and rigorous AI training on cybersecurity frameworks (such as NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, and SOC) lay a cybersecurity foundation that allows IT managers and cyber experts to take action on present risks from the moment of launch.
See how Guardare’s AI-powered cybersecurity platform delivers instant visibility, actionable insights, and best-practice recommendations tailored to your environment—all in one unified solution. Book your personalized demo and take the first step toward securing your future.
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