Cloud Chaos Fighters: Native’s Bold Bid to Tame Multicloud Security Mayhem

On a rainy Monday, as Fortune 500 security teams scrambled to patch the latest zero-day threat, a stealthy newcomer emerged from the shadows with a daring promise: to bring order to the wild, tangled world of multicloud security. Native, founded by a trio of cloud security veterans, says it has built the ultimate control plane to make sense of the chaos-and just raised $42 million to prove it.

Fast Facts

• Native launched with $42 million in backing, including a $31 million Series A led by Ballistic Ventures.
• The platform translates high-level security intentions into automated, provider-specific enforcement across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
• Native’s founders previously led security initiatives at AWS and Check Point.
• The platform includes pre-deployment simulation to prevent business disruption.
• Organizations in finance, tech, and media are already using Native’s solution.

The cloud revolution promised agility and scale-but it delivered complexity and risk, too. Modern enterprises now juggle infrastructure across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Each provider offers a dizzying array of native security controls, yet applying them consistently is a nightmare. Even top-tier security teams admit: one misconfigured policy can bring business to a halt-or open the door for attackers.

Enter Native. Rather than adding another monitoring tool or detection layer, Native’s platform acts as a universal translator for cloud security. Security teams simply define their intentions-say, “no public S3 buckets”-and Native translates that policy into the specific technical controls for each cloud provider, applying them directly through native enforcement mechanisms. The process is automated, consistent, and scalable-even for teams lacking deep multi-cloud expertise.

What sets Native apart? The inclusion of pre-deployment simulations. Before any policy is enforced, Native runs impact simulations to reveal potential business disruptions. Intelligent rollout strategies and built-in approval workflows ensure that security doesn’t come at the cost of uptime or productivity.

With attackers leveraging AI to discover and exploit vulnerabilities faster than ever, the pressure is on defenders to keep up. Zero-day exploits and configuration drift are constant threats. By embedding security controls directly into the architecture-instead of layering on after-the-fact detection-Native aims to close the gap between strategy and reality.

Native’s leadership reads like a who’s-who of cloud security: CEO Amit Megiddo previously led Amazon GuardDuty, CPO Gal Ordo ran AWS Security Hub, and CTO Eyal Faingold built Check Point’s cloud security business. Former Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables sits on the board. With heavyweight backers and early traction in sensitive industries, Native is betting that security by design-and by automation-is the only way forward in the multicloud era.

As the arms race between attackers and defenders accelerates, the era of manual, ad hoc cloud security is ending. Native’s vision: make security a default, invisible layer-so companies can innovate without fear of what lurks in the digital shadows.

WIKICROOK

• Zero: A zero-day vulnerability is a hidden security flaw unknown to the software maker, with no fix available, making it highly valuable and dangerous to attackers.
• Cloud control plane: The cloud control plane manages and orchestrates cloud resources, handling access, configuration, and monitoring-making it crucial for cloud security.
• Provider: A provider delivers cybersecurity services or infrastructure. Using native enforcement means relying on the provider’s built-in security controls instead of third-party tools.
• Configuration drift: Configuration drift is the unintended change of system settings over time, leading to inconsistencies, security risks, and management challenges in IT environments.
• Pre: A pre is an illegal leak of digital content before its official release, often causing financial and reputational harm to creators or companies.