Introduction:
Many businesses use low-code and no-code solutions to build apps and workflows. By design, these products are probably in the hands of Zenity non-technical end users. Still, these people might need to be more familiar with the fundamentals of security and governance.
Israeli early-stage business Zenity has developed a method to make these applications safe. They have revealed a $16.5 million Series A investment to keep growing the business.
Ben Kliger and Michael Bargury, the other co-founders, realized that this capacity for producing apps quickly can have both positive and negative implications. Although these technologies allow any business user to design applications, doing so might have issues.
These technologies are beautiful because anyone can now become a developer. They give employees the tools they need to be more productive and come up with fresh ideas for themselves, their peers, and their organizations. But those people lack technological sophistication, which is the flip side of these lovely things. They lack security knowledge, too,” Kliger told TechCrunch.
This is problematic for businesses. Zenity wants to increase the security organization’s and the application security teams’ visibility into these new applications without limiting the users’ ability to create such applications. According to Bargury, there is little difference in app security depending on whether a professional developer or a corporate user made it. Still, the latter needs access to the necessary tools.
“It is irrelevant who designed the application or how it was created. It still has an identity, interacts with data, and verifies users. A lot of different things could go wrong with an application’s logic. Therefore, we need to consider this. Consequently, we now have to tackle the same difficulties once more for business users that we tried to solve or solved in application security for things developers are constructing, Bargury added.
Zenity Strives to keep No-Code/Low-Code Apps Secure:
Zenity Strives to keep No-Code/Low-Code Apps Secure (Image Source: techcrunch.com)
To gather metadata and other information about the programs being developed, Zenity connects to the no-code/low-code tools via APIs. It then scans the applications for security flaws and alerts the security teams via a centralized dashboard when it discovers things like exposed data or improperly handled identities.
Depending on the organizational strategy and requirements, the teams may automate the fixes or return the problem to the developers for correction. They may also address the issues and utilize them as teaching opportunities for the citizen developers.
The two founders met at Microsoft and became friends. They noticed this issue with a significant client that used no-code products often. In 2021, they decided to launch Zenity as a joint venture. Although they have not disclosed client numbers, the product is generally available. They’ve grown the business from the original two founders to 25 employees today and want to keep expanding with the additional capital.
Vertex Ventures, UpWest, and new investors Gefen Capital and B5 joined Intel Capital in today’s $16.5 million round, supported by previous investors Vertex Ventures and Intel Capital. According to the terms of the arrangement, Intel Capital’s investment director, Yoni Greifman, will join the startup’s board of directors.
