While working on Internet security in the mid -2010. Alex Zenla realized something disturbing.
Unlike computers and servers, which advertised the latest, largest processors, chips on IoT devices could not support cloud protection that used other computers to keep them muted and protected. As a result, most built -in devices were attached directly to the local network, potentially exposing them to more susceptible to attack. At that time, Zenla was a great teenager working on IoT and Open Source platforms and building communities in Minecraft IRC channels. After a few years of the puzzle on the problem, she began working on technology to allow almost every device to work in its own isolated cloud space, known as a “container”. Ten years later, he is one of the three co -founders of a security company that tries to change the way the cloud infrastructure divides resources.
Known as Edera, the company creates a cloud load technology that can sound like a niche tool, but aims to solve a universal security problem when many applications and even many customers exploit a common cloud infrastructure. For example, the constantly growing AI loads are based on the GPU for raw processing power instead of standard processors, but these systems have been designed for maximum performance and capacity, and not with handrails to separate and protect various processes. As a result, the attacker, who can threaten with one region of the system, is much more likely that he will be able to rotate and gain more access.
“These problems are very difficult, both on the GPU and the insulation of the container, but I think that people were too fighting to accept compromises that were not really acceptable,” says Zenla.
In the United States and around the worldFinancing projects for technological startups has always been a boys’ club with a extensive majority of VC dollars Going to the founders of the men. The founders who receive initial support have more difficult time Raising subsequent missiles than men and face to face much more steep opportunities to start another company after failure. And these winds are becoming stronger because the Trump administration in the USA and great technology assembly of the attack on diversity, justice and inclusion initiatives aimed at increasing awareness of this kind of reality and supporting integration.
“We cannot ignore the fact that we are a small minority in our industry and that many changes that are happening around us do not raise us,” says the general director of Edera and co -founder Emily Long. “We take great pride and responsibility for continuing it. Since our foundation, I cannot say how much incredibly technical, talented women have been proactively asked us to employ them from large institutions. You start to see that existing and being different, show what is possible. “
For Zenla, Długa and co -founder Ariadne Conill, who has extensive experience in Open Source software and safety, to develop Emeric container insulation technology is to facilitate (at least relatively relatively) for network engineers and IT managers to implement a solid stem and separation in their systems, thanks to which the sensitivity used in one element of network equipment or The dishonest confidential situation will not be-and in a catastrophic mega-break.
“People have older applications in their infrastructure and use the software at the end of their lives; There is no way to keep safety and believe that you can always patch any existing gap, “says Long. “But by nature it creates a fairly large risk profile. In addition, the containers have never been originally designed to isolate from each other, so you had to choose between innovations, efficiency and safety, and we do not want people to have this compromise. “