Case in point, Xage Security, a startup providing software to thwart network intrusions, today announced that it raised $20 million in a B2 funding round that brings the company's total raised to $80 million. Piva Capital, March Capital, SCF Partners, Overture Climate Fund, Valor Equity Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures and Science Applications International Corporation participated in Xage's B2. Geoffrey Mattson, who was appointed Xage's CEO in September, says the proceeds will be put toward R&D and expanding Xage's go-to-market operations with a focus on expanding its presence in the Asia Pacific region.
Now the U.S. Air Force has adopted zero trust to improve and protect its flightline.
The flightline, strictly speaking, is the aircraft’s maintenance area; either an area of runway or a hanger. It effectively includes any part of the airfield where an aircraft is being prepared for flight. However, data from each aircraft in the flightline must be returned to a central repository for analysis and to ensure that enough parts are available to guarantee – quite literally – the uptime of each machine.
Typically, in the past, data from the aircraft would be transferred to a USB drive and literally walked to applications in the hanger, or further afield to the central repository. The flightline consequently would comprise the aircraft in its maintenance position, a maintenance engineer with a USB drive, and the central server. This is what is being updated to zero trust.