Santa Clara, CA | April 15, 2025 – Aurascape, an innovative provider of AI-native security, has been named one of the Top 10 Finalists for the 20th annual RSAC™ 2025 Conference Innovation Sandbox contest for its work in safeguarding user and app activities across thousands of AI applications and tools. Driven by an AI-native engine, the platform provides unsurpassed breadth and depth of visibility and controls for every AI interaction. Aurascape will present its technology to a panel of renowned industry judges and a live in-person audience on Monday, April 28 at RSAC 2025 Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

The RSAC™ Innovation Sandbox contest, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025, has become the world’s premier showcase for the cybersecurity startup community as promising young cybersecurity companies showcase their groundbreaking technologies and compete for the title of “Most Innovative Startup.” The competition is widely recognized as a catapult for success as the Top 10 Finalists have collectively celebrated more than 90 acquisitions and received $16.4 billion in investments over the last 19 years. Aurascape will have three minutes to pitch the panel of judges before a question-and-answer round. For the first time, each of the Top 10 Finalists in 2025 will receive a $5 million investment to drive cybersecurity innovation.

“As we enter a new age of threats, innovation and new technologies are critical to achieving a safer society,” said Cecilia Marinier, Vice President, Innovation & Scholars, RSAC. “The RSAC™ Innovation Sandbox contest is an unparalleled opportunity for both the industry and the entrepreneur to highlight industry-changing solutions, companies, and entrepreneurs.” 

Existing security solutions have yet to solve the need for comprehensive AI protection. Traditional firewalls, proxies, and Secure Service Edge (SSE) solutions cannot pivot fast enough to decipher the dynamic ways AI applications communicate, resulting in lack of visibility into the majority of AI activity.

Established by a world-class team with deep expertise in security, AI, and networking, Aurascape clears the way for companies to maximize the potential of AI while minimizing security risk. The Aurascape platform is built specifically to prevent AI-driven threats, protect users and data, and keep teams productive. Many legacy security protocols just aren’t built to deal with the complexities of AI usage, but Aurascape is.

Key capabilities of the Aurascape platform include:

• Unsurpassed observability: Visibility, risk analysis, and prompt + response decoding for thousands of AI apps, with rapid identification and incorporation of the newest AI-powered tools for “long-tail” AI coverage.
• AI-native protection: Data security with minimal false positives for AI interactions, and threat prevention for sophisticated AI-driven threats. Aurascape processes and protects multimodal data; whether the data exists as text, code, images, videos, audio, or a wide variety of the other formats AI applications work with.
• Automated policies and remediation: Security policies that evolve to incorporate brand-new AI tools and plug-ins, automating visibility, protection, and dispute resolution to keep security teams effective and end-users productive.

This recognition comes on the heels of Aurascape’s exciting launch from stealth mode and $50M in funding. Lead investors include Mayfield and Menlo Ventures, along with a strategic set of investors such as Celesta Capital, security industry leaders, including former Palo Alto Networks CEO Mark McLaughlin, former Symantec CEO Greg Clark, the Chairman of Walden International Lip-Bu Tan, and former Zscaler Chief Strategy Officer Manoj Apte.

The RSAC™ Innovation Sandbox contest kicks off at 9:30 AM PT on Monday, April 28 and winners will be announced at approximately noon the same day. The panel of renowned expert judges includes David Chen, Head of Global Technology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley; Dorit Dor, Chief Technology  Officer at Check Point Software Technologies; Niloofar Razi Howe, Operating Partner at Capitol Meridian Partners; Paul Kocher, Independent Researcher; Nasrin Rezai, SVP & CISO at Verizon; and Christopher  Young, Investor and former CEO at McAfee and former Microsoft Exec; Hugh Thompson, RSAC™ Executive Chairman and Program Committee Chair of RSAC™ Conference, will return to host the contest.

For more information regarding RSAC™ 2025 Conference, taking place at the Moscone Center in San  Francisco from April 28 – May 1, please visit https://www.rsaconference.com/usa

About Aurascape

Established by a world-class team with deep expertise in security, AI, and networking, Aurascape clears the way for companies to maximize the potential of AI while minimizing security risk. The Aurascape platform is built specifically to prevent AI-driven threats, protect users and data, and keep teams productive. Many legacy security protocols just aren’t built to deal with the complexities of AI usage. Aurascape is. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by top-tier investors led by Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures, and industry veterans including Mark McLaughlin, former CEO of Palo Alto Networks. For more information, please visit: www.aurascape.ai

About RSAC

As the cybersecurity industry’s convening authority, RSAC brings together diverse minds to exchange perspectives, knowledge, and ideas. RSAC provides the world’s leading platform for uniting and advancing the cybersecurity community to create a safer society. RSAC is at the cutting edge of cybersecurity innovation and education. The company’s flagship event, RSAC™ Conference, is the largest and most influential global gathering in cybersecurity. RSAC gives cybersecurity professionals a platform to connect and grow. To learn more, visit OneRSAC.com