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CoGuard

CybersecurityWaterloo, ON

Waterloo company developing a static-analysis engine and CLI that scan configuration files across cloud accounts, infrastructure-as-code, containers and applications for security misconfigurations, with compliance-mapped reports and auto-remediation.

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About

Company site: coguard.io

Waterloo company developing a static-analysis engine and CLI that scan configuration files across cloud accounts, infrastructure-as-code, containers and applications for security misconfigurations, with compliance-mapped reports and auto-remediation.

  • Named among recipients of OpenAI's Cybersecurity Grant Program, using the funding for research on generating configuration security rules with OpenAI's API, per BetaKit. betakit.com

  • Teledyne FLIR's Electronic Log Book (ELB) team uses CoGuard to manage configuration security in its CI/CD process, per a CoGuard case study quoting the ELB team lead. coguard.io

  • Partnered with smart-contract auditor Quantstamp to assess misconfigurations in the Web2 infrastructure behind Web3 stacks. coguard.io

Products & Services

Company site: coguard.io

Products CoGuard publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

CoGuard

Infrastructure configuration security audits

Agentless platform that discovers infrastructure from code repositories and cloud credentials, scans configurations for security issues, prioritizes findings, filters them by frameworks such as SOC2, HIPAA and ISO27001, and auto-remediates common misconfigurations.

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CoGuard CLI

Command line tools

Command line tool installed from PyPI that auto-discovers configuration files in a repository, cloud provider or Docker image and scans them, with a free developer tier and GitHub Workflows support.

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Partnerships

Publicly announced partnerships.

Quantstamp

Partnership with the smart-contract auditor to identify misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in the Web2 infrastructure behind Web3 stacks.

Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. CanExport SMEs, Government of Canada (record filed by National Research Council Canada) — contribution

Recent News

  1. Jun 24, 2024Funding

    CoGuard received funding from OpenAI's Cybersecurity Grant Program

    BetaKit reported that Kitchener-Waterloo-based CoGuard was named among recipients of OpenAI's Cybersecurity Grant Program. The grant, whose size was not disclosed, funded a research project using OpenAI's API to identify and add new policies and rules for software configurations.

Technology Focus

Company site: coguard.io

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Configuration static analysisInfrastructure security auditsInfrastructure as codeAuto-remediationCI/CD

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