Blumira announces $10.3M raised in funding round

Michigan-based cybersecurity startup Blumira said a series A funding round generated $10.3 million, bringing the company's total funding to $12.9 million to date, according to VentureBeat. The company said it plans to use the fund for workforce acquisition and to expand its security information and event management solution. Blumira's platform allows customer IT administrators to use APIs to establish cloud security for Microsoft 365, Amazon Web Services and other cloud infrastructures, ensuring speedy deployment. "[T]here's no need to staff an in-house security operations center," said Blumira CEO Steve Fuller. "Our platform now enables mid-market companies to go from zero to a fully operational security solution in a matter of hours rather than the weeks and months it takes for the status quo tools on the market." The company also recently introduced security monitoring integration at AWS, allowing security teams to detect and address cloud security threats including and misconfigured storage buckets and anomalous logins.