It has been announced today that Gem Security, the cloud detection and response (CDR) company, has been shortlisted in the category of Security Innovation of the Year (Enterprise) for the 2023-2024 Cloud Awards.
Cloud-native and agentless CDR platform from Gem redefines security operations for the cloud era by allowing incident responders to significantly speed up the process of detecting, analyzing, and containing cloud attacks by reducing the time it takes to detect, investigate, and contain them.

With its mission to promote excellence and innovation in cloud computing, the Cloud Awards have been in existence since 2011. Past winners include Attivo Networks, Dig, Guardicore, and Tanium. There were hundreds of organizations that entered the 2022-2023 Cloud Awards program, including those from North America, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East.
In Gem Security's opinion, legacy detection and response tools aren't able to deal with the complexity and scale of today's multi-cloud environments, according to Gem Security's Co-Founder and CEO Arie Zilberstein. "Gem empowers SecOps teams with a simple and automated approach that allows them to respond faster and effectively defend the cloud infrastructures which their businesses depend on."
While traditional cloud security tools are designed for the "shift left" requirements of DevOps teams for managing static vulnerabilities and compliance, the Gem platform was developed from the ground up in order to address the real-time, "right of boom," threat detection and incident response needs of SecOps teams.
The platform is rapidly operationalized by plugging directly into cloud environments via APIs to continuously collect rich telemetry; sending alerts to existing SOC tools such as SIEM, SOAR, and XDR; enriching investigations with context from other tools such as IAM, CSPM/CWPP, EDR, and ticketing; and integrating all of these tools seamlessly.
Using a data lake architecture as a basis for its scalability and cost-effectiveness, the Gem platform identifies suspicious activity and investigates it using advanced behavioral analytics models and correlations designed specifically for the way the cloud works and is based around it.
When a suspicious activity occurs, Gem creates a visual investigation timeline showing everything that happened before, during, and after the alert – thus providing a full story of a multi-stage attack in minutes versus hours or days of manual queries, which results in a significant reduction in Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) for the company. With the help of automated pre-built actions such as deleting users, isolating compromised instances, and taking forensic snapshots, SOC teams can contain attacks instantly.
Gem has been recognized as a Cool VendorTM for the Modern Security Operations Center1 as well as a Sample Vendor for Cloud Investigation and Response Automation (CIRA)2 by Gartner®, which follows Gem's recognition as a Cool VendorTM for the Modern Security Operations Center1.
In what has been a challenging year for the technology industry at times, we have seen a remarkable year of innovation in the Cloud, as stated by James Williams, Head of Operations for The Cloud Awards. "There has been a fierce competition at the outset and all shortlisted organizations have displayed unique strengths and made it through the fierce competition."
The competition accepts entries from all over the world and across a wide range of industries.
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In addition to being recognized by Gartner as one of the Cool VendorsTM in Modern Security Operations Centers, Gem Security provides an agentless Cloud Detection & Response (CDR) solution that drastically reduces the time it takes to detect, investigate, and contain multi-stage cloud attacks across the entire cloud attack surface. Among the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, etc.) are also supported.
With years of experience responding to some of the most sophisticated cloud attacks in the world, Gem was founded by SecOps experts with years of experience performing incident response for a variety of them. As of today, Gem is funded by GGV Capital, Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI), and Team8, along with strategic investments by Cisco Investments and IBM Ventures. Please visit gem.security for more information.
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1.2 Gartner, Cool Vendors for the Modern Security Operations Center, Angel Berrios, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Pete Shoard, Evgeny Mirolyubov, Carlos De Sola Caraballo, 30 August 2022. 3.3 Gartner, Hype Cycle for Workload and Network Security, 2023, Charlie Winckless & Feng Gao, July 31, 2023.
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