A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection

While working on internet-of-things security in the mid-2010s, Alex Zenla realized something troubling. After puzzling over the problem for a few years, she started working on a technology to make it possible for nearly any device to run in its own isolated cloud space, known as a “container.” Now, a decade later, she's one of three female cofounders of a security company that's trying to change how cloud infrastructure shares resources. Known as Edera, the company makes cloud workload isolation tech that may sound like a niche tool, but it aims to address a universal security problem when many applications or even multiple customers are using shared cloud infrastructure. So you start to see that just by existing and being different, you are showing what’s possible.” For Zenla, Long, and cofounder Ariadne Conill, who has an extensive background in open source software and security, the goal of developing Edera's container isolation technology is to make it easy for network engineers and IT managers to implement robust guardrails and separation across their systems so an exploited vulnerability in one piece of network equipment or a rogue insider situation won't—and can't—spiral into a disastrous mega-breach. “People have legacy applications in their infrastructure and use end-of-life software; there’s no way to do security and believe that you can always patch every existing vulnerability,” Long says.