According to Dreeze, traditional backup tools restore the data, but modern cloud applications depend on hundreds or thousands of other components: network settings, identities and permissions, encryption keys and connections to outside systems. After a cyberattack or failure the data comes back but the application stays down, and IT teams rebuild it by hand, sometimes for days or weeks. Ziv Kedem told Geektime about a distributor that had to pay a ransom partly because its encryption keys had never been backed up.
The platform, a SaaS service, connects to the customer's cloud accounts with read-only permissions and no installed agents, and continuously maps which resources belong to each application and how they depend on each other. It keeps data, configurations and encryption keys in an immutable vault inside the customer's own account and builds a recovery plan that brings components back in the right order. Recoveries can be rehearsed in an isolated environment without touching production.
The company has 70 employees at its development center in Israel and in the US, and will use the money to hire dozens more, for development and to expand sales and marketing.
