About Us
Saporo’s mission is to help organizations increase their cyber resistance no matter their size or industry. Thanks to a unique approach and cutting-edge technologies, we aim at making defenders win the race against attackers and put order in chaos.
The problem we saw
Privileged account access represents the keys to the kingdom for threat actors, enabling them to move around a network almost unabated. With it, attackers can explore and extract as much sensitive data as they like. These same privileged accounts then allow the threat actor to encrypt that same stolen data and hold the organization at ransom. Identifying all potential attack paths in large and dynamic environments is impossible using manual methods. Finding, quantifying and prioritizing where to start and what to do requires automation.
How we solved it
Defenders can never hope to get ahead of attackers if attackers have a better understanding of the battlefield - the organizations own network. By leveraging the same techniques used by threat actors to visualize the most critical paths to critical resources, defenders can start to see their environment as attackers do. Once visibility is achieved, it becomes much easier to anticipate attack paths and implement the appropriate countermeasures and controls.
Our core values
Respect
We respect one another and our customers in order to build lifelong relationships.
Responsibility
We take responsibility for our actions and mistakes and deliver on our promises.
Efficiency
Everything we do, we do it smart while saving resources for us and our customers.
Founding Team Members
Saporo’s founding team is a perfect mix of entrepreneurs, product and security experts.
Olivier Eyries
Guillaume Eyries
Éric Blavier, Ph.D.
Advisory Board Members
Because the needs and challenges of our customers are our first priority, we surround ourselves with passionate people who understand and face the same challenges everyday.
Christophe Bouillard
"Saporo is an indispensable defense tool for all organizations that want to be one step ahead in controlling risks within their increasingly complex infrastructures."
Christopher Morales
"Saporo provides immediate and actionable information to focus on what matters most in a chaotic environment."
Cedric Nabe
"Saporo is the missing piece of the puzzle in providing cyber security professionals with the visibility and transparency needed to reduce the attack surface for enterprises."
Thomas Maillart, Ph.D.
Saporo offers a unique solution to simulate, verify and thus manage attack paths. I am thrilled to contribute my scientific knowledge on complex systems and extreme risks to Saporo."
Philippe Eyries
"Saporo is a disruptive and innovative solution with continuous and in-depth analysis of all attack paths allowing defenders to win the race against attackers."
Board Members
Saporo’s Board is led by experienced entrepreneurs and technical experts,
leading Saporo in the right direction for all our stakeholders.
Olivier Eyries
Guillaume Eyries
Martin Altforer
Benjamin Solenthaler
Investors
Saporo’s Board is led by experienced entrepreneurs and technical experts,
leading Saporo in the right direction for all our stakeholders.
session.vc
session.vc was founded in 2020 by Martin Altorfer and Philippe Bubb after they had spent almost two decades investing in and building companies together. They are fortunate to have been the first investors in companies like Bexio and On, where they assumed active roles as chairmen for many years. session.vc is backed by their own capital and by that of entrepreneurs and business owners both from tech- and non-tech industries.
www.session.vcLightbird Ventures
Lightbird is a new Venture Capital firm backing entrepreneurs at one of the most intense period of a company’s life – the early stage (Seed to Series A). We invest in ambitious founding teams that use technology to solve real problems for real people and real businesses. The main industries we focus on are Fintech, Proptech, Cybersecurity & Data Analytics as well as B2B SaaS. While we are able to invest globally, the majority of our investments will be close to home.
www.lightbird.vcThey trust us
Saporo is an indispensable defense tool for all organizations that want to be one step ahead in controlling risks within their increasingly complex infrastructures.
Saporo addresses strategic cybersecurity priorities in a super-fast, simple, cost effective and understandable way. Our main interest is that Saporo anticipates fragilities with calculation of priorities related to access rights and access paths. Beyond the optimization of defenses, it is a tool for minimizing the business consequences of attacks.
Saporo is an indispensable solution to prevent and fight against next-generation cyber-attacks. The solution made us aware that our Active Directory design was no longer in line with current risks. It audits directories in a way that is different from other tools, in particular by listing the various identity attack paths that we had no visibility into until now. All of the information provided allowed us to address the security issues related to AD.
We are thrilled to count Saporo as the winner of the 2022 Tech4Trust Award. Startups in our Tech4Trust Swiss Program powered by Trust Valley are dedicated to digital trust and cybersecurity. Reducing cyber-risk by eliminating excessive access on directories is a great solution in the current race between attackers and defenders.
Innovation is key to better resists attacks
Attackers need to find only one path to your critical assets. Defenders like you need to find all of them. Doing this in large and dynamic environments is impossible using manual methods. Saporo uses graph theory to automate this process, protect your critical assets and uncover your blind spots.
