Upwind, a top innovator in cloud security, has launched its Exposure Validation Engine. This new tool offers dynamic, real-time validation in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) layer. It helps security, engineering, and compliance teams check live cloud exposures with precise, evidence-backed insights. This sets a new standard for accuracy and visibility in cloud security.
The launch coincides with Upwind’s inclusion on the 2026 Fortune × Lightspeed Cyber 60 List, recognizing the most promising cybersecurity startups shaping the future of the industry.
“Cloud security teams are tasked to do the impossible, to protect digital assets in ever changing cloud environment,” said Amiram Shachar, CEO and Co-founder of Upwind. “Our job is to simplify the work of cloud security leaders with more clarity, evidence-backed findings and precision. With this new Exposure Validation Engine, cloud security posture and exposure management moves from a noisy, reactive process to a precise, evidence-driven workflow so security teams could drive organizational impact faster.”
At the heart of the new engine lies an AI-driven validation framework that merges configuration analysis with live exposure and reachability testing—essentially evaluating vulnerabilities as an attacker would. The system performs real-world external reachability checks to determine whether assets are truly accessible or exploitable.
In early trials, Upwind identified tens of terabytes of sensitive data exposure across Fortune 2000 organizations—ranging from AI models and datasets to entire disks—underscoring the limitations of traditional CSPMs.
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By replacing hypothetical alerts with runtime evidence, Upwind delivers verified, transparent risk intelligence, reducing false positives by 90% and enabling teams to focus only on genuine threats.
Built for large-scale, multi-cloud environments, the Exposure Validation Engine enables:
Security teams to prioritize actionable, verified risks.
Engineers to reproduce and remediate exposures with step-level accuracy.
Compliance teams to generate audit-ready, evidence-based validation records.
“Upwind is not just a security tool—it’s a platform that makes our engineering, security, and audit teams faster and more effective,” said Aman Sirohi, SVP & Chief Security Officer at People.AI.
With this innovation, Upwind becomes the first CSPM platform to deliver real-time, runtime-first validation, transforming cloud exposure management from theoretical analysis to tangible, evidence-based security.