Teleskope

Teleskope operates as a data protection company, offering a platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance for businesses. The company was co-founded in 2022 by CEO Elizabeth Nammour and CTO Julie Trias. The idea for Teleskope originated from Nammour's experience as a security engineer at Airbnb, where she was tasked with cataloging and classifying immense amounts of data across numerous platforms. Finding existing products inadequate in accuracy and performance, her team developed internal data security tools, which laid the groundwork for Teleskope. Nammour, a computer science graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, and Trias, a military veteran and former Linux kernel developer who was part of Airbnb's site reliability and data security teams, combined their expertise to launch the venture.

The company's core offering is a data protection platform designed to help organizations manage data sprawl and securely adopt AI. It serves businesses by automating the discovery, classification, and protection of sensitive data across cloud environments, SaaS applications, and on-premises repositories. The platform utilizes large language models (LLMs) to identify over 150 types of sensitive information, including PII, PCI, and PHI, with high accuracy, which helps to reduce the false positives common in traditional data security posture management (DSPM) tools. By providing context around data, Teleskope allows security, data, and engineering teams to focus on genuine vulnerabilities and streamline their operations.

Teleskope's business model is centered on its comprehensive data protection platform, which generates revenue through subscriptions. Key features include automated remediation, such as data redaction, masking, encryption, and the correction of overly permissive access. The platform also automates data subject rights requests (DSAR) to ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR and CCPA, a process that can reduce manual effort by up to 80%. It integrates directly into developer workflows and the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to prevent security issues from reaching production. The platform supports integrations with various data stores, including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive, in addition to cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud. Teleskope offers flexible deployment models, including single-tenant SaaS, managed, or self-hosted within a client's infrastructure.

Keywords: data security, data governance, data protection platform, DSPM, privacy compliance, automated remediation, data discovery, data classification, GDPR compliance, CCPA compliance, sensitive data, PII protection, data sprawl, AI security, cloud data security, automated data subject rights, data redaction, data masking, security automation, developer-friendly security