Wabbi

Wabbi operates as a continuous security platform, focusing on integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for enterprise clients. Founded in 2018 by Brittany Greenfield, the company was established to address the challenge of making security scalable within modern development pipelines. Greenfield, who serves as CEO, drew upon her career in identifying new market opportunities for enterprise software at companies like NetSuite, Cisco, and Cybereason. Her background includes a bachelor's degree from Duke University and an MBA from MIT Sloan, experiences that shaped her approach to modernizing application security deployment. The company's name is derived from the Japanese concept of "wabi-sabi," reflecting a philosophy of accepting imperfection as a step toward improvement, which Wabbi applies to managing risk in imperfect code.

The company's core business revolves around its DevSecOps platform, which automates and orchestrates application security programs. It targets enterprise development teams, including those in Fortune 1000 organizations and the public sector, such as the U.S. Air Force, with which it was awarded a contract. The business model is designed to bridge the gap between development and security teams, shifting security from a reactive bottleneck to a proactive, integrated process. Wabbi's platform functions as a centralized control point for managing the entire application security program.

Wabbi's platform provides end-to-end management of application security by translating security policies into automated and orchestrated workflows within existing development environments. Key features include Application Security Orchestration and Correlation (ASOC), risk-based vulnerability management, and Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). The system automates tasks from triggering scans based on SDLC events to consolidating and prioritizing vulnerabilities based on application-specific risk. This allows development teams to manage security within their daily workflows without needing to become cybersecurity experts, while providing security teams with centralized governance and visibility. By delivering secure coding information directly to developers, the platform helps ensure compliance and improves the quality of secure code without sacrificing development speed. A significant milestone was achieved in November 2021, when Wabbi raised over $2 million in a seed funding round led by Mendoza Ventures and including participation from Cisco Investments to scale its team and meet growing customer demand.

Keywords: Application Security Posture Management, DevSecOps, continuous security, vulnerability management, security orchestration, software development lifecycle, code security, automated governance, risk-based vulnerability management, policy management, ASOC, ASPM, application security program, security automation, developer security, secure coding, enterprise security, DevOps security, SDLC integration, security compliance