Native, the cloud security control plane for the enterprise, today announced significant enterprise momentum, growing its enterprise customer base more than sevenfold over the past year as Fortune 100 organizations increasingly adopt active cloud defense.
As AI agents, machine identities, and cloud services proliferate, visibility alone can no longer keep pace with the speed of infrastructure change. Enterprises are moving beyond reactive detection and building active defense directly into their cloud architecture.
“The industry spent the last decade getting good at finding risks. We now need to transition to making sure those problems never exist in the first place,” said Amit Megiddo, co-founder and CEO of Native. “The largest enterprises in the world have the most to lose from an AI agent gone wrong, and they’re the ones moving fastest to active defense. Cloud providers already ship the controls enterprises need. We turn their intent into enforcement across every cloud.”
To support increased demand, Native has hired engineers and architects from Paramount, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Cyera, Wiz, and Check Point Software, among other reputable brands, with plans to expand across engineering, go-to-market, and customer teams. Founded by the builders of Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub, Native has raised $42 million to date, including an $11 million seed round led by General Catalyst and YL Ventures and a $31 million Series A led by Ballistic Ventures.
Going Deeper Into the Enterprise
Native’s customers include some of the most recognized names in payments, media, semiconductors, and AI cloud infrastructure, alongside leaders in investment management, telecommunications, and healthcare. It’s a customer base that spans the most demanding corners of the enterprise, where a single misconfigured control plane puts regulated data, live infrastructure, and millions of end users at risk. Native’s platform now governs enterprises operating hundreds of thousands of cloud accounts across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI.
For these organizations, the appeal is enforcement. Native translates security intent expressed in plain language, such as “no path from the public internet to regulated data,” into provider-native controls that hold across every cloud. Teams define the architecture once, and Native enforces it everywhere, using each provider’s own security primitives rather than bolting on another layer to inspect and alert.
The Go-To Platform for Proactive AI Defense
As AI agents move into production, enterprises are finding that guardrails can’t live inside a non-deterministic system. The architecture has to define what an agent can and cannot do. Native’s AI Attack Protection solution installs active defenses up front, so the attack surface closes before attackers arrive, while Enable AI for Engineering lets teams set hard boundaries on what agents can reach regardless of the permissions they inherit. Native’s Blast Radius Containment keeps a single compromised identity from moving laterally across the estate.
“Customers don’t want another queue of alerts. They want confidence that the architecture they’ve designed is the architecture the cloud actually enforces,” Megiddo added. “That’s why the conversation is shifting from visibility to enforcement, and why we’re seeing the world’s largest enterprises embrace a fundamentally different operating model for cloud security.”
Because Native operationalizes provider-native controls rather than replacing them, it continues to deepen its relationships across the major cloud ecosystems. Native’s platform is available through the AWS Marketplace and Google Cloud Marketplace, with 6 partner integrations across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI, including availability through AWS Security Hub.
Native at Black Hat USA 2026
During Black Hat USA 2026, taking place August 1 – 6 in Las Vegas, Native will showcase its vision for active defense in the cloud at Booth 5338. The company will also preview new research on AI cloud architecture, including how enterprises can use provider-native controls to govern AI agents, inference boundaries, and multi-cloud environments through enforced architecture rather than reactive remediation. More information can be found here: https://native.security/events/bhus-2026-meet-us.
For more information, please visit native.security.
About Native
Native is the cloud security control plane for the multi-cloud enterprise. The platform translates security intent into enforceable, secure-by-design architecture that continuously adapts across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, using each provider’s own native security controls. Founded by the builders of Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub, Native is backed by Ballistic Ventures, General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures. Learn more at native.security.
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