# P0 Security

> P0 Security is a San Francisco enterprise-security company building an agentless authorization control plane for human users, workloads, service accounts, and AI agents. Its software discovers risky permissions, grants narrowly scoped access only when needed, removes that access automatically, and preserves an audit trail across cloud and hybrid production systems.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Shashwat Sehgal (Co-founder and CEO), Gergely Danyi (Co-founder and CTO), Nathan Brahms (Co-founder and VP Engineering)
- **Products:** P0 Cloud Access Governance, Just-in-Time Access, Continuous Privilege Lifecycle Governance, Privileged Access Control for AI Agents, P0 Runtime Access Platform
- **Notable:** Named a Top 10 finalist in the 2024 RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest., Included in Fortune's Cyber 60 ranking., Raised $20 million across seed and Series A rounds by September 2024.

## Products & services

- **P0 Cloud Access Governance** — Agentless discovery and governance for privileged permissions across human and non-human identities in cloud and hybrid production environments.
- **Just-in-Time Access** — Policy-driven, short-lived access requested through tools such as Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, or the CLI and revoked automatically when the approved window ends.
- **Continuous Privilege Lifecycle Governance** — Identity and entitlement discovery, risk assessment, guided remediation, credential rotation, and auditable least-privilege enforcement.
- **Privileged Access Control for AI Agents** — Early-access runtime controls for first-party agents, linking agent actions to the initiating human, applying policy before access, and recording sessions for audit.
- **P0 Runtime Access Platform** — A unified authorization control plane spanning users, workloads, service accounts, and agents across cloud infrastructure, data systems, code, and sensitive SaaS applications.

## Achievements

- Named a Top 10 finalist in the 2024 RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest.
- Included in Fortune's Cyber 60 ranking.
- Raised $20 million across seed and Series A rounds by September 2024.
- Reports a mean request-to-access time, including approval, of five minutes for just-in-time access.
- Maintains SOC 2 Type II compliance and reports annual independent penetration testing.
- Helped one AI-security customer remove standing production access for more than 90% of 150-plus engineers within one month.
- Helped Applied Intuition eliminate more than 50 weekly escalation tickets and reduce access approval from hours to minutes.
- Helped CNA govern more than 40,000 non-human identities across more than 1,000 GCP projects.

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Closed a $15 million Series A led by SYN Ventures, bringing total funding to $20 million.
- **2025-12** — Introduced early-access privileged-access controls for first-party AI agents on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex.
- **2026-03** — Announced a technology partnership with Zscaler to extend zero-trust access from connectivity into runtime authorization for private resources.
- **2026-07** — Expanded application coverage to services including Salesforce, Cloudflare, Grafana Cloud, and Datadog while using AI to accelerate connector development.
- **2026-09** — Published new guidance treating MCP servers as identity infrastructure and arguing for scoped, ephemeral credentials and runtime enforcement.

## Links

- Website: https://p0.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/p0-security/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/p0security
- GitHub: https://github.com/p0-security/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@p0-dev

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Last updated: 2026-09-28