# Virsec Systems

> Virsec Systems develops runtime security software for enterprise server workloads. Its Virsec Security Platform verifies trusted software components and constrains execution to protect modern and legacy applications against unauthorized code and exploit activity.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Founders:** Satya Gupta (Co-founder and CTO), Ray DeMeo (Co-founder), Dave Furneaux (Co-founder, founding investor and former CEO)
- **Products:** Virsec Security Platform (VSP), AppMap / Trusted Execution, OTTOGUARD.AI, Virsec Automated Protection Platform
- **Notable:** Announced a $100 million Series C in July 2021, bringing reported total funding at that time to $137 million., Won a CyberSecured 2020 Enterprise Security Award for VSP., Current company site reports more than 120 worldwide patents and testing against more than 200 government red-teamers; these are company claims.

## Products & services

- **Virsec Security Platform (VSP)** — Runtime workload protection spanning host application control, memory exploit protection and web protection for Windows and Linux environments.
- **AppMap / Trusted Execution** — Underlying application-mapping technology used to establish permitted execution and identify deviations.
- **OTTOGUARD.AI** — Launched by Virsec in April 2025 as patchless vulnerability mitigation; the current Virsec homepage describes it as a separate startup.
- **Virsec Automated Protection Platform** — Red Hat ecosystem solution using Ansible Automation Platform to automate workload-protection deployment and operations.

## Achievements

- Announced a $100 million Series C in July 2021, bringing reported total funding at that time to $137 million.
- Won a CyberSecured 2020 Enterprise Security Award for VSP.
- Current company site reports more than 120 worldwide patents and testing against more than 200 government red-teamers; these are company claims.

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Virsec announced OTTOGUARD.AI for patchless workload vulnerability mitigation.
- **2025-12** — VSP introduction documentation was updated and describes host control, application control policy and memory exploit protection.
- **2026-10** — Research observation: the live homepage describes OTTOGUARD.AI as a new startup and continues to market VSP. This is an observation date, not a dated spinout announcement.

## Links

- Website: https://virsec.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/virsec-systems/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/virsecsystems

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Last updated: 2026-10-15