# Virsec

> Virsec Systems develops the Virsec Security Platform, which maps trusted software components and enforces expected behavior inside server workloads at runtime. It serves organizations protecting critical modern and legacy applications, especially when patching cannot happen immediately.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Founders:** Satya Gupta (Co-founder and CTO), Ray DeMeo (Co-founder), Atiq Raza (Co-founder and former CEO), Dave Furneaux (Founding investor and later CEO; also described as co-founder in a 2021 profile)
- **Products:** Virsec Security Platform (VSP), Virsec Map and Virsec Enforce, Deterministic Protection Platform (DPP), OTTOGUARD.AI
- **Notable:** Announced a $100 million Series C in July 2021, bringing reported funding then to $137 million., Virsec says its technology was tested against more than 200 government red-teamers., Virsec reported more than 50 patents in 2021; its current company page says over 120 worldwide patents.

## Products & services

- **Virsec Security Platform (VSP)** — Current workload security platform for discovery, integrity verification, application control, and runtime enforcement.
- **Virsec Map and Virsec Enforce** — Map defines approved executable components; Enforce stops execution that deviates from the trusted baseline.
- **Deterministic Protection Platform (DPP)** — Earlier platform branding for application-aware runtime workload protection.
- **OTTOGUARD.AI** — AI-branded patchless mitigation offering introduced in 2025; Virsec later announced a plan for it to become a separate startup.

## Achievements

- Announced a $100 million Series C in July 2021, bringing reported funding then to $137 million.
- Virsec says its technology was tested against more than 200 government red-teamers.
- Virsec reported more than 50 patents in 2021; its current company page says over 120 worldwide patents.
- Listed among TAG Cyber distinguished vendors in 2021.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Virsec posted that OTTOGUARD.AI is moving toward a separate startup; transaction terms were not disclosed.
- **2025-04** — Virsec introduced OTTOGUARD.AI as a patchless mitigation offering.
- **2024** — Virsec published updated material on protecting legacy workloads with VSP.

## Links

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

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Last updated: 2026-09-29