Starting any new venture always involves a mix of excitement and trepidation, especially the latter when you’re trying to build something brand new, using rapidly evolving technology like AI.

But, I’m a firm believer that if you start with a real customer problem - in our case, the challenge teams face when trying to build secure digital products at speed, usually without security resources - then you’ll get there in the end, you’ll make something of value, and the rollercoaster of excitement and trepidation will all be worth it.

And that has certainly been the case with Perceptive. Without wishing to rehash our manifesto (you can read it here if you wish), we started Perceptive because we knew that building secure digital products was both difficult and important.

I’ve personally spent nearly twenty years designing and building a range of digital products, the last ten years of which have been in and around the cyber security industry, leading teams who want to build something great, but often haven’t had the knowledge, experience, time or support to truly build a product they could say was secure from day one.

Now, we’re obviously not the first people to try and help teams build secure products, but we are leading the charge when it comes to using automated security assessments (powered by the best available AI) much earlier in a secure software development lifecycle, when teams are still defining what it is they’re going to build. We believe in the idea of secure by design, and we think we’ve built an amazing product that’ll help teams achieve exactly that.

Our vision as a company is to put security insights in the hands of builders - empowering those who need it most, just when they need it, to build more secure digital products. We’re delighted to finally begin sharing our approach to tackling this challenge with the world.

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