Above Security raises $50M to redefine insider risk in the age of AI agents
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Aviv Nahum
Mar 23, 2026
Aviv Nahum
Mar 23, 2026
We could not be more excited to share Above Security with the world: the solution to insider risk for both humans and their agentic counterparts. Security teams aren't losing because they lack data, they're losing because their tools lack the context to help them understand it. Above is our answer to the mismatch between how security is practiced today and how work gets done: a preventive, operational approach that gives teams clarity and control without killing velocity. We have our joint vision, but each one of us has our own reasons as to why we started Above and why this launch matters to us.
My Israeli upbringing taught me to think about systems as living things: people, incentives, pressure, and weak points. Security stopped being a compliance checklist or a slide deck for me; it became an operational problem about trust. Who has access? Why do they have it? How does ordinary work become dangerous?
Years of talking to security leaders confirmed what I suspected: the most dangerous insider risk incidents rarely look dangerous. I saw this personally in one case and it really changed how I viewed the insider risk problem. The attackers never triggered a single alert: they studied a company's supply chain, learned vendor relationships, and mirrored internal communication patterns until they were indistinguishable from normal business. They understood the business better than the defenders did — and that asymmetry was everything.
We built Above to signals to give the defenders the same type of business intelligence the attackers have time to collect without adding on more work for already overworked blue teamers. We understand behavior in context, detect meaningful drift, and give teams the ability to act before normal work becomes an incident.
Traditional insider threat detection programs spend months on rules and policy configuration. We asked a different question: what if we stopped the incident from happening in the first place?
AI and machine learning make attackers faster. They also give defenders a chance to see patterns across fragmented events — if the tools are built right. we built Above to surface those signals to give the defenders the same type of business intelligence the attackers have time to collect without adding on more work for already overworked blue teamers. We understand behavior in context, detect meaningful drift, and give teams the ability to act before normal work becomes an incident.
Above is built to surface behavioral intelligence for defenders automatically and continuously, closing the gap that attackers have always exploited.
I spent years as the analyst stitching incident timelines from ten dashboards and a dozen spreadsheets. Endless alerts, reactive responses, burnt-out teams. I kept asking: how do we prevent this, not just document it? So I built the tool I always wanted.
The hardest part of building Above wasn't collecting data — security tools already do that. It was understanding what data means in business context. Consider two scenarios: an employee searches "remote desktop bypass" for legitimate IT troubleshooting, versus someone running the same search while simultaneously interviewing at competitors and bulk-downloading files. The query is identical. The risk is completely different. Above's AI investigators run continuous analysis across employee timelines, connecting scattered events into coherent narratives so teams see the story, not just the signal.
What I'm proudest of is our approach to real-time intervention. Rather than silent monitoring that only helps you after harm is done, Above intervenes in the moment: when someone tries to push sensitive data to an unsanctioned AI tool, we give them a pause and ask them to justify the action. We've seen teams change habits within weeks — not because employees were afraid, but because they finally understood the implications.
Early customers are already measuring the difference. Insider threat cases that previously required weeks of manual investigation now surface in hours, with full chain-of-custody documentation ready for HR and legal. One customer detected their first critical incident within 12 hours of deployment.
Security should give you clear answers and early warnings — not just a record of what went wrong.
Above is an AI-native insider risk management platform. Powered by specialized AI investigators, Above detects and prevents insider threats — human and agentic — without rules, policies, or manual configuration. Real-time coaching stops risky behavior in the moment. Automatically generated evidentiary timelines close cases faster.
