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Insider Threat for the Modern Enterprise

Winter 2025Founded 20243 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

About

Insider threats cost the average enterprise $17.4M per year and take up to 3 months to contain. Most of those threats (employees leaking IP, contractors staging data for exfil, accounts misusing AI tools like Copilot) get buried in thousands of noisy alerts from traditional security tools. Candor changes this by telling your security team exactly who to watch before they cause damage. Zero tuning, detection from day one, and it actually learns from analyst feedback.

From their website

as of Jun 7, 2026candor.security β†—
SaaS

Candor Security offers an insider threat platform for modern enterprises that identifies riskiest individuals and helps contain threats by integrating with existing security and IT tools. It emphasizes context-aware AI, rapid investigation, and automated containment actions without replacing current stacks.

Candor stitches data sources into a single context-rich view to surface riskiest individuals using a proprietary ranking algorithm. It provides a risk score and investigation graph, reduces mean time to investigation by 80%, and can automatically disable accounts or restrict access, while integrating with SOAR, IAM, and case management systems. Deployment is possible on-premise or cloud, connects to existing identity providers, SIEMs, and collaboration tools via API, with no agents to install and private, isolated inference infrastructure.

Who it’s for: Enterprises with mature security programs seeking to bolster insider threat defense and reduce investigation time, who want to augment existing SIEM/SOAR/IAM stacks without replacing them.

Features
  • Identify riskiest individuals via proprietary ranking
  • Contextual, holistic risk profiling across signals
  • Investigation graph with time-to-investigation reduction
  • Automated containment actions (disable accounts, restrict access)
  • Integrations with SIEM, SOAR, IAM, and case management
  • No agents needed; cloud or on-prem deployment

Parts of the site reference customer case studies coming soon, blog and careers pages; mentions of deployment options and integrations imply early traction and ongoing product expansion

Founders Β· 3

Adarsh Ambati
Adarsh AmbatiCEO/Co-Founder
Stanford

founder @ candor. we stop bad guys. Stanford c/o '25.

Ansh Gupta
Ansh GuptaCo-Founder

Co-Founder/CTO @ Candor Security (https://candor.security/)

Aditya Iyengar
Aditya IyengarFounder
UberStanford

Co-founder @ Candor. Stanford c/o '25. Prev SWE @ Flutterflow (W21), Uber, and NASA.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator Β· Feb 2025
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Formerly β€œPhysion Works”, β€œSophris”, β€œMirror”, β€œAnomaly”, β€œBastion”, β€œHaleum” Β· why startups rename β†’

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