Human behavior is security's biggest blind spot.
We've raised ~$3M in pre-seed funding from @BoweryCapital, @indievc, and angels from Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Cursor, Nvidia, and Okta to fix it. 🧵
🚨Employee Spotlight: Stephen Tortora, Founding Growth
A decade selling at Sisense, Airtable, & Orum. D1 lacrosse at Delaware. In his first 30 days here, he called 100+ security leaders to pressure-test how we solve human + agent risk.
He's building our GTM from zero. Welcome
🔩 Meet Huey Kolowich, Founding Engineer at Cimento.
Started as one of our first interns, fresh off @PalantirTech's FDSE program. We were lucky to keep him through two more semesters. Brought him on full-time before he finished his CS degree (ML + math) at BYU.
Now he's
New founding engineer at Cimento.
Alex Smith joins from Palo Alto Networks, where he was Senior Staff on the DLP and CASB team. Before that: Spotify, Rivian, and nearly four years building ad infrastructure at Jelli.
He knows the threat surface we're defending from the inside.
An intern and a CFO both click on a phishing sim. Most scores give them the same number.
The risk isn't the same.
New from our founding engineer, Huey Kolowich, on why risk scores need two halves and how we built ours.
New engineer at @cimentoai .
Clayton Crockett → Founding Engineer.
Early Jasper built an AI infrastructure on GPT-3 and GPT-4. Engineering lead at Podium and Divvy before that. Self-taught. Thinks differently.
He was #1 on our list. Glad he's on this side now.
Model defenses for AI agents keep breaking.
Adaptive attacks optimize specifically to defeat whatever defense is in front of them. Stacking more models doesn't fix it — they just become brittle.
The answer is system-level controls. Scope permissions. Monitor behavior. Constrain
Big milestone for Cimento 🧵
SACR just dropped their first-ever coverage of the Human Risk Management category — and we're featured as an emerging connective layer in the new stack.
The thesis: HRM is being rewritten.
Annual training + click rates aren't enough when AI can
Meet Sam Bostick, one of our founding engineers at @cimentoai
Founding engineer at Vectrix → acquired by @Cloudflare → Systems Engineer on the CASB team → now building at Cimento.
Sam's been at the frontier of cloud security before it was cool, and he's bringing that same
And humans are only half the picture.
AI agents now operate inside enterprises with access to real tools, real data, and real authority — yet most organizations have zero visibility into how they behave under manipulation.
Cimento is the first platform built to test, score, and