Upwind unveils cloud security solution with Nyx integration

Upwind has made significant strides by fully integrating Nyx into its platform, following their acquisition settled in April 2025. This strategic merger marks a pivotal milestone, enhancing Upwind’s mission to consolidate cloud infrastructure with application security in a unique, unified manner.

With Nyx’s cutting-edge function-level runtime visibility now embedded, Upwind customers benefit from unprecedented depth in threat detection and vulnerability prioritisation—effectively extending from infrastructure to application layers.

Through this integration, Upwind becomes the pioneer in offering a complete Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR) platform. It provides a single runtime-native solution enveloping process behaviour, network activity, API usage, and application function execution, making it the only CNAPP with integrated runtime protection at the application layer.

“We acquired Nyx because we believe that runtime is where the real battle for cloud security is happening,” said Amiram Shachar, CEO and co-founder of Upwind. “And now that it’s fully integrated, we’re delivering a single platform that’s purpose-built to observe, understand, and stop attacks across cloud infrastructure and applications in production in real time.”

Observing the rapid evolution of cloud threats, Upwind stands uniquely poised to counteract with innovative protection strategies. While traditional techniques centre on scanning and posture management, Upwind’s real-time focus, grounded in live runtime telemetry, offers a substantive edge.

Key Capabilities Delivered

• Function-aware vulnerability prioritisation: By identifying if vulnerable functions are executed at runtime, more than 60% of false-positive alerts can be suppressed, reducing developer alert fatigue and enhancing triage accuracy.
• Application-layer threat detection: with activity-based anomaly detection and runtime forensics integrated into existing baselines, Upwind enhances its real-time application-level threat insights.

These advancements provide a nuanced understanding of real risk, accelerate incident responses, and foster better coordination among AppSec, DevOps, and cloud security teams.

This integration positions Upwind at the forefront of the CNAPP landscape, setting new standards in application-layer defence in a rapidly expanding market. Their innovative CADR offers complete runtime-focused Application Detection and Response (ADR), surpassing traditional shift-left code scanning approaches.

Amiram Shachar emphasised the importance of “live, in-line security,” stressing that Upwind, powered by Nyx, now delivers real-time signal, context, and action from infrastructure to process levels, without compromising efficiencies.

As traditional security measures become less effective against sophisticated attackers, runtime visibility is crucial. Understanding every process and connection in real time is pivotal to pre-empting potential damage.

Upwind's enhanced runtime-centric approach prompts organisations to:

• Uncover threats unseen by static scanners
• Respond proactively to incidents with complete context
• Thwart exploitation in real time

Looking forward, Upwind aims to broaden its scope into Data Security and AI Security, committing to protecting an evolving array of cloud-native workloads through strategic growth and partnerships.