Our Story
Our journey began with a simple idea: security fixes shouldn't be a never-ending burden—so we created a platform to change that.
Our paths first converged nearly a decade ago when we were all deep in the world of cybersecurity. Zac and Derek first met while they were both at Rapid7, working on a joint project tackling a product integration marketplace. Alli met Derek at Censys, where they worked together on Attack Surface Management. Our paths diverged, but eventually rejoined. Over the spring and summer of 2022, Zac, Derek, and Alli started talking about addressing the frustration with making cybersecurity products work together. Our frustration with the broader problem soon turned into obsession with a more specific one that each of us have encountered: Fixing computer security issues is always a massive, costly chore. So, by July 2022, each of us had made a plunge to leave our comfortable careers, and furl was formed.
We've experienced firsthand both the consumer and vendor sides of remediation—whether at Rapid7, Automox, or Censys, or our time in IT roles at public sector organizations. Despite our diverse expertise, we all encountered the same truth: the traditional way of fixing security issues was simply too complex and expensive to scale. Every day, new security issues emerge while the tools to address them remain disjointed and burdensome. So we asked ourselves, “What if we could make remediation efforts massively more cost effective while accelerating the number of fixes that get deployed?”
To answer that question, we set out to build an application that:
- Centralizes, streamlines, and measures remediation effort across the organization in one place.
- Provides a first-of-its-kind ability to autonomously remediate by generating and deploying fix programs, with humans in the loop.
- Maximizes the return on investment (ROI) of existing patching tools for remediation use cases.
Our vision for the future is bold and clear: by coupling a small module installed on every computer with our centralized AI brain, we enable systems to self-repair with and without human intervention—creating self-healing networks that neutralize threats automatically.
With technology adoption accelerating and security vulnerabilities multiplying rapidly, the current patchwork approach is unsustainable. At the current rate, businesses will drown in the expenses of maintenance and the fallout from breaches. That's why we champion a new era in cybersecurity—one that liberates IT teams from the costly, unsustainable manual effort that scales directly with the number of issues and the personnel required, a burden that most organizations simply cannot afford.
