CyberUpgrade

2025 starts with a big partnership! 🎉 📢 CyberUpgrade and BD Emerson are teaming up to boost our clients' posture in the eyes of SOC2, DORA, NIS2, and other cybersec frameworks. What this partnership means: ➡️ Our platform automates compliance tasks, eliminating 95% of manual effort. ➡️ BD Emerson's expertise delivers tailored guidance to tackle even the toughest regulatory requirements. ➡️ Together, we're helping businesses move from reactive compliance to proactive security, turning regulations into an operational advantage. We're excited to partner with BD Emerson to create a safer, more resilient digital environment for European businesses!

🟢 looking_for_ciso = True 🔵 need_compliance = True if looking_for_ciso and need_compliance:   🔥 print("CyberUpgrade!") The NIS2 Directive makes it clear – meeting technical requirements IS NOT enough. But for many organizations, the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals, especially CISOs, makes this a significant challenge. To make things easier – there's CyberUpgrade. We're a team of CISOs building a platform that not only provides the strategic guidance businesses need to align with NIS2 requirements but also builds a proactive approach to cybersecurity with any organization. So how is your organization tackling the CISO requirement? Let’s talk. 💬

Welcome to the team, Vytautas Minelga! 🎉 We’re thrilled to have Vytautas join CyberUpgrade as our new QA Engineer! His skills and dedication will be key as we continue to enhance and perfect our platform, ensuring it meets the highest standards for our clients. CyberUpgrade is growing fast, and with Vytautas on board, we’re gearing up to enter the new year stronger and bigger than ever! 🚀🔒

Big welcome to our new team member, Dominykas Dimavičius 🙌 We’re excited to have Dominykas on board as our Growth Manager at CyberUpgrade. With his expertise and drive, Dominykas will play an important role in scaling our mission to help businesses go beyond paper compliance and achieve real cybersecurity. 🎉

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Our CEO, Aurimas Bakas, will be speaking at FIRSTPICK DAY – the must-attend event for trailblazers, investors, and innovators shaping the Baltic startup ecosystem! 📅 When: December 5th 📍 Where: Dūmų fabrikas, Vilnius Aurimas will be featured in the 10 MINS ON CYBER session, sharing key insights into the evolving cybersecurity landscape. We’re excited to be part of this event and can’t wait to connect with the ecosystem’s brightest minds! #FIRSTPICKDAY #CyberSecurity #Innovation #Startups #Baltics #Networking

We’re excited to announce that our CEO, Aurimas Bakas, has been invited to speak at the exclusive Rud Pedersen Group's 2024 Strategic Conference on November 28th, alongside Zydrunas Gaudiesius, a partner at Fabula Rud Pedersen Group 💫 💡 During his session, Aurimas will underscore the critical role of compliance in today’s business environment. He will share his entrepreneurial journey focused on enhancing compliance readiness for businesses of all sizes and showcase how innovative technologies like CyberUpgrade effective regulatory adherence. This presentation highlights our dedication to helping organizations navigate the complexities of compliance.🚀

I enjoy building a business. Brick by brick, stone by stone. 🧱 Earlier this year, we secured a $650K investment. Yesterday, CyberUpgrade announced (https://bit.ly/3UNjr15) an additional $2.5M round, marking a major step forward in our mission 🚀 🌊 Looking back, I’m reminded of a hot day by the Mediterranean Sea with friends and former colleagues from Paysolut. During a fun afternoon by the water, Andrius Minkevičius shared an idea – a vision for bridging the gap between on-paper compliance and real operational security. 📸 Funnily enough, I even have a photo from that day—a moment frozen in time that marked the beginning of an incredible journey 👇 Honestly, at that moment, I didn’t fully grasp it. We debated, discussed, and I wondered how this idea could transform into a valuable business. But Andrius was relentless. As a true mastermind of technology 💻, he had the spark ⚡ and a unique approach to make cybersecurity both proactive and truly operational. 🔍 With each discussion later that year, that vision sharpened. Our co-founding partners Nojus Antanas Bendoraitis and Algirdas Stasiunaitis brought fresh ideas and complementary skills. Iteration by iteration, we tested Andrius’s concept with real customers, adapting and refining until we saw its full potential. 👥 Soon, a team of seasoned cybersecurity veterans - Zbignev Zalevskij, Aleksandr Rus, and Dainius Aleksonis - joined us, adding a practical edge and ensuring our technology aligned with real-world security demands. Shoutout to Gytis Labašauskas and Raminta Krūminytė for their invaluable contributions as we learnt how to manage the process, communicate value and deliver our product! ⚙️ Today, our AI-powered Copilot enables CTOs to offload 95% of ICT security and compliance tasks, focusing on actual security over mere checkboxes ✅. As regulatory pressures mount and the cybersecurity talent gap grows, we're not just adding more hands – we’re scaling technology itself to help companies achieve a Fortune 500 level of security, regardless of team size. 💸 This recent funding fuels our mission to make accessible, AI-driven cybersecurity available to businesses of all sizes. 🙏 A heartfelt thanks to our incredible investors – Gytenis Galkis Juha Ruohonen Audrius Milukas Jakob Storå (Superhero Capital), Gerri Kodres Kaspar Hanni Riivo Anton (Specialist VC), Andra Bagdonaite Jone Vaituleviciute Dmitrij Sosunov Marijus Andrijauskas (FIRSTPICK VC), Justinas Pasys (NGL Ventures), and visionary angels Marios S. Kalochoritis, Sergei Anikin, Kestas Sliuzas and Ernestas Petkevicius. Your support brings us one step closer to a safer digital world 🌐. Here’s to the journey ahead 🥂 and people that make it possible! 🌟

Exciting news! Cyber Upgrade has secured €2.5 million in seed funding to transform the way cybersecurity is done in SMEs and beyond. 🎉 Backed by Superhero Capital, Specialist VC, NGL Ventures, and angel investors Marios S. Kalochoritis and Sergei Anikin, this investment will empower us to push the boundaries of what an AI-driven cybersecurity copilot can achieve. 🚀 With new EU cyber regulations tightening, SMEs face stricter requirements and increased penalties for non-compliance. Most small to medium-sized businesses lack the in-house cybersecurity resources to keep up, making a tool like CyberUpgrade essential for true, robust security. Thank you to our investors and all who support our mission! We’re excited to grow and provide even more organizations with the cybersecurity support they need to stay secure in an evolving digital landscape. 

In 2023, 70% of 138 actively exploited vulnerabilities were zero-days, as reported by Google Mandiant. Even more alarming is the dramatic reduction in the time-to-exploit (TTE). In 2018, security teams had a buffer of 63 days to respond to vulnerabilities. This year? Just five days. Cybercriminals are moving faster and targeting zero-day flaws with pinpoint accuracy. Why the shift? Organizations have become better at blocking phishing and credential theft, pushing attackers to adapt with sophisticated strikes on software vulnerabilities. What does this mean for you? Your security response needs to be more agile and proactive than ever. The era of 30-day patching cycles is over. Quick response teams, rapid signal detection, and strong communication between engineering and security are critical to defense. Actionable steps: ➡ Implement seamless patch management and proactive threat hunting. ➡ Maintain a dedicated zero-day response team. ➡ Ensure continuous security awareness training for all staff. 💡 Remember, attackers often prepare for months, if not years, before launching a zero-day exploit. Your defense must be strategic and swift, ready to respond within days, not weeks. Read more 👇