For any company that uses software, there is often a difficult balance between patching systems as quickly as possible to prevent cyber-attacks, while ensuring that updates do not disrupt the way those systems work.
That’s where startup CyDeploy wants to help.
The company’s founder, Tina Williams-Koroma, explained to TechCrunch that the idea behind CyDeploy is to use machine learning to observe and record the most important systems a company is running, create a copy of them, and let the company using CyDeploy run tests on what it called a “digital twin” before deploying them. develop in real live systems.
“We capture how users use applications and systems on a regular daily basis,” said Williams-Koroma, who explained that CyDeploy can capture and label what’s happening on a computer screen, and machine learning comes in to “learn to interpret and label automatically.”
And, to make sure there are no illusions, there’s still one human in the loop, a customer’s system administrator, who, as he put it, “has the expertise to know what they’re looking at or what they’re expecting” and checks that the machine learning tag is correct.
Williams-Koroma spoke to TechCrunch ahead of the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference, where CyDeploy is a Top 20 finalist in the Startup Battlefield.
The advantage CyDeploy provides is that it can help write test scripts faster, he said.
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“You deploy it in your digital twin environment, you have the sysadmins run these functional test scripts that reflect normal day-to-day uses,” Williams-Koroma said. “And then they can see from there what the issues might be.”
The company’s customers can choose to use CyDeploy’s large-language model running in the company’s environment to prevent proprietary data from exiting its servers, or use OpenAI’s model, so the information will exit the company’s systems or cloud.
Williams-Koroma said that for most customers, the systems they would want to use CyDeploy on would be servers and critical machines, rather than user workstations.Level 1 applications where changes need to be made quickly for security reasons, but not too quickly for operational reasons.”
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