Security starts with design

“The team at Dawnguard consists of visionary and seasoned cyber professionals. Dawnguard is a game changer that is much needed by the market that will allow AI/ML driven focus on secure by design as opposed to just the old‘clean up the legacy ‘ and ‘whack a mole’ security management, which is suffering from resource scarcity and the perspective of losing, given the rise of Malicious AI.”

“Dawnguard isn’t just building tech — they’re rewriting the DNA of cybersecurity. In a world addicted to patching symptoms, they’ve chosen to re-engineer the root. That’s not just bold — it’s necessary.”

“The founders of Dawnguard are those rare people who deeply understand both the technical complexity and the long-term strategic importance of building security into the foundation of modern systems. What they’re doing at Dawnguard isn’t just a product — it’s a rethink of how we build for trust at scale. I’m genuinely excited to see this vision come to life.”

“Kim and Mahdi are highly experienced and driven professionals who have identified a blind spot in modern IT: the lack of integrated, design-phase security. By using AI/ML to evaluate architectures, detect weaknesses early, and recommend improvements, Dawnguard tackles a critical gap in today’s IT practices. The fact that Dawnguard has attracted such talented professionals around this mission speaks volumes. I’m genuinely excited to see Dawnguard reshape how we build cloud secure systems.”

“Most security architecture is still stuck in the dark ages, with manual reviews, scattered docs, and nothing that actually enforces design intent. Dawnguard flips that on its head. It validates your architecture up front, generates production-ready IaC, and keeps your posture aligned long after deployment. It’s real security by design — not a paper exercise, not an afterthought, and definitely not business as usual.”

“Dawnguard is a game changer that enables true secure by design for cloud and enables companies to embed security natively in their cloud architectures. This is truly moving the needle from reactive to proactive cyber resilience!”

“What I find most exciting about Dawnguard is not only that it will enhance security by design within cloud architecture, it’s the prospect of levelling the playing field by allowing organizations without the necessary resources, knowledge and expertise to also join the party. “

“Experienced CISOs and CTOs know that once Security and IT design flaws reach production, they create costly overhead. Dawnguard prevents this by stopping risks early in development. Its breakthrough in shifting left with infrastructure as code embeds safeguards early, cutting vulnerabilities and design flaws.”

“Dawnguard is changing how we think about cloud security by starting where it matters most: the design phase. While others fix issues after the fact, Dawnguard uses AI to build security into your architecture from day one. It validates your designs, generates production-ready infrastructure as code (IaC), and keeps you secure long after deployment. This isn’t security as usual, it’s security re-engineered.”

"Hundreds of security tools overwhelm CISOs with promises of better detection, yet few tackle the root issue: design flaws in code that AI-driven threats exploit. As attacks grow smarter, defences must shift left — embedding resilience at the codebase. We are excited to back Dawnguard, who build protection by design, not patch by necessity."