Reach Security, the AI-powered assistant for operationalizing security controls across the enterprise turning intent into enforcement and helping organizations fix what matters across SaaS and on-prem environments, today announced a $10 million strategic investment from M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and existing investors including Artisanal Ventures. The investment highlights M12’s belief in domain-specific AI as a transformative force in cybersecurity and underscores Reach’s leadership in enabling AI-powered exposure management.
As part of the announcement, Reach introduced ConfigIQ Drift™, a virtual assistant that allows security teams to define and enforce configuration drift detection without the need for deep configuration expertise or code skills. The company also previewed its upcoming Asset Intelligence capability, which will bring full-context visibility across identities, devices, and workloads to further enhance prioritization and remediation workflows.
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Why M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund Invested
M12’s investment reflects growing momentum in the exposure management category, with a focus on how virtual security assistants can drive adoption of security capabilities and automation in drift detection, policy enforcement, and remediation. M12 identified Reach’s unique combination of domain-specific language models (DSLM), operational automation, and real-world traction as key differentiators.
“Reach is redefining what actionable exposure management looks like,” said Todd Graham, Managing Partner at M12. “Their AI-powered assistant and extensible platform align directly with the needs of enterprise customers adopting Zero Trust, navigating compliance frameworks like CMMC, and helping customers migrate to or even activate underused capabilities in Microsoft 365 E5.”
Introducing ConfigIQ Drift™: A Virtual Assistant for Security Configuration
Reach launched its first drift capability three months ago. Today’s release of ConfigIQ Drift™ expands that foundation with a capability enabling customers to write their own drift detection rules. This makes it easy to define a baseline or “gold image” of intended configurations specifying exactly what to monitor for drift. For the first time, customers can now detect deviations across both SaaS and on-prem security products from a single, centralized location.
“Security teams aren’t just overwhelmed, they’re under-leveraged,” said Garrett Hamilton, CEO and Co-founder of Reach Security. “This partnership with M12 validates our belief that the next generation of cyber defense will be AI-powered, assistant-driven, plus deeply operational and focused on creating leverage for companies and their security tools. We’re building the infrastructure for that future today.”
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