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Matano is an open source security lake platform (SIEM alternative) for AWS

Co-Founder: Samrose Ahmed

Co-Founder: Shaeq Ahmed

Investors: Y Combinator (W23)

History: Just Launched

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Samrose Ahmed and Shaeq Ahmed, the founders of Matano, have announced the launch of their new security solution. Matano is a high-scale, low-cost alternative to traditional security information and event management (SIEM) tools such as Splunk, and is designed specifically for use on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

One of the main problems with traditional SIEM tools is that they do not scale well and can be difficult and expensive to manage, especially for security teams using cloud-based systems. The sheer volume of data that needs to be collected and analyzed from networks, software as a service (SaaS) systems, and cloud environments can reach 100TB or more, forcing teams to either leave some data unprocessed or build their own data lakes to analyze it cost-effectively.

Matano addresses these issues by deploying a security data lake directly in your AWS account. This data lake allows you to ingest and store vast amounts of security and log data from various sources, and query it using open Apache Iceberg tables that can be accessed by different tools such as AWS Athena and Snowflake. The data is normalized into a structured format, making it easier to correlate across sources and build accurate alerts that do not generate false positives.

In addition to its scalability and ease of use, Matano is fully serverless and built using technologies such as Lambda, S3, and SQS, making it a zero-ops solution that can scale horizontally without limits. It is also built using Rust for fast performance, and is licensed as Apache 2.0, ensuring that users have full ownership of their security data. With its detection-as-code feature, which allows users to implement real-time alerting using Python and manage rules using Git, Matano offers a flexible and efficient solution for managing security data at scale.

If you are a security team that is interested in using Matano, you can contact the founders via email at founders@matano.dev. You can also try out the Matano project on GitHub at https://github.com/matanolabs/matano and consider starring the project to show your support. Additionally, you can join the Matano Discord community for updates and discussions.