Living Security

Living Security is an Austin, Texas-based security company built around the idea that security-awareness programs should be driven by measured human risk rather than blanket, once-a-year training. Its Unify platform ingests signals from an organization’s existing security stack — phishing simulation results, endpoint and email security alerts, identity and access data — and turns them into a per-employee human risk score, which is then used to target training, nudges, and interventions at the highest-risk individuals and departments rather than applying the same generic module to everyone.

Founded in 2017, Living Security occupies the “human risk management” category that has emerged as a more data-driven evolution of the older security-awareness-training market (KnowBe4, Proofpoint’s legacy Wombat business). Its pitch to CISOs is a shift from compliance-driven training completion metrics to risk-reduction metrics that can be tied back to actual security incidents and reported to the board.

The company raised a $14 million Series B in 2021 led by Updata Partners, with participation from Silverton Partners, Active Capital, Rain Capital, and SaaS Venture Partners, bringing total disclosed funding to roughly $23 million. Its publicly named customer list includes large enterprises such as CVS Health, MassMutual, JPMorgan, Target, Verizon, Mastercard, and Biogen, which is a meaningful independent signal given these are named, verifiable logos rather than anonymized case studies.

Living Security competes against both legacy training vendors retrofitting risk scoring onto their platforms and a newer wave of human-risk-management startups (e.g., CultureAI, Hoxhunt); its differentiation is depth of integration with existing security tooling to compute risk scores from real telemetry rather than survey or training-completion data alone.