Sotero is a data security company focused on protecting sensitive structured and unstructured data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Its portfolio centers on the Sotero Data Security Platform, which brings together data security posture management, data detection and response, data-in-use encryption, cloud data security, and ransomware prevention within a single operating model.
Sotero positions its platform around securing the data itself across the full lifecycle rather than relying only on perimeter, endpoint, or storage controls. Its approach combines AI-assisted discovery and classification, policy-based access controls, auditing, and real-time threat detection to help organizations reduce exposure, support compliance, and limit the impact of insider threats, malicious access, and ransomware activity.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Sotero delivers high-level capabilities for data discovery and classification, risk analysis, privilege enforcement, continuous monitoring, auditability, and active threat prevention. Its platform is designed to protect both structured and unstructured data, apply persistent protection to sensitive fields, and support governance requirements across distributed data estates.
The platform integrates with existing enterprise security and identity infrastructure rather than requiring wholesale replacement. Verified capabilities include integration with directory services and identity providers for role-based access control, forwarding logs and telemetry to SIEM platforms, compatibility with key management tooling, API-based connectivity, and deployment options spanning SaaS, on-premises, cross-cloud, and hybrid environments. Sotero also emphasizes agentless deployment and operation without application code changes.
Products and Services
- Sotero Data Security Platform: Sotero’s flagship unified platform for discovering, classifying, protecting, monitoring, and governing sensitive data across structured and unstructured environments, with built-in threat detection and response capabilities.
- Data Security Posture Management (DSPM): A data-centric posture management capability that uses AI-assisted discovery, classification, and risk analysis to identify sensitive data, map exposure, and strengthen controls across databases, file stores, and applications.
- Data Detection and Response (DDR): A real-time detection and response capability that monitors data environments for anomalous or malicious activity and helps stop threats before they spread or lead to data loss.
- Sotero Data-In-Use Encryption: Sotero’s patented queryable encryption technology that keeps sensitive data protected while it is in use, in transit, and at rest, without requiring application code changes.
- Cloud Data Security: A cloud-focused data protection offering for securing sensitive data in cloud applications and data stores with policy-based access controls, encryption, and support for hybrid operating models.
- Ransomware Prevention: A ransomware defense capability that combines behavior-based and signature-based analytics, machine learning, automated blocking, and isolation to reduce the impact of ransomware and related malware attacks.
Target Customers
Sotero targets organizations that collect, process, use, or share sensitive data and need stronger control over how that data is accessed across modern environments. Its offerings are suited to companies managing regulated or high-value information such as PII, PHI, financial records, research data, and other confidential business data.
Evidence on Sotero’s website points to mid-market and enterprise buyers, especially those operating across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure. Referenced industries and use cases include financial services, banking, pharmaceutical, healthcare, SaaS, and other data-intensive organizations that need to support compliance, partner collaboration, and ransomware resilience without disrupting application workflows.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog: Sotero has a verified presence in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog for the Sotero Data Security Platform as a certified containerized application, including certified components for Red Hat OpenShift deployments.
Key People
- Purandar Das: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
- Shanthi Boppana: Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
- Bob Davoli: Chairman of the Board
- Bruce Clarke: Board Member
- Eric Schnadig: Independent Board Member
- Michaelene Koskela: Sales & Business
- Aboo Thanikkal: Product Development
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
- Employees: 15-22
- Annual Revenue: $2M-$5M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2026 Gartner Peer Insights: Sotero has 1 product in the Data Loss Prevention market. 2026 Gartner Peer Insights: Sotero has 1 product in the Tokenization Platform market.
