Why Ligurian
Named after the bees of Kangaroo Island
In 1885, South Australia passed a law making Kangaroo Island a sanctuary for Ligurian bees, brought from the Liguria region of Italy. The island is believed to hold the last pure population of them anywhere in the world.
Ligurian bees are known for being gentle and hard-working. Like all honeybees, a forager that finds something worth having flies home and performs a waggle dance. The angle of the dance tells the hive which way to go, and its length tells them how far.
That's the job we want this product to do. Go out, find what matters, come back and say exactly where it is, clearly enough that someone can act on it. Calmly, without stinging anyone.
Why now
AI moved the data
Staff paste contracts into chat tools, and assistants can read whatever old sharing links allow. Data now goes places nobody planned for.
The bar is rising
Privacy reform and customer contracts increasingly expect a business to know what personal information it holds and where.
Mid-market was left out
Data security tools were priced and built for enterprises with E5 licences and dedicated teams. Most businesses rely on an MSP instead.
What we believe
- A security product shouldn't become the biggest copy of your sensitive data.
- Australian identifiers deserve proper validation, not a nine-digit regex.
- People handle data better when they're coached at the right moment than when they're simply blocked.
- Claims should be specific, and limits should be stated plainly.
- The MSP is the right place to deliver this, so the product should be built around how MSPs work.
Be first in the hive
We're building Ligurian with a small group of MSPs.