CyDeploy wants to create a replica of a company’s system to help it test updates before pushing them out — catch it at Disrupt 2025

For any company that uses software, there’s a difficult balance between patching systems as quickly as possible to prevent cyberattacks while also ensuring that updates don’t break how those systems work.

That’s where the startup is CyDeploy wants to help

The company’s founder, Tina Williams-Koroma, explained to TechCrunch that CyDeploy’s idea is to use machine learning to monitor and record the most critical systems a company runs, build a replica of them, and use CyDeploy to test them as “digital twins” before the company deploys them to real live systems.

“We record how users are using applications and systems on a daily basis,” said Williams-Koroma, who explained that CyDeploy can record and label what happens on a computer screen, and machine learning comes in to “learn to interpret and automatically label.”

And, to make sure there are no hallucinations, there’s still a human in the loop, a customer’s system administrator, who, as he puts it, “has the skills to know what they’re seeing or expecting” and checks that the machine learning labeling is correct.

Williams-Koroma previously spoke to TechCrunch TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference, where CyDeploy is a Top 20 finalist Startup battlefield.

The advantage of CyDeploy is that it can help write test scripts more quickly, he said.

“You deploy it in your digital twin environment, have sysadmins run these functional test scripts that reflect normal day-to-day usage,” Williams-Koroma said. “And then they can see from there what the problems might be.”

Company customers can use CyDeploy’s large-scale language model that runs within the company’s environment so that proprietary data does not leave its servers, or use OpenAI’s model, in which case the data moves outside the company’s systems or the cloud.

For most customers, the systems they want to use CyDeploy on will be servers and critical machines rather than users’ workstations, says Williams-Koroma.Level 1 application Where changes need to be made quickly for security reasons, but not too quickly for operational reasons.”

If you’d like to learn more about CyDeploy — while also checking out dozens of other companies, listening to their pitches and listening to guest speakers on four different stages — join us at Disrupt October 27 to 29 in San Francisco. Learn more here.