Three year old startup StackRox is leading the way, as announced in their press release of July 18th describing their new platform for adaptive threat protection in container technologies, including Kubernetes and Docker. The new security platform is currently available, has $14 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital, and enterprise customers in government, finance, technology, and media sectors.
Aaref Hilaly, a StackRox board member and Sequoia Capital partner, spoke about the product in the press release, saying, “As companies adopt micro-services, security is a top concern. StackRox allows CISOs to put themselves on the leading edge of this trend, and be enablers for the business, rather than constraints. That’s a powerful value proposition for companies who need to be both agile and secure.”
StackRox was co-founded in 2014 by industry veterans Sameer Bhalotra (former Sr. Director for Cybersecurity at the White House) and Ali Golshan (co-founder and former CTO of Cyphort). StackRox allows security teams to defend against privilege escalation, data exfiltration, malicious lateral movement, and code injection, view containers in high resolution, and streamline existing security options in a single platform. StackRox partners include Red Hat, IBM, Google, Amazon, and Docker.
Business and IT decision-makers already use StackRox to consolidate several security capabilities, with web application firewalling (WAF), intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS), and endpoint detection and response (EDR) all available in the same program.
