StackRox, a provider of security for containerised cloud-native applications, has secured $25m in Series B funding.
The funding round is being led by Redpoint Ventures and includes follow-on investments from Sequoia Capital and Amplify Partners.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, StackRox claims to deliver the industry’s only solution that offers continuous detection for applications running on container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Its solution is designed to help enterprises running containerised applications with governance, detection, and response to security threats. StackRox enables security teams to apply and manage policies, and the software automatically detects and correlate threat behaviour. By monitoring events over time, the software applies its Adversarial Intent Model to “connect the dots,” alert IT organisations of potential threats across the attack life cycle, and take action to stop and contain attacks.
StackRox recently launched its new Prevent product, which enables security teams to apply centralised governance over their organizations’ container deployments, inventorying and stack-ranking the risk of those environments.
“Along with enabling this new developer landscape, we recognised the criticality of securing it,” said Tomasz Tunguz, general partner at Redpoint Ventures. “At a time when most companies are building commodity scanning technology, StackRox has focused its sophisticated team on solving the problem of continuous detection in containerised environments. The innovation of its Rox Engine in identifying adversarial intent and stopping attacks early in their life cycle will enable companies to reap the benefits of containerized development while protecting the business.”
The company’s customers include City National Bank, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other government agencies, and Global 2000 companies in the finance, media and technology sectors.
Following the investment, StackRox expanded its sales and marketing teams with the hire of TJ Cooley and Michelle McLean. Cooley, a seasoned enterprise sales executive who has served in senior positions at Tanium, VMware and Citrix, has joined as Vice President of Sales. While McLean, who previously held roles at ScaleArc, Silver Spring Networks, ConSentry Networks, Peribit Networks, and Trapeze Networks, joins StackRox as the company’s first vice president of marketing.
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