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Sysdig
Cybersecurity
Sysdig is a San Francisco-based cloud security company providing runtime threat detection and vulnerability management for containerized and cloud-native applications, built around the open-source Falco project.
$1.57B
+$6.08
149.39%
30 days ago
$4.07
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Sysdig was founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, one of the original creators of Wireshark, a widely used open-source network protocol analysis tool, building security and monitoring technology specifically designed for the containerized, cloud-native application architectures that have become increasingly dominant in modern software development, using Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration, environments that introduced significant new visibility and security challenges relative to traditional, more static virtual machine or physical server-based infrastructure, since containers are often extremely short-lived, with individual container instances frequently created and destroyed within minutes or even seconds as part of normal cloud-native application scaling and deployment patterns, making traditional security monitoring approaches designed around longer-lived, more static infrastructure poorly suited to this much more dynamic and ephemeral environment. Sysdig's platform provides runtime security monitoring specifically designed for this containerized environment, detecting potentially malicious or anomalous behavior occurring within running containers in real time, built around Falco, an open-source runtime security tool that Sysdig originally created and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, reflecting a common commercialization pattern among cloud-native infrastructure companies of building a widely adopted open-source project that establishes significant developer trust and adoption, then building commercial products and services on top of that open-source foundation. The company has expanded its platform to cover the broader cloud-native security lifecycle, including vulnerability scanning for container images before they're deployed to production, cloud security posture management identifying misconfigurations across cloud infrastructure, and compliance monitoring relevant to various regulatory and security framework requirements applicable to cloud-native application environments. Sysdig's customers span organizations across many industries that have adopted containerized, cloud-native application architectures and need security tooling specifically designed for this more dynamic infrastructure environment rather than security tools originally designed for more traditional, static infrastructure. The company has raised very substantial venture funding from investors including Insight Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Accel, reaching a valuation exceeding $1.19 billion, competing with other cloud-native security vendors including Aqua Security and Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Cloud.
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