Security News > 2021 > April > AccuKnox raises $4.6M to capitalize on its technology innovations in security and zero trust solutions

AccuKnox announced that it has closed an over-subscribed $4.6 million seed financing led by National Grid Partners, with strategic participation from SRI, z5Capital and Outliers VC. The funding will be used to expand the engineering team and enable AccuKnox to further capitalize on its technology innovations in security and zero trust in dynamic, cloud-native environments.

AccuKnox is a zero trust run-time Kubernetes security platform that leverages an identity-driven approach.

AccuKnox is the founding team behind KubeArmor, an open source run-time security enforcement system that leverages Linux Security Module.

"We're confident that the combination of SRI innovations and AccuKnox's proven team will deliver a category leading, zero trust security platform to address emerging threats."

"Container adoption is increasing, and security must come along for the ride. Organizations value the scalability and agility that containers offer, but containers introduce new security challenges that can't be addressed with traditional security and networking tools. Commonly accepted security tools like vulnerability scanners, network forensics, and endpoint detection and response are too heavyweight for a container environment. Security pros need cloud native tools that are purpose-built for high scale, lightweight, ephemeral container environments." - Best Practices For Container Security, Forrester Research, July 24, 2020.

"AccuKnox's foundational innovations in the areas of container security, un-supervised learning and data provenance are precisely what is needed for delivering a comprehensive and robust cloud native zero-trust security platform." - Chase Cunningham, Renowned CyberSecurity Analyst and zero-trust expert.

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