Making it to the Sweet SINET 16
We were already having a great day yesterday – responding to all the congratulations messages on our funding, our huge 240% increase in revenue, and our customer momentum – when news hit that we were named amongst that select group of SINET 16 Innovator Award winners. Wow. The tally of ... Read More
Our $26.5M Round — Growth Built on Sea Change of Kubernetes and DevSecOps
Today we’re excited to announce our $26.5M round of funding led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Highland Capital Partners and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise along with existing investors Redpoint Ventures and Sequoia Capital. The influx of capital will enable us to meet rapidly growing demand driven by two of the biggest ... Read More
Protecting Against Kubernetes Threats: Chapter 9 – Impact
The final part of our nine-part blog series – where we examine each of the nine MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques for Kubernetes – analyzes a set of techniques that fall under the category known as Impact. These techniques are aimed at disrupting or destroying resources and activity within the ... Read More
Guide to Kubernetes Security Context and Security Policies
Securing pods, and the containers that run as part of them, is a critical aspect of protecting your Kubernetes environments. Among other reasons, pods and containers are the individual units of compute that are ultimately subject to adversarial techniques that may be used as part of any attack on your ... Read More
Protecting Against Kubernetes Threats: Chapter 8 – Lateral Movement
The eighth installment in our nine-part blog series – where we examine each of the nine MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques for Kubernetes – examines lateral movement. Following a breach, an attacker might try to move throughout the environment to gain access to other resources, including other containers, nodes, or ... Read More
Informatica + StackRox – Taking “Shared Responsibility” to a New Level to Enable DevSecOps
I’ve had the good fortune to get to know Pathik Patel, head of cloud security at Informatica, over the past 18 months since he became a StackRox customer, and today we’re sharing the news of our joint success story. Across our numerous conversations, he has repeatedly impressed me with his ... Read More
gRPC Anywhere
Many applications rely on gRPC to connect services, but a number of modern load balancers still do not support HTTP/2, and, in turn, gRPC. In an earlier blog post, we showed a way to take advantage of the gRPC-Web protocol to circumvent this issue. That solution works well for non-client-streaming ... Read More
What’s New in Kubernetes 1.19? New Features and Updates
The last several months have been a busy time for the Kubernetes community, and especially the Kubernetes release team, amid the challenges caused by the ongoing pandemic. The Kubernetes project itself has felt the impact, with the upcoming release of version 1.19 having been postponed and the project’s release schedule ... Read More
Launching StackRox in Europe – Why I’m joining the leader in Kubernetes-Native Container Security
I’m very pleased to announce the launch of StackRox’s EMEA business, with my new role as vice president, international. Why StackRox, why now? Having spent the first half of my career evangelising the Cloud and the second half Cyber Security, I’m super excited to help cloud-native companies to secure and ... Read More
Protecting Against Kubernetes Threats: Chapter 7 – Discovery
Part seven of our nine-part blog series – where we examine each of the nine MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques for Kubernetes – examines the technique known as Discovery. The tactics in this category are intended to help an attacker effectively explore a Kubernetes environment to achieve lateral movement and ... Read More

