Red Hat on Thursday snapped up container and Kubernetes security startup StackRox, a deal that speeds up its ambitions in the enterprise cloud market.
Financial terms of the deal were not announced.
StackRox, based in Mountain View, Calif., raised about $65 million from a range of investors, including Menlo Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures.
The company is considered an innovator in powerful Kubernetes-native security capabilities and the deal will bring a strong technology and personnel base to drive Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes platform.
The open-source Red Hat, which provides enterprise Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies, is already a major player with its Red Hat OpenShift platform.
StackRox has developed a Kubernetes-native container security platform designed to help both security and DevOps teams enforce security and compliance policies. The platform can be integrated with existing tools. The company says it achieved a revenue growth of over 240% in the first half of 2020.
Kubernetes, one of the fastest growing open source projects, is the foundation of cloud-native applications.
“Container security is Linux security,” Red Hat said in a statement announcing the StackRox transaction. “With this acquisition, Red Hat will further expand its security leadership, adding StackRox’s complementary capabilities to strengthen integrated security across its open hybrid cloud portfolio with greater simplicity and consistency,” the company said.
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“With StackRox, Red Hat will focus on transforming how cloud-native workloads are secured by expanding and refining Kubernetes’ native controls, as well as shifting security left into the container build and CI/CD phase, to p ..
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