Cloud security startup Accurics emerged from stealth today to tackle the challenges of securing cloud infrastructure throughout the DevOps life cycle. Accurics has raised $5 million in funding from investors including ClearSky, WestWave Capital, Firebolt Ventures, and Secure Octane.
The company is also releasing a free version of its platform, which aims to minimize “drift” between infrastructure defined through code and infrastructure computing running in the cloud. As organizations adopt new technologies like containers and serverless, cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly immutable, and infrastructure is rarely modified after it’s deployed. If something needs to be modified after deployment, new infrastructure has to be provisioned.
Broad and fast adoption of cloud technologies is driving innovation, says Accurics co-founder and CEO Sachin Aggarwal, but it introduces new challenges in protecting more complex cloud stacks.
Security issues in cloud deployments are often ignored because finding and fixing problems is expensive and…
