Cloud security engineers are notoriously overworked and under-resourced. This curated list has links to tools, frameworks and resources to make their lives easier.
These are vendors with publicly traded stocks. The links lead to a vendor's website, LinkedIn company page and the stock price on Yahoo! Finance.
Venture-funded companies
Ordered by date (descending)
- Talon, $825M - Dec 2023
- Dig Security, $350M - Dec 2023
- Zycada Networks, undisclosed - April 2023
- Cider Security, $198M - Dec 2022
- Expanse, $797M - Dec 2020
- Crypsis, $228M - Sept 2020
- Cloudgenix, $403M - April 2020
- Sinefa, $44M - Nov 2020
- Aporeto, $144M - Dec 2019
- Twistlock, $378M - July 2019
- Demisto, $474M - March 2019
- RedLock, $158M - Oct 2018
- Secdo, $83M - April 2018
- Evident.io, $293M - March 2018
- Cyvera, $178M - April 2014
- Bridgecrew, $157M - March 2021
- Aporeto, $144M - Dec 2019
- Lightcyber, $103M - Feb 2017
- Deep Factor - August 2024
- Isovalent - December 2023 blog post
- Oort - July 2023 blog
- Robust Intelligence - August 2024 blog post
includes only security-related acquisitions
Ordered by date (descending)
Ordered by date (descending)
- Ermetic, $265M - Sept 2023
- Bit Discovery, $44.5M - April 2022
- Cymptom, undisclosed - Feb 2022
- Accurics, $160M - Sept 2021
- FlawCheck, undisclosed - Oct 2016
Ordered by date (descending)
- Gem Security, undisclosed - April 2024
- Rafft, undisclosed - December 2023
Managed Service Providers
Native security products offered by the major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Security Categories / Glossary
- AI-SPM - AI Security Posture Management
- ASPM - Application Security Posture Management
- CAASM - Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management
- CASB - Cloud Access Security Brokers
- CCO - Corporate Compliance and Oversight
- CDR - Cloud Detection and Response
- CIEM - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management
- CNAPP - Cloud-native Application Protection Platform
- CSPM - Cloud Security Posture Management
- CWPP - Cloud Workload Protection Platform
- CTEM - Continuous Threat Exposure Management
- DSPM - Data Security Posture Management
- EDR - Endpoint Detection and Response
- GRC - Governance, Risk and Compliance
- IGA - Identity Governance Administration
- ITDR - Identity Threat Detection and Response
- KSPM - Kubernetes Security Posture Management
- MDR - Managed Detection and Response
- PAM - Privileged Access Management
- SIEM - Security Information and Event Management
- SOAR - Security Orchestration, Automation and Response
- SOC - Security Operations Center
- XDR - Extended Detection and Response
- XSIAM - Extended Security Intelligence and Automation Management
- Nextdoor CSPM Evaluation Matrix GitHub
- Simple CSPM - GCP CSPM using Google Sheets GitHub
- Prisma Cloud Channel Resource GitHub
- What is eBPF? eBPF Docs
- Building a Security Graph Application on Amazon Neptune GitHub