The cybersecurity industry has spent years adding new layers of protection around applications, cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing services. But as organizations adopt more cloud providers, CDNs, web application firewalls and network technologies, a different problem is emerging: managing all of those systems together.
That challenge is now attracting investor attention. Huskeys has raised a $27 million Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, bringing its total funding to $35 million following an $8 million seed round. The funding was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and comes as Huskeys builds what it calls a new category of cybersecurity technology: Network Edge Security Management, or NESM.
Other investors in the round include Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital and SV Angel, alongside individual investors including WAF and CAPTCHA inventor Eran Reshef and executives from Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Check Point, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Intel.
The Cost of a Fragmented Edge
The network edge has become increasingly crowded. Modern applications often depend on a mix of cloud infrastructure, security products, content delivery networks and networking components, with each platform generating its own policies, configurations and security signals.
