CloudKnox Security

History

2021: Microsoft Acquisition

Microsoft acquired CloudKnox Security, a platform developer for protecting cloud resources and separating access authority in cloud and hybrid infrastructures. This became known on July 21, 2021. The size of the deal between Microsoft and CloudKnox is not disclosed.

Microsoft announced the acquisition of CloudKnox Security, a cloud protection platform developer < br/> Photo source: playground.ru

CloudKnox was founded in 2015 by former VMWare developer Balaji Parimi and Rao Cherukuri. In 2018, they introduced their flagship product - a management system for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, which is based on a single technology for distinguishing powers between any digital infrastructure entities, whether people or machines.

Operators are CloudKnox shown all information about who has access to multi-cloud environments, endpoints, work environments, and flows in,, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure Google Cloud active directories, and - VPN connections. Built-in monitoring tools track the actions of users and digital units for anomalies, and the account management system tracks suspicious changes in the geolocation and type of customers.

Shortly before the acquisition, Microsoft CloudKnox attracted investments of $22.8 million in venture capital investments. Investors include ClearSky, Sorenson Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital and Foundation Capital.

A recent study by MarketWatch^[1] indicated that the global market for identity management and access to cloud resources was estimated at a billion dollars in 2020, and by 2027 this figure will increase to 16.2 billion dollars. The increased demand is due to the fact that business structures are increasingly using hybrid multi-cloud resources, where setting up and delineating access often causes significant difficulties, with a variety of management tools.

As companies move their resources to clouds and increasingly use multi-cloud and hybrid environments, the notion of perimeters is being eroded, and access to resources within them is becoming a growing problem to track and differentiate. Platforms that help provide "fine tuning" and constant monitoring in cloud and hybrid environments will be in growing demand - in fact, they are already in use, as the latest acquisition of Microsoft clearly indicates. said Dmitry Kiryukhin, an information security expert at SEC Consult Services.

On July 12, 2021, Microsoft acquired RiskIQ, a vendor of cybersecurity tools used, in particular, Facebook, BMW and American Express. Information about the financial side of the transaction is also not disclosed.

In January 2021, Microsoft announced that in 2020, its revenue from services related to cybersecurity amounted to more than $10 billion^[2].

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