Twistlock

Twistlock — the Israeli developer of technologies founded in 2015 for information security. The company develops the software for protection of besserverny, cloud and container applicaions.

Initially Twistlock placed emphasis on the containers Docker, but over time expanded possibilities of protection of the applications created on many container platforms and also virtual machines and besserverny environments. Developments of the company combine processes of management of vulnerabilities, compliance to regulatory requirements on  information  security and protection of environments for accomplishment of the code for cloud applicaions and workloads.

History

2019: Palo Alto Networks purchased Twistlock for $410 million

On May 29, 2019 Palo Alto Networks announced acquisition of Twistlock for $410 million. It is going to close the transaction in the fourth financial quarter which will come to the end on July 31, 2019.

By the end of May, 2019 Twistlock has 126 employees and more than 290 clients among whom — more than a quarter of the largest companies from the list of Fortune 100. Before sale of Palo Alto Networks the startup attracted in total $63.1 million investments.

Palo Alto Networks purchased software developer for security of besserverny and container applications

Palo Alto Networks shows much interest in the Israeli technology companies, and since the beginning of 2019 until the end of May spent more than $1 billion for their purchases.

The cofounder of Twistlock Ben Bernstein says that such technologies as the orchestration tool for management in in cluster environment of Kubernetes, services of orchestration from cloud providers, hybrid clouds, microservice architecture and service for start of containers without need to manage servers or clusters of AWS Fargate, become "a part of uniform continuous process". Twistlock needed to expand the offers to cover all platforms used for development and deployment of applications in a cloud environment, he noted.^[1]

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