Oak9 improves cloud and infrastructure-as-code security

According to Oak9, a developer-first infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security solution, businesses are starting to approach apps like code. For instance, technologies that specify governance or policy concepts as code, like HashiCorp Sentinel, are available. By applying the proper security in accordance with SaC blueprints to risk-appropriately secure a cloud application's architecture, Oak9's platform is powered by its patented Security as Code (SaC) technology. SaC is designed to assess changes to cloud-native infrastructure.

According to the corporation, organizations today use a variety of tools, technologies, etc. Multicloud/multi-IaC language environments are becoming more and more common because of this. In addition, the technology-agnostic nature of Oak9 reduces the need to manage security across several technologies at once.

In order to allow developers to utilize their preferred IaC languages, clouds, multi-clouds, workflows, etc., the company claims to work with integrated development environments (IDEs), code repositories, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and chat ops tools.

The market's adoption of IaC has accelerated, making the security of cloud apps a crucial need that Oak9 can address, according to Alex Brown at the venture capital company HPA, which oversaw a recent investment round for Oak9.

According to Oak9, its technology speeds up the delivery of cloud-native applications while providing security to find and fix any weaknesses. The platform is made to inform users of the location of security flaws in a company's cloud, their criticality, the reasons for their existence, and how to fix them. Organizations can use the tool to apply the security fix to their whole cloud infrastructure.

In order to strengthen security in IaC and cloud environments, Oak9 just announced $8 million in new funding. The money will be used, in part, by Oak9, which recently announced an IaC remediation capability, to expand its free community version and introduce a new generation of Security as Code offerings.

Within the last 15 months, Oak9 has now raised $14 million. Menlo Ventures, which took the initiative in the most recent round, and HPA, which upped its investment in Oak9, are also participating.