Company:Sysdig

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Sysdig is a cybersecurity company that prevents, detects, and responds to threats in cloud applications and infrastructure. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sysdig
TypePrivate
IndustryCybersecurity
Founded2013
FounderLoris Degioanni
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA
Key people
Suresh Vasudevan (CEO)
ProductsSysdig Secure, Sysdig Monitor
Websitesysdig.com

History

Loris Degioanni founded Sysdig in 2013 in Davis, California.[1] Degioanni was a former co-creator of Wireshark, a packet analyzer tool.[2] CASE Technology, Degioanni’s company that originally sponsored open-source Wireshark, was acquired by Riverbed in 2010.[3]

Loris Degioanni onstage giving a keynote at Italian Tech Week 2022
Loris Degioanni giving a keynote at Italian Tech Week 2022

Sysdig launched with an open-source monitoring project in April 2014 called Sysdig Open Source.[1] The company’s first commercial product, Sysdig Cloud, later renamed Sysdig Monitor, launched in 2015.[4] Sysdig has since released several open-source tools including Sysdig Inspect[5] and Falco.[6] In 2017, Sysdig launched its commercial container security solution, Sysdig Secure,[7] and added cloud security to Sysdig Secure in 2021.[8]

As of 2022, Sysdig employed over 600 individuals worldwide.[9] The company operates globally with two offices in the United States: San Francisco, California; and Raleigh, North Carolina.[10] Sysdig has international offices in Milan, Italy; London, United Kingdom; Frankfurt, Germany; Zaragoza, Spain; Belgrade, Serbia; San José, Costa Rica; and Ramat Gan, Israel.[11]

Technology

Sysdig sells products for cloud security and IT operations use cases. Using both an agent[12] and agentless[13] approach, the company consolidates live runtime data to inform recommendations and prioritize actions for customers. The company sells two commercial solutions: Sysdig Secure and Sysdig Monitor.[14]

The Sysdig Threat Research Team has discovered and responsibly disclosed several cloud vulnerabilities that garnered significant media coverage in the Washington Post,[15] Bleeping Computer,[16] Dark Reading,[17] and Heise.[18] The team adds its findings into the Sysdig product to expand the attack techniques that Sysdig can detect, and to advance its machine learning algorithms.[19]

Sysdig supports multiple cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS),[20] Microsoft Azure, [21] Google Cloud Platform (GCP),[22] IBM,[23] and Red Hat OpenShift.[24]

Open-Source Contributions

Sysdig is built on open-source tools including Falco, Open Policy Agent (OPA), eBPF, and Prometheus.[25] Falco is the rule language and the third major open-source project that the Sysdig engineering team created in 2016.[26]

Open source Falco detects unexpected behavior, intrusions, and data theft in real time.[26] In 2018, Falco was accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project[27] and was voted to the incubation-level hosted stage in 2020.[28] Sysdig remains an active supporter of the Falco project, including contributing to its extensibility to accommodate cloud log detections from custom sources.[29]

Sysdig donated the Sysdig kernel module, eBPF probe, and libraries to the Falco community, maintained by the CNCF, in 2021. According to the team that wrote the code, it took more than 100,000 hours to write, and was the largest eBPF donation made at the time.[30][31]

Funding

Sysdig investors include Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, DFJ Growth, Glynn Capital, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, Next47, Permira, Premji Invest & Associates, and Third Point. In April 2021, the company closed a $188 million Series F round led by Premji Invest & Associates and Third Point and achieved unicorn status. Later that year, in December, the company closed a $350 million Series G round led by Permira’s growth fund after doubling its valuation in less than eight months. The Series G round brought the company’s total funding to $744 million.[32]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sysdig, a container monitoring startup, raises $10.7M" (in en-US). 2015-07-14. https://venturebeat.com/business/sysdig-a-container-monitoring-startup-raises-10-7m/. 
  2. ↑ Bridgwater, Adrian. "Sysdig Wireshark Foundation, We’re Gonna Need A Safer Cloud" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2023/03/01/sysdig-wireshark-foundation-were-gonna-need-a-safer-cloud/. 
  3. ↑ "Riverbed Expands Further Into The Application-Aware Network Performance Management Market with the Acquisition of CACE Technologies - Media Releases - Channel Asia". https://www.channelasia.tech/mediareleases/11503/riverbed-expands-further-into-the-application/. 
  4. ↑ Vizard, Mike (2015-07-14). "Sysdig Takes Wraps Off Container Monitoring Tools" (in en-US). https://www.itbusinessedge.com/it-management/sysdig-takes-wraps-off-container-monitoring-tools/. 
  5. ↑ "Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security" (in en). https://www.zdnet.com/article/wireshark-creator-joins-sysdig-to-extend-it-to-cloud-security/. 
  6. ↑ Yegulalp, Serdar (2016-05-19). "Open source tool watches Linux systems, containers for suspicious activity" (in en). https://www.infoworld.com/article/3072580/open-source-tool-watches-linux-systems-containers-for-suspicious-activity.html. 
  7. ↑ Barron, Jenna Sargent (2017-10-12). "Sysdig announces release of Sysdig Secure" (in en-US). https://sdtimes.com/container/sysdig-announces-release-sysdig-secure/. 
  8. ↑ "Sysdig launches unified cloud and container security posture management products" (in en-US). 2021-03-30. https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/30/sysdig-launches-new-unified-cloud-container-security-cspm-products/. 
  9. ↑ "Cybersecurity has 53 unicorns. Here are 10 to watch" (in en-US). 2022-03-17. https://venturebeat.com/security/cybersecurity-has-53-unicorns-here-are-10-to-watch/. 
  10. ↑ "Sysdig apporte sécurité et résilience aux microservices - Le Monde Informatique" (in fr). https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-sysdig-apporte-securite-et-resilience-aux-microservices-89492.html. 
  11. ↑ "Contact Us" (in en-US). https://sysdig.com/contact-us/. 
  12. ↑ "Sysdig CTO Loris Degioanni on community and container security" (in en-US). The Stack. 2023-02-07. https://thestack.technology/sysdig-cto-loris-degioanni-the-stack-cloud-container-security/. 
  13. ↑ "Unlocking the Benefits and Trade-Offs of Agentless Cloud Security" (in en-US). https://thecybersecurity.news/general-cyber-security-news/unlocking-the-benefits-and-trade-offs-of-agentless-cloud-security-25111/. 
  14. ↑ "Sysdig moots channel changes in evolving market" (in en). 2023-01-27. https://www.iteuropa.com/news/sysdig-moots-channel-changes-evolving-market. 
  15. ↑ "Analysis | Inside North Korean hackers’ unusual money laundering technique" (in en-US). Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/29/inside-north-korean-hackers-unusual-money-laundering-technique/. 
  16. ↑ "Hackers hijack Linux devices using PRoot isolated filesystems" (in en-us). https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-linux-devices-using-proot-isolated-filesystems/. 
  17. ↑ Writer, Jai VijayanContributing; ReadingJanuary 06, Dark; 2023 (2023-01-06). "PurpleUrchin Gang Embraces DevOps in Massive Cloud Malware Campaign" (in en). https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/purpleurchin-devops-cloud-malware-campaign. 
  18. ↑ online, heise. "Sysdig-Report: Container-Deployments weisen mehrheitlich Schwachstellen auf" (in de). https://www.heise.de/news/Sysdig-Report-Container-Deployments-weisen-mehrheitlich-Schwachstellen-auf-6336816.html. 
  19. ↑ "ThreatQuotient Selected by Sysdig to Scale Cloud Threat Detection and Response" (in en). 2023-02-23. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230223005190/en/ThreatQuotient-Selected-by-Sysdig-to-Scale-Cloud-Threat-Detection-and-Response. 
  20. ↑ "AWS Partner Solutions Finder". https://partners.amazonaws.com/partners/001E000000wNQeoIAG/Sysdig. 
  21. ↑ "Microsoft Azure Marketplace" (in en-us). https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/sysdig.sysdig-enterprise-azure?tab=overview. 
  22. ↑ "Google Cloud console". https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/sysdig-public/sysdig-secure-devops-platform?pli=1. 
  23. ↑ "Sysdig Secure for IBM Cloud Paks - Overview" (in en-us). https://www.ibm.com/products/sysdig-secure. 
  24. ↑ "Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog". https://catalog.redhat.com/software/container-stacks/detail/5e9872842989e6a90307acd9. 
  25. ↑ "Sysdig Launches Wireshark Foundation | DEVOPSdigest". https://www.devopsdigest.com/sysdig-launches-wireshark-foundation. 
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Grasso, Leonardo (2022) (in English). Practical Cloud Native Security with Falco: Risk and Threat Detection for Containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud (1st ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. pp. 3-14. ISBN 978-1098118570. 
  27. ↑ Vizard, Mike (2018-10-15). "CNCF Embraces Sysdig's Falco Container Security Runtime" (in en-US). https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/container-ecosystems/cncf-embraces-sysdigs-falco-container-security-runtime/. 
  28. ↑ "TOC votes to move Falco into CNCF incubator" (in en-US). 2020-01-08. https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/01/08/toc-votes-to-move-falco-into-cncf-incubator/. 
  29. ↑ Vizard, Mike (2022-09-15). "Sysdig Adds gVisor Support to Falco Container Security Platform" (in en-US). https://cloudnativenow.com/uncategorized/sysdig-adds-gvisor-support-to-falco-container-security-platform/. 
  30. ↑ Vizard, Michael (2021-02-24). "Sysdig Donates Module to CNCF to Improve Linux Security" (in en-US). https://securityboulevard.com/2021/02/sysdig-donates-ebpf-to-cncf-to-improve-linux-security/. 
  31. ↑ "Sysdig" (in en). https://github.com/draios. 
  32. ↑ Hu, Krystal (2021-12-15). "Security firm Sysdig raises $350 million in latest funding led by Permira" (in en). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/security-firm-sysdig-raises-350-million-latest-funding-led-by-permira-2021-12-15/. 


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