Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone to Tackle the Growing Complexity of Edge Security

Cybersecurity at the network edge is becoming increasingly complex as organizations use a mix of cloud providers, content delivery networks, web application firewalls and other security services. This makes it difficult for security teams to fully understand and protect these fragmented environments. The situation is further exacerbated by the rise of AI, which is creating new legitimate users and enabling attackers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities more quickly.

To address this challenge, Huskeys has raised $27 million in Series A funding led by Blackstone Innovations Investments. The company is building a new category called Network Edge Security Management (NESM) to help organizations manage security at the modern network edge. Huskeys' platform connects and orchestrates technologies across the edge, including CDNs, WAFs, cloud-native security solutions, and network components like load balancers, VPCs and security groups.

At the heart of the platform is Huskeys' patented Unified Data Model, which creates a common understanding of different environments, technologies and providers. This allows security insights, policies and actions to move seamlessly across platforms, supporting multi-cloud and multi-vendor environments. The platform also includes features like continuous posture assessment, dynamic policy generation, orchestration and Virtual Patching, which helps security teams mitigate vulnerabilities on the edge within minutes while permanent fixes are developed.

Huskeys' CEO, Itai Gafni, explains that the company was founded to help security teams manage increasingly complex edge environments with legacy tools that were not designed to work together. He emphasizes that every business today runs through its network edge, making it a critical point of attack and opportunity. The investment from Blackstone reflects the belief that the way organizations secure internet-facing applications needs to change in light of AI-driven traffic and fragmented edge environments.

Blackstone's Chief Information Security Officer, Adam Fletcher, believes Huskeys is well positioned to redefine how organizations manage edge security.