Sysdig Platform
Cloud security platform with real-time threat detection powered by open source Falco.
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Sysdig Platform Overview
Sysdig was founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, creator of Wireshark (the world's most popular network protocol analyzer with 160 million downloads) and WinPcap, with headquarters in San Francisco, California, to bring the same deep visibility philosophy from network packets to cloud-native systems. The company has raised $745 million across nine funding rounds led by Permira, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, and Insight Partners achieving a $2.5 billion valuation in December 2021, serving 700 customers including over 60% of the Fortune 500 with $147 million in revenue as of November 2024 representing 192% year-over-year growth and 149% net revenue retention demonstrating strong customer expansion.
The Sysdig Platform delivers runtime-powered cloud security through its foundation on open source Falco, which Sysdig contributed to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2018 and achieved CNCF graduation status in February 2024 after surpassing 100 million downloads to become the de facto standard for cloud-native threat detection used by major cloud providers including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat. The platform combines real-time runtime insights with comprehensive CNAPP capabilities including vulnerability management with reachability analysis, cloud security posture management for misconfiguration detection, cloud workload protection for runtime defense, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and Kubernetes security posture management, all powered by Sysdig Sage the first agentic AI analyst for cloud security that uses runtime intelligence to reason and act with unprecedented context enabling security teams to stop attacks in seconds rather than days by prioritizing only vulnerabilities and threats that actually matter based on what is running in production.
Sysdig maintains SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 27701 certifications demonstrating robust security and privacy controls while helping customers achieve compliance with frameworks including PCI DSS, NIST, HIPAA, and GDPR through automated remediation workflows. The company has been recognized with Fortune Cyber 60 (2024), Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (#289 in 2023), and Inc. 5000 awards, while expanding its open source leadership beyond Falco to establish the Wireshark Foundation in 2023 and launching Stratoshark in January 2025 as "Wireshark for the cloud" which achieved 40,000 downloads within weeks, maintaining its founding philosophy that security done right delivers visibility, trust, and control through open innovation built on transparent community-driven standards rather than proprietary black boxes.
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Enforces a single policy definition across AWS, Azure, and GCP resource types, translating to provider-native configurations rather than requiring separate policy sets per cloud.
Populates exercise technique selection from current threat intelligence about adversaries relevant to the organization, focusing exercise scope on realistic threats rather than theoretical coverage.
Delivers scan results inside developer IDEs and pipeline stages so developers receive findings before code merges, reducing the cost and cycle time of remediation.
Correlates individual misconfigurations and CVEs into chained attack scenarios showing lateral movement paths from exposed entry point to a target asset. Produces a prioritized list of attack paths rather than a flat CVE inventory.
Exports compliance evidence pre-mapped to framework control requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS), in formats auditors can consume directly: not raw CSV exports requiring manual assembly.
Scans container base images and dependencies for packages with known malicious behavior or compromise (typosquatting, backdoored releases) beyond CVE matching on legitimate code.
Reads cloud volume snapshots out-of-band to assess workloads without deploying agents or sending traffic to running instances. Enables coverage of systems that cannot run agents (mid-migration, locked-down, or legacy.
Analyzes IAM policies across AWS, Azure, and GCP to surface over-permissioned roles, unused permissions, and cross-account trust relationships that create lateral movement opportunities.
Instruments workload behavior at the kernel level via eBPF without a traditional user-space agent. Provides syscall-level visibility into process execution, network connections, and file access in running containers and VMs.
Monitors running pod and container behavior against policy, detecting unexpected process execution, network connections, and privilege escalation at runtime rather than at image scan time.
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