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Sysdig Platform

Real-time CNAPP with agentic AI, runtime insights, and Falco-based threat detection.

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

Sysdig Platform Overview

What it does

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.

How it works

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.

Credentials and traction

Sysdig maintains SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 27701 certifications. The platform was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, Q1 2026, one of three vendors to earn that designation among 14 evaluated. Sysdig was previously named a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights "Voice of the Customer" report for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms. It serves roughly 700 customers.

Key Capabilities

mapped to solution categories
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

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.

Enriches cloud misconfigurations, vulnerable workloads, and runtime detections with threat intelligence on active exploitation, prioritizing exposures attackers use over theoretical severity alone.

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.

Analyzes container images and dependencies for CVEs, malicious or compromised packages, and SBOM generation across the build pipeline.

Reads cloud volume snapshots out-of-band to assess workloads for vulnerabilities, secrets, and misconfigurations without agents or touching running instances.

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.

Continuously audits cloud and Kubernetes configuration across AWS, Azure, and GCP against security benchmarks, flagging misconfigurations and identity-permission gaps that create exploitable exposures.

Scans infrastructure-as-code templates (Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm charts) for misconfigurations and policy violations before deployment, so issues are caught in the pipeline rather than in production.

Discovers and classifies sensitive data in IaaS and PaaS stores such as object storage, databases, and data warehouses, surfacing data exposure risk alongside infrastructure findings.

Supports on-premises or air-gapped artifact and workload inspection under customer control, so regulated or sovereign data never leaves the customer boundary.

Compliance

certifications
ISO 27001ISO 27701SOC 2 Type II

Integrations

compatible tools
Amazon EKSAnsibleAWSAzureAzure AKSCircleCIDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGitLabGoogle CloudGoogle GKEGrafanaJenkinsJiraKubernetesOpenShiftPagerDutyPrometheusRancherServiceNowSlackSplunkSumo LogicTerraform

Implementation & support

Deployment model
CloudHybridOn-PremisesSaaS
Pricing structure
Per EndpointUsage-based
Support channels
24/7 SupportCommunity ForumDocumentationEmail SupportKnowledge BaseTicketing Portal

Info last updated on May 27, 2026

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