Israeli open source security co ARMO raises $30m

• Published date: 27 April 2022
• Author: Ofir Dor
• Publication title: Globes (Rishon LeZion, Israel)

The Jerusalem-based company has developed an end-to-end, open, transparent and fully customizable security solution called Kubescape for the Kubernetes open-source community. Kubernetes has become the de-facto operating system for cloud-native applications, making Kubernetes security more essential than ever

The company was founded by CEO Shauli Rozen, CTO Leonid Sandler and VP R&D Ben Hirschberg.

Rozen said, "DevOps teams are responsible for the security of Kubernetes and they prefer to use an open source for it, but they also need the solution to be end-to-end and fit natively into their existing stack. Companies are being forced to choose: either try to integrate several different open source tools together or commit to a proprietary solution that you can't adapt, access the code, influence the roadmap or contribute to."

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