Accurics Tackles Cloud Security Early On with Infrastructure as Code

… secure the cloud by protecting the full cloud-native stack throughout the DevOps life cycle, and ensures that risk posture does not drift from an established baseline.”

Partners Are Key

Channel partners including system integrators, managed service providers and managed security service providers will prove key to those efforts. Aggarwal said it’s too early to discuss Accurics’ channel strategy and program details. But he said partners will be vital to the company’s success. Accurics partners will need to know cloud architecture “fairly well,” he said, and understand DevOps processes. However, they do not need to be security experts.

In turn, partners who have downloaded the free version of the Accurics platform are reporting positive results, Campbell said.

“I’m very encouraged by the level of traction we’ve seen with partners,” she said.

Plus, she said, the Accurics platform “is very intriguing to partners because the sales cycles are pretty short.”

Finally, while Accurics may be new to the technology sector, Aggarwal is not. The company marks Aggarwal’s fifth startup. He also founded Layered Insight, which Qualys bought; Jvion, acquired by JMI Equity; Aqreva, snapped up by Invision Capital; and Soltius Indonesia, sold to Teledata. Accurics recently emerged from stealth mode with $5 million in seed funding from ClearSky Security Fund, a venture capital firm. Accurics’ other investors are WestWave, Secure Octane and Firebolt Ventures.