Enterprise cybersecurity teams are increasingly dealing with a problem that is less about whether they have security tools and more about whether those tools can work together.
Internet-facing applications now operate across a growing combination of cloud providers, content delivery networks, web application firewalls and other network services. That expansion has given organizations more ways to build and secure applications, but it has also created fragmented environments that can be difficult to understand and manage consistently.
Huskeys is betting that this growing complexity requires a new layer of security management. The cybersecurity company has raised a $27 million Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, bringing its total funding to $35 million following an $8 million seed round. The funding was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The round also included Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital and SV Angel, as well as individual investors including WAF and CAPTCHA inventor Eran Reshef and executives from organizations including Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Check Point, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Intel.
Security Teams Are Managing an Expanding Edge
The network edge has become a convergence point for applications, customers, revenue and cyber threats. Yet the technologies used to manage that environment are often distributed across multiple vendors and platforms.
Security teams may need to understand configurations and policies across CDNs, WAFs, cloud-native security tools and networking components such as load balancers, VPCs and security groups. Making changes in those environments can introduce a separate risk: disrupting legitimate traffic while attempting to block malicious activity.
That balancing act is becoming more difficult as applications become increasingly dynamic and AI-driven. Security teams must respond to emerging threats while maintaining business continuity and avoiding false positives that could affect customers.
Huskeys is building what it calls a Network Edge Security Management platform, or NESM, to address that challenge.
A Layer Above Existing Security Tools
The company’s approach does not involve replacing the infrastructure organizations already use. Instead, Huskeys’ platform is designed to connect and orchestrate existing technologies across the network edge.
Through its patented Unified Data Model, the company creates a common layer of understanding across different environments, providers and technologies. The goal is to allow security insights, policies and actions to move across platforms while supporting multi-cloud and multi-vendor environments.
The platform includes continuous posture assessment, dynamic policy generation and orchestration. It also provides Virtual Patching, which allows security teams to mitigate vulnerabilities directly at the network edge while a permanent fix is developed, tested and deployed within application code.
Huskeys is also addressing the growing role of autonomous AI agents, which are creating new forms of legitimate traffic that security teams must distinguish from potentially malicious automation.
“We founded Huskeys because security teams are being asked to protect increasingly complex edge environments with legacy tools that were never designed to work together or to address the challenges of the new AI era,” said Itai Gafni, CEO and Co-Founder of Huskeys. “Every business today runs through its network edge - that’s where your customers, your revenue, and your threats all meet, yet for most organizations, that edge works against them instead of for them. As AI transforms both legitimate traffic and cyberattacks, organizations need an intelligence layer that continuously understands what’s happening across the edge and adapts security in real time. Our goal is to make the network finally work for the business, not against it. That’s the category we’re building.”
An Investor Bet on Network Edge Security
Huskeys says its customer base includes TikTok, LEGOLAND, Ro, Blackstone and Hugging Face. The company is already analyzing more than a trillion web requests and thousands of network configurations every day across organizations worldwide.
Blackstone’s investment comes as organizations face increasing pressure to secure infrastructure without creating friction for the applications and services that generate business value.
“The way organizations secure internet-facing applications is fundamentally changing. AI-driven traffic and increasingly fragmented edge environments require a new approach to security management,” said Adam Fletcher, Chief Information Security Officer at Blackstone. “Huskeys has built a platform designed to operate at enterprise scale while advancing a new category for the modern network edge. We believe the company is well positioned to redefine how organizations manage edge security, and we’re excited to support Huskeys as they continue to develop their product in this important category.”
The central question Huskeys is trying to answer is becoming increasingly relevant: as organizations add more security and infrastructure technologies to the network edge, who or what will manage the entire environment as one connected system?