Tigera provides security and observability solutions for containerized applications and Kubernetes environments, utilizing eBPF technology for network security and policy management. The platform addresses vulnerabilities and compliance issues by enabling real-time monitoring, threat detection, and automated policy enforcement across cloud-native infrastructures.
Funding
$53M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Securing and observing containerized applications and Kubernetes environments at scale presents significant challenges, including managing network security, addressing vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance, and troubleshooting network issues. Traditional security approaches often lack the granularity and automation required for dynamic cloud-native infrastructures.
Solution
Tigera provides a comprehensive security and observability platform for Kubernetes and containerized environments, leveraging eBPF technology to deliver network security, compliance, and threat detection. The platform enables real-time monitoring, policy enforcement, and automated security measures across cloud-native infrastructures. By offering features such as microsegmentation, vulnerability management, and intrusion detection, Tigera helps organizations proactively prevent security breaches, achieve continuous compliance, and simplify operations. Tigera's solutions empower both development and security teams to collaborate effectively, ensuring a robust security posture and faster troubleshooting.
Target Audience
Tigera's primary customers are enterprises adopting containers and Kubernetes, including DevOps, security, and platform engineering teams responsible for securing and managing cloud-native applications.
Features
- Kubernetes security: Implements robust network security policies to prevent breaches and limit egress traffic based on IPs, domains, and CIDRs.
- Container security: Provides comprehensive container security features, including vulnerability management and configuration security.
- Network security: Enables microsegmentation, namespace isolation, and custom security policies for granular control over network traffic.
- High-availability networking: Offers high-performance networking with a pluggable dataplane architecture supporting Linux, eBPF, Windows, and VPP.
- Cluster mesh: Facilitates seamless connectivity, service discovery, and network security for multi-cluster Kubernetes applications.
- Observability: Enhances network visibility with detailed traffic data and workload connection mapping for faster troubleshooting and security insights.
- Compliance: Ensures continuous compliance with PCI, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, and other regulations through policy-as-code and on-demand compliance reports.
- Threat detection: Proactively detects and prevents known and zero-day attacks with intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) and WAF capabilities.
- Vulnerability Management: Scans images for vulnerabilities during the build process and continuously scans production workloads.