Huskeys Secures $27M in Series A Funding Led by Blackstone to Develop a New Security Layer for the Network Edge.

      The cybersecurity sector has invested years in enhancing protection around applications, cloud infrastructure, and services that are exposed to the internet. However, as organizations incorporate more cloud providers, content delivery networks (CDNs), web application firewalls, and various networking technologies, a new challenge has emerged: the integration and management of these diverse systems.

      This issue is now attracting interest from investors. Huskeys has secured $27 million in Series A funding, led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, increasing its total funding to $35 million after an initial $8 million seed round. The Financial Times was the first to report the funding, which supports Huskeys as it develops what it describes as a new category of cybersecurity technology known as Network Edge Security Management (NESM).

      Other participants in this funding round include Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital, and SV Angel, along with individual investors such as Eran Reshef, the inventor of WAF and CAPTCHA, as well as executives from major companies like Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Check Point, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Intel.

      **The Cost of a Fragmented Edge**

      The network edge has grown increasingly congested. Contemporary applications often rely on a combination of cloud infrastructure, security solutions, content delivery networks, and networking components, each producing its own set of policies, configurations, and security signals.

      This fragmentation complicates security management. Teams need to ascertain whether controls are functioning properly, evaluate how alterations in policy will impact legitimate traffic, and respond to new threats without disrupting mission-critical applications.

      The implications extend beyond cybersecurity. Blocking authorized traffic can hurt customer experiences and revenue, while allowing harmful traffic can provide an opportunity for attackers. With organizations managing more complex environments, security teams face the challenge of simultaneously addressing both risks.

      The pressure is further intensified by AI. Autonomous agents are generating new types of legitimate application traffic, while attackers are utilizing AI-driven capabilities to identify and exploit vulnerabilities more swiftly.

      Huskeys aims to address this growing need to comprehend and manage various forms of traffic and infrastructure through a cohesive layer.

      **A Platform Designed to Work With Existing Infrastructure**

      Instead of replacing current technologies within organizations, Huskeys’ platform is designed to integrate with them. It connects and orchestrates CDNs, WAFs, cloud-native security tools, and networking elements like load balancers, VPCs, and security groups.

      The company claims its patented Unified Data Model offers a shared understanding across diverse technologies and providers. This strategy is intended to facilitate the movement of security insights, policies, and actions across different environments, while supporting multi-cloud and multi-vendor infrastructures.

      The platform features continuous posture assessment, dynamic policy generation, orchestration, and virtual patching. The virtual patching feature allows organizations to address vulnerabilities at the network edge while a permanent fix is in development, testing, and deployment within the application code.

      Huskeys is also tackling the rise of agentic traffic by assisting organizations in distinguishing and managing legitimate AI-driven interactions while minimizing security risks and false positives.

      “We founded Huskeys to assist security teams tasked with safeguarding increasingly intricate edge environments with outdated tools that were never intended to be integrated or to solve the challenges of the new AI landscape,” stated Itai Gafni, CEO and Co-Founder of Huskeys.

      “Today’s businesses operate through their network edge – where customers, revenue, and threats converge. For most organizations, this edge often operates against them rather than for them. As AI transforms both legitimate traffic and cyber threats, organizations require an intelligence layer that consistently monitors actions across the edge and adapts security in real-time. Our objective is to ensure the network works for the business, not against it. This is the category we are creating.”

      Huskeys reports that its clients include TikTok, LEGOLAND, Ro, Blackstone, and Hugging Face. The company is currently analyzing over a trillion web requests and numerous network configurations daily across global organizations.

      For Blackstone, this investment highlights the rising significance of managing security across increasingly distributed environments.

      “The methods by which organizations secure internet-facing applications are undergoing a fundamental change. AI-driven traffic combined with progressively fragmented edge environments necessitates a new approach to security management,” explained Adam Fletcher, Chief Information Security Officer at Blackstone. “Huskeys has developed a platform designed to function at an enterprise scale while paving the way for a new category in modern network edge security. We believe the company is well positioned to redefine how organizations manage edge security, and we are eager to support Huskeys as they continue to enhance their product within this important area.”

      As AI-driven traffic and fragmented infrastructure continue to reshape the network edge, Huskeys is making a broader strategic decision: that organizations will require a specific management layer that can connect their existing technologies rather than a new standalone security solution.