Sandfly Security, an agentless Linux Security company, announced it secured seed funding from Gula Tech Adventures and Sorenson Capital to meet growing market demand for its comprehensive Linux security solution.
The industries that power the world’s infrastructure, including telecommunication services, manufacturing, and networking companies, depend on Sandfly to secure their Linux environments. Sandfly will use the funding to expand product capabilities and accelerate the company’s go-to-market strategy.
Nearly all of the critical infrastructure runs on Linux, but no security solution is compatible with the hundreds of versions of the popular operating system. And traditional approaches that use an agent to secure Linux systems face compatibility, performance, and stability hurdles.
These solutions generally cause excessive CPU usage, stability, and performance impacts, leading to productivity losses and vulnerable critical systems to attack. And Sandfly’s agentless approach solves these issues, giving customers the widest compatibility, performance, and safety for securing Linux.
Sandfly Security CEO and founder Craig Rowland is a seasoned entrepreneur building intrusion detection technologies with past successes. One of these technologies reduced false alarms by up to 95% and was successfully acquired by Cisco. Before moving into the private sector, Craig spent years working for the Chief of Naval Operations—U.S. Pentagon. And after seeing how incidents happen and how security teams struggle to protect their critical assets, Craig saw first-hand how challenging it was to secure Linux via the traditional agent-based approach.
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“Linux runs the internet—95% of cloud workloads run on Linux. Industrial apps in robotics, edge devices, networking gear, and most critical infrastructure run on Linux. Yet, there are no good tools available to secure it that do not impact stability and performance. Linux security is hard to achieve—it’s highly distributed, fragmented, and protection tools cannot disrupt mission-critical applications. This is why agent-based systems often won’t work, and we’re seeing strong demand for our approach as we eliminate the biggest problem: loading an agent.”
– Craig Rowland, CEO and Founder of Sandfly Security
“Craig is one of the rare entrepreneurs who has repeatedly proven he can build lasting companies that solve tough problems. The world relies on Linux, and we know how important it is to secure it—yet organizations don’t—leaving critical systems vulnerable. Existing agent-based solutions have compatibility and performance impacts, are hard to deploy, and likely break things. The market is desperate for a solution that works reliably, is easy to deploy, and is effective with what it promises to do. That’s Sandfly Security.”
– Ron Gula, co-founder of Tenable Network Security and founder of Gula Tech Adventures
