Cybersecurity companies have long competed by offering another layer of protection for a growing number of threats. Huskeys is taking a different approach, arguing that organizations now face an equally significant problem: managing the growing number of security and infrastructure technologies they already have.
The company has raised a $27 million Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, bringing Huskeys’ total funding to $35 million after a previous $8 million seed round. The funding was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and supports Huskeys’ effort to build a new category it calls Network Edge Security Management, or NESM.
Other investors participating in the round include Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital and SV Angel. The round also includes 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.
The Growing Management Problem
The technologies protecting internet-facing applications have multiplied. Organizations now operate across cloud providers, content delivery networks, web application firewalls and other network services, often creating environments where security controls are distributed across different platforms.
That complexity can make it difficult to develop a complete view of the network edge. Security teams must determine whether controls are effective, understand how changes in one environment may affect another and respond to emerging threats without interrupting legitimate business activity.
The challenge is becoming more acute as applications themselves become increasingly dynamic. AI agents are beginning to interact with applications autonomously, creating new forms of legitimate traffic, while attackers are using AI-driven capabilities to accelerate vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
For organizations, the result is a difficult balancing act. They must strengthen security without creating false positives that block legitimate users or disrupt revenue-critical applications.
Huskeys’ Answer: A Layer Above the Existing Stack
Huskeys is not positioning NESM as a replacement for the security and network products organizations already use. Instead, the company is building a management and intelligence layer designed to connect those technologies.
Its platform operates across the modern network edge, connecting CDNs and WAFs, cloud-native security solutions and network components including load balancers, VPCs and security groups.
The company’s patented Unified Data Model is designed to provide a common layer of understanding across different technologies and providers. Huskeys says this enables security insights, policies and actions to move across platforms while helping organizations manage multi-cloud and multi-vendor environments.
The platform includes continuous posture assessment, dynamic policy generation, orchestration and Virtual Patching. Virtual Patching allows security teams to mitigate vulnerabilities at the network edge while permanent fixes are being developed, tested and deployed in application code.
“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 Expanding Opportunity at the Edge
Huskeys says its customers include 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.
The investment from Blackstone reflects the view that managing internet-facing applications will require more than adding another standalone security product.
“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.”
Huskeys’ broader bet is that as the edge becomes more fragmented, security will increasingly depend on the ability to connect and manage existing technologies. The $27 million Series A gives the company additional backing to pursue that category at a time when AI is adding new urgency to an already complicated problem.
