
Rahul Jadhav
Co-Founder & CTO
AI-Powered Cybersecurity Solutions
Established not long ago, Accuknox has grown to become a chief player in the world of cybersecurity with a focus on performance efficiency. It provides a minimalist deployment choice, making it an appealing alternative for organizations to improve their security stance without engulfing their infrastructure. It emerged from its inception as part of a research partnership with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), a top-ranked institution regarded for its head research and technological innovation.
The collaboration was to build a cultured security engine that would be able to solve severe problems like intrusion detection, anomaly detection, and data protection within public and private cloud platforms. Currently, the firm has a growing number of happy customers who have made the most of its innovative offerings. Accuknox differentiates itself within the cybersecurity field by providing a twofold strategy for AI, namely ‘AI for Security’ and ‘Security for AI’. This holistic approach enables the company
to deal with the special challenges presented by AI technologies while utilizing AI to make its security solutions better.
Comprehensive Security Platform
Accuknox's solution is built to deliver an end-to-end cybersecurity solution, covering different branches of security. It supports regular platforms, including prominent public clouds like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle, and private cloud environments like RedHat, Open Shift, and VMware. It also provides Kubernetes security for managed Kubernetes distributions and supports both modern workloads, such as APIs and LLMs, and legacy applications.
Accuknox is also focused on governance and compliance and provides support for more than 33 compliance reports and GRC frameworks. This makes it possible for organizations to achieve their compliance requirements irrespective of where they are located geographically.
Zero Trust runtime security solution is its main product which offers multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support. The platform allows organizations to consolidate multiple cloud accounts into a single interface, enabling comprehensive scanning and prioritization of security findings across all accounts. This unique capability sets Accuknox apart in the Cloud Native Application Protection (CNAPP) space, as it empowers DevSecOps teams and CISOs to address the most critical vulnerabilities effectively.
The company has developed ModelKnox, a sub-product that serves as a firewall between sensitive company data and employees. Accuknox is committed to ethical AI, ensuring compliance with data protection laws and preventing the leakage of personally identifiable information (PII). It addresses bias in AI models by implementing safeguards across its datasets, models, APIs, and AI pipelines.
In the past year, Accuknox's teams have created modules to tackle these challenges, receiving positive feedback from industry leaders like NVIDIA and Nutanix. The company provides visibility into datasets and models, enabling organizations to train their applications securely while minimizing risks from AI threats. Founded in 2021 under a NASSCOM India startup project, Accuknox has been recognized as one of Silicon Valley's top 10 cybersecurity vendors. Some of the awards and recognitions that the company holds high are Enterprise Security Top 10 Zero Trust Security Solution Providers 2021, NASSCOM Emerge 50 Awards, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubation Project Awards, NetApp Accelerator, SI 100 Most Promising Technology Companies – 2021, TiE Fostering, CYbertech 100, and 5G OPEN INNOATION LAB.
Future Roadmap
Roadmap-wise, Accuknox's future strategies involve growing its product lines to further identity and entitlement management, and endpoint protection with EDR and MDR features. Furthermore, it also endeavors to emphasize on deepening its solutions in application, network, storage security and customer-driven development (CDD).
Comprehensive Security Platform
Accuknox's solution is built to deliver an end-to-end cybersecurity solution, covering different branches of security. It supports regular platforms, including prominent public clouds like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle, and private cloud environments like RedHat, Open Shift, and VMware. It also provides Kubernetes security for managed Kubernetes distributions and supports both modern workloads, such as APIs and LLMs, and legacy applications.
Accuknox is also focused on governance and compliance and provides support for more than 33 compliance reports and GRC frameworks. This makes it possible for organizations to achieve their compliance requirements irrespective of where they are located geographically.
Zero Trust runtime security solution is its main product which offers multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support. The platform allows organizations to consolidate multiple cloud accounts into a single interface, enabling comprehensive scanning and prioritization of security findings across all accounts. This unique capability sets Accuknox apart in the Cloud Native Application Protection (CNAPP) space, as it empowers DevSecOps teams and CISOs to address the most critical vulnerabilities effectively.
The company has developed ModelKnox, a sub-product that serves as a firewall between sensitive company data and employees. Accuknox is committed to ethical AI, ensuring compliance with data protection laws and preventing the leakage of personally identifiable information (PII). It addresses bias in AI models by implementing safeguards across its datasets, models, APIs, and AI pipelines.
In the past year, Accuknox's teams have created modules to tackle these challenges, receiving positive feedback from industry leaders like NVIDIA and Nutanix. The company provides visibility into datasets and models, enabling organizations to train their applications securely while minimizing risks from AI threats. Founded in 2021 under a NASSCOM India startup project, Accuknox has been recognized as one of Silicon Valley's top 10 cybersecurity vendors. Some of the awards and recognitions that the company holds high are Enterprise Security Top 10 Zero Trust Security Solution Providers 2021, NASSCOM Emerge 50 Awards, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubation Project Awards, NetApp Accelerator, SI 100 Most Promising Technology Companies – 2021, TiE Fostering, CYbertech 100, and 5G OPEN INNOATION LAB.
Future Roadmap
Roadmap-wise, Accuknox's future strategies involve growing its product lines to further identity and entitlement management, and endpoint protection with EDR and MDR features. Furthermore, it also endeavors to emphasize on deepening its solutions in application, network, storage security and customer-driven development (CDD).