Arctic Wolf Networks raises $45 million for cloud SOC platform

Arctic Wolf argues that its model is more economical given the shortage of cybersecurity skills and “cost-prohibitive nature” for an organization to build its own SOC.

Arctic Wolf Networks, a company that sells a “SOC-as-a-service” platform, announced on Thursday that it raised $45 million Series C funding.

The company provides a cloud-based security operations center (SOC), which gives customers access to Arctic Wolf’s AI-dirven threat detection platform as well as its “Concierge Security Engineers.”

The offering is meant to give customers threat detection capabilities without having to built their own on-premise SOC. Arctic Wolf argues that this approach is more economical given the shortage of cybersecurity skills and “cost-prohibitive nature” of building a SOC from scratch.

CEO and co-founder Brian NeSmith said in a press release that the new funding will go toward further developing Arctic Wolf’s vulnerability assessment and endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities.

“Our growing team of security engineers is redefining the economics of security to protect companies of all sizes,” NeSmith said in a press release. “In addition to supporting continued company growth, the funding will accelerate expansion of our service offering, as we continue to scale and expand to meet our customers’ individualized needs.”

Based in Sunnyvale, California, Arctic Wolf boasts its staff has doubled in the past year and that its customer base has more than doubled year-over-year since it was founded in 2012.

The funding round was led by Future Fund with participation from Adams Street, Unusual Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sonae Investment Management and Knollwood Investment Advisory LLC.

The SOC-as-a-service model is one that the federal government is reportedly exploring as a way to provide shared cybersecurity services to agency networks.

Government

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Technology

• FCC proposes public scorecard to rate telecoms on anti-robocall efforts

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• Wyden seeks upgraded NSA security guidance on commercial VPN use

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Threats

• Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days

• Microsoft discloses two actively exploited zero-days among 974 vulnerabilities

• Russian national extradited to US for alleged involvement in bank-account takeover scheme

• Attackers exploit zero-days in consistently besieged SonicWall product

Policy

• Whistleblower says USPS deploying new, ‘untested’ IT systems governing mail-in ballots

• ‘Watershed 250’ test program in Texas looks to private sector for water cybersecurity help

• Former sexual abuse victims say Grok used their images, videos to train deepfake capabilities

• Cyber threats nudge Trump to sign executive order on foreign equipment in U.S. energy infrastructure