# Lacework

**Source:** https://geo.sig.ai/brands/lacework  
**Vertical:** Security  
**Subcategory:** Cloud Security  
**Tier:** Emerging  
**Website:** lacework.com  
**Last Updated:** 2026-04-14

## Summary

Cloud security platform with behavioral anomaly detection for multi-cloud environments; acquired by Fortinet (FTNT) in October 2024 after $1.9B raised competing with Wiz and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud.

## Company Overview

Lacework is a cloud security platform providing automated threat detection, vulnerability management, and compliance monitoring for cloud-native infrastructure — using behavioral analytics and machine learning (its Polygraph technology) to establish normal baseline behavior across cloud workloads, containers, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud environments, then detect anomalous activity that indicates compromise without requiring manually written detection rules. Founded in 2015 in Mountain View and backed by approximately $1.9 billion in total funding from investors including Sutter Hill Ventures, Tiger Global, and General Catalyst, Lacework merged with Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) in October 2024.

Lacework's Polygraph automatically builds a behavior model for each environment — understanding what processes normally run, what network connections are normal, what user behavior is typical — and alerts on deviations that indicate potential attacks (unusual process execution, lateral movement, data exfiltration patterns) without requiring security engineers to write and maintain hundreds of detection rules. This "detect anomalies automatically" approach differs from rule-based SIEM approaches and scales better as cloud infrastructure grows in complexity.

Fortinet acquired Lacework in October 2024, integrating the cloud-native workload protection and CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) capabilities into Fortinet's network security portfolio alongside FortiGate firewalls, FortiSIEM, and FortiSOAR. The acquisition creates a more complete cloud and network security platform. In 2025, the combined Lacework/Fortinet offering competes in the CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform) market with Wiz (the fastest-growing cloud security company), Orca Security, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, and CrowdStrike Falcon for cloud infrastructure security. Wiz's rapid growth ($500M+ ARR) and high valuation (reportedly targeting $15B IPO or higher) has attracted Microsoft acquisition interest as well, indicating how strategically valuable cloud security positions have become.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is Lacework?
Lacework Lacework serves enterprises as cloud security platform with $1.3B valuation, Fortinet acquisition 2024, following 2015 Sanjay Kalra founding

### When was Lacework founded?
Lacework was founded in 2015 in Mountain View, California. Sanjay Kalra, Vikram Kapoor, and Dan Hubbard founded Lacework in Mountain View in 2015 with behavioral anomaly detection for cloud security, reached $1.3B valuation before Fortinet acquisition in 2024.

### What are Lacework's major milestones?
Lacework's history includes several key milestones: 2015: Lacework Founded Mountain View 2020: Series D $525M Funding 2021: Series E $1.3B Valuation 2024: Fortinet Acquisition

### What is Lacework's mission?
Lacework's mission is to Automate cloud security through behavioral anomaly detection and AI.

### Who founded Lacework?
Lacework was founded by Sanjay Kalra. Security veterans who built cloud security with behavioral anomaly detection

### What products or services does Lacework offer?
Lacework Lacework serves enterprises as cloud security platform with $1.3B valuation, Fortinet acquisition 2024, following 2015 Sanjay Kalra founding

### Who uses Lacework?
Lacework Lacework serves enterprises as cloud security platform with $1.3B valuation, Fortinet acquisition 2024, following 2015 Sanjay Kalra founding

### What happened when Lacework merged with Fortinet?
Lacework merged with Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) in October 2024 — joining the cloud security specialist with Fortinet's broad network security platform and 700,000+ enterprise customers. The acquisition followed a period of significant valuation pressure for Lacework: after raising funds at a $8.3 billion valuation in 2021 (one of the largest cybersecurity VC rounds in history), the company's revenue growth slowed in 2022-2023 as the enterprise security market tightened, resulting in multiple rounds of layoffs and a dramatically lower acquisition price. Under Fortinet, Lacework's cloud workload protection and behavioral anomaly detection capabilities are being integrated into Fortinet's Security Fabric platform, providing Fortinet's existing customer base with cloud-native security capabilities that complement Fortinet's traditional network security products.

## Tags

b2b, cloud-native, cybersecurity, saas, security, unicorn

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*Data from geo.sig.ai Brand Intelligence Database. Updated 2026-04-14.*