UPDATED 07:38 EDT / FEBRUARY 14 2014

CloudPassage nets $25.5 million to meet demand for software-defined security

CloudPassage logoSecurity automation specialist CloudPassage announced on Thursday that it has raised $25.5 million in a third round of funding led by existing backer Shasta Ventures, an early-stage VC notable for its investments in a number hugely successful tech firms including Mint and the recently acquired Nest. New investors Meritech Capital Partners and Seagate chief exec Stephen Luczo also participated, along with Tenaya Capital, Benchmark and Musea Ventures.

Founded in 2009, CloudPassage offers a hosted solution designed to simplify security and compliance in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Dubbed Halo, the platform provides centralized controls across data centers and providers, sidestepping traditional interoperability barriers to consistent policy enforcement. The firm says that this vendor-agnostic approach also prevents lock-in and allows for increased transparency even as the underlying infrastructure is modified and extended over time.

To top it all off, Halo includes a built-in analytics engine that can be augmented through integrations with Big Data solutions such as Splunk and HP ArcSight, which was updated earlier this month with IDOL-powered search. CloudPassage claims that that the software protects more than 400 production cloud application deployments, some of which operated by Fortune 1000 companies, and powers 10,000 new cloud workload instances each month.

The firm said that it will use the capital from this week’s round to bolster sales and marketing operators in an effort to keep up with growing enterprise demand. “The combination of agility and immediate scalability make cloud infrastructure a powerful strategy that is being rapidly adopted in every industry,” explained Carson Sweet, the co-founder CEO of CloudPassage. “These same characteristics create complexity for security and compliance. Halo was built to be as scalable, automated and agile as the cloud itself We’re excited to welcome our new investors as we continue to enable enterprise cloud adoption and enter the next phase of our company’s growth.”

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