Redlock

Redlock is a cloud-native security provider focused on monitoring, analyzing, and enforcing security posture and compliance across public cloud environments.

• Continuous monitoring of public cloud infrastructure for configuration risks and policy violations (cloud security posture management).
• Detection and analysis of threats and anomalous activity within cloud workloads and accounts (cloud workload and account security).
• Compliance assessment against common regulatory and industry frameworks for cloud deployments (governance, risk, and compliance).
• Visualization of cloud assets, network relationships, and data flows for security investigation and auditing (cloud asset visibility).
• Integration of cloud security findings into existing Security Operations (SecOps) and DevOps workflows (security operations and DevSecOps enablement).

More About Redlock

Redlock operates in the cloud security domain, with offerings that focus on securing resources hosted on major public cloud platforms. Its technology is typically used by enterprises that run workloads across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments and need continuous visibility into configuration, access, and activity within those environments. The core positioning aligns with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), threat detection in cloud accounts, and support for governance and compliance programs.

The platform ingests configuration and activity data from cloud providers’ control planes and services. It analyzes this data against security policies, compliance benchmarks, and threat detection models to identify misconfigurations, risky access patterns, and potentially malicious behavior. This approach allows security and infrastructure teams to detect issues such as overly permissive access controls, exposed storage, weak network controls, and suspicious account activity without requiring agents on every workload.

Redlock’s capabilities are designed to support enterprise SecOps, cloud platform teams, and compliance stakeholders. Typical integrations include links into Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems (SIEM) (security operations), ticketing and workflow tools (IT service management), and DevOps or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) pipelines (DevSecOps). These integrations help route findings into existing investigation, remediation, and change-management processes rather than creating a separate operational silo.

From an architectural perspective, Redlock uses API-based connectivity to cloud providers rather than relying primarily on host-level agents. This method aligns with the way cloud-native platforms expose telemetry and configuration metadata and allows centralized analysis of accounts, projects, and subscriptions across multiple regions and providers. The system maps cloud assets, network paths, and associated identities to provide context for policy violations and threats, which aids in prioritization and remediation planning.

In marketplace taxonomies, Redlock fits under CSPM, cloud visibility and compliance, and cloud threat detection. It is relevant for organizations moving from traditional perimeter-focused security to models that rely on identity, configuration, and continuous monitoring in distributed cloud environments. Its focus on posture, governance, and incident detection positions it as a tool that complements endpoint security, traditional network security, and on-premises (on-prem) compliance platforms by addressing control-plane and configuration risks in public cloud infrastructure.