 Welcome to this CUBE conversation. I'm Lisa Martin. This conversation is part of our third AWS startup showcase for this year. I'm pleased to welcome Knox Anderson, the VP of Product Management at Cystic. Knox, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, Lisa. Talk to me a little bit about Cystic, secure DevOps for containers, Kubernetes and cloud. Give the audience an overview of what you guys do. So Cystic is a secure DevOps platform that provides observability, security, and compliance functions for anyone that's adopting Kubernetes and cloud. We really secure the entire lifecycle from source to production. So do things like scan your ISE for misconfiguration, monitor your runtime environments for threats and operational best practices. We provide a lot of capabilities around Prometheus monitoring as well. And then also let organizations perform incident response and compliance audits against these environments. So founder in 2013, talk to me about the gap in the market that you guys saw back then and what some of the key challenges are that you saw for your customers. Yeah, so we came to market around the same time as containers and Kubernetes. And let's say 2015 to 2018, we kept on saying it's the year of Kubernetes, it's the year of Kubernetes, it's the year of Kubernetes. And then really during the last year and a half in the COVID pandemic, Kubernetes has gone gangbusters. Every major cloud is seeing a huge adoption in their Kubernetes services. And so that's really our wedge into a lot of organizations. They're changing their platform to take advantages of containers and Kubernetes. And you really have to rethink all of your security tooling. And that's when a company like Cystic comes in. Talk to me about customers in terms of, especially in the last year and a half when things have been so dynamic, we've seen so much too on the threat landscape front changing. Give me an example of a customer too that you've really helped with solve some of their major challenges here. Yeah, a great customer that we work with is SAP Concur and they kind of encompass a lot of the things that are nice about modern DevOps. So it's a DevOps team that's running a Kubernetes platform that thousands of developers are building their apps and deploying those onto. And they chose Cystic because really it's not scalable to have every single dev team ping that DevOps team and say, what's the performance of my service? How is it responding? How can I get scanning integrated with that? And so they use Cystic as a platform that allows developers to easily onboard onto their Kubernetes clusters and then ensure that they're meeting compliance needs and FedRAMP needs for that platform that they deliver their core business apps on. Let's talk about the Cystic's commitment to open source and the FALCO project. So FALCO is a open source project that we started at Cystic. It's built on top of our core system call instrumentation. And so FALCO meets a lot of your IDS or your file integrity monitoring requirements that you might have as you move to Kubernetes. And really it's something we started about 2016. In 2019, we donated that project to the CNCS which is the same governance body behind Kubernetes, Prometheus, and other kind of core building blocks of the cloud-needed ecosystem. Since then, it's grown immensely. Companies like Shopify are using it to make sure that their PCI apps that they run Kubernetes are fully compliant. And so it's something that we are constantly contributing to the community also from even companies like AWS is a core contributor to the FALCO project. And I'm really excited to see where it goes over the next year as FALCO extends to also cover some cloud security use cases. What can you tell me about the relationship that Cystic and AWS have? They've been a great partner. We internally run our SaaS on AWS. So we're using AWS services to deliver our product to our customers. And then we've also really worked closely around how you can provide better security for services like Fargate. So we did working sessions with their engineering teams, learned what we could do to get the visibility that we need for tools like FALCO and Cystic to work seamlessly in Fargate environments. And last April, we're able to kind of AWS release that new functionality Cystic built on top of that. And I've already seen great adoption of customers using the Cystic product on top of Fargate. Excellent. Well, thank you so much, Knox, for stopping by theCUBE, telling us about Cystic, what you guys are doing ahead of the AWS startup showcase. We appreciate your time and your information. Thanks for having me. For Knox Anderson, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching this CUBE Conversation.