Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone as AI Creates a New Security Challenge at the Network Edge

Tel Aviv, Israel, September 2nd, 2026, FinanceWire

AI is changing internet traffic in ways that could force security teams to rethink how they protect applications.

For years, security controls at the network edge were largely designed around a relatively straightforward distinction: legitimate users should get through, while malicious traffic should be blocked. The emergence of autonomous AI agents is making that calculation more complicated, creating new forms of legitimate automated traffic at the same time attackers are using AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities faster.

That changing environment is central to Huskeys' $27 million Series A, led by Blackstone Innovations Investments and first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The funding brings the cybersecurity company's total capital raised to $35 million, including its previous $8 million seed round, as it develops a platform for managing security across increasingly complex network edge environments.

The round also included Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital and SV Angel, along with individual investors including WAF and CAPTCHA inventor Eran Reshef and executives from Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Check Point, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Intel.

AI Is Changing Both Sides of the Security Equation

The growth of AI is creating a challenge that extends beyond traditional malicious automation. Autonomous agents can now interact with applications as legitimate users, creating new patterns of traffic that security systems must understand without unnecessarily blocking them.

At the same time, AI is changing the threat landscape. Attackers are increasingly using AI-driven capabilities to identify and exploit vulnerabilities, increasing the pressure on security teams to detect changes and respond quickly.

That creates a difficult balancing act. Organizations need to reduce their exposure to malicious activity while allowing legitimate customers, users and AI agents to access their applications without disruption.

The problem is compounded by the underlying architecture of modern organizations. Internet-facing applications can rely on multiple cloud providers, CDNs, WAFs and network services, each with different controls and configurations.

Creating a Common Language for the Edge

Huskeys is addressing that complexity through what it calls Network Edge Security Management, or NESM. The platform is designed to provide a unified intelligence and control layer across an organization's existing network infrastructure rather than requiring companies to replace their current technologies.

It connects and orchestrates systems including CDNs, WAFs, cloud-native security solutions and network components such as load balancers, VPCs and security groups.

A central component is Huskeys' patented Unified Data Model, which creates a common layer of understanding across different environments and providers. The company says this allows insights, policies and actions to move across platforms while helping organizations maintain consistent security from the internet edge to the application.

The platform also provides continuous posture assessment, dynamic policy generation and orchestration. Its Virtual Patching capability is designed to allow organizations to mitigate vulnerabilities at the network edge while permanent fixes are developed and deployed within the application.

For a market increasingly defined by autonomous systems, Huskeys is also focused on helping organizations identify and manage agentic traffic.

"We founded Huskeys because security teams are being asked to protect increasingly complex edge environments with legacy tools that were never designed to work together or to address the challenges of the new AI era," said Itai Gafni, CEO and Co-Founder of Huskeys. "Every business today runs through its network edge - that's where your customers, your revenue, and your threats all meet, yet for most organizations, that edge works against them instead of for them. As AI transforms both legitimate traffic and cyberattacks, organizations need an intelligence layer that continuously understands what’s happening across the edge and adapts security in real time. Our goal is to make the network finally work for the business, not against it. That’s the category we’re building.”

A New Category for an Expanding Problem

Huskeys says its customers include TikTok, LEGOLAND, Ro, Blackstone and Hugging Face. The company is already analyzing more than a trillion web requests and thousands of network configurations every day across organizations worldwide.

Blackstone sees the changing structure of internet-facing applications as an opportunity for a different approach to security management.

“The way organizations secure internet-facing applications is fundamentally changing. AI-driven traffic and increasingly fragmented edge environments require a new approach to security management,” said Adam Fletcher, Chief Information Security Officer at Blackstone. “Huskeys has built a platform designed to operate at enterprise scale while advancing a new category for the modern network edge. We believe the company is well positioned to redefine how organizations manage edge security, and we’re excited to support Huskeys as they continue to develop their product in this important category.”

The broader challenge facing organizations is unlikely to be solved simply by adding more tools to an already fragmented security stack. Huskeys is betting that the next step will be building a management layer that can understand the network edge as a connected environment—particularly as AI changes both who, and what, is interacting with internet-facing applications.

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