What Prevasio does

Prevasio is an early-stage cloud security company founded in 2020 and based in Sydney, Australia, with a distributed co-founding team (Sergei Shevchenko as CTO, Oscar Marquez as CEO, and Rony Moshkovich as CPO). The company has built proprietary dynamic sandbox technology capable of analyzing container images at scale, most notably demonstrated through Operation Red Kangaroo, a world-first dynamic scan of all 4 million public Docker Hub images that identified approximately 6,000 malicious containers and over 400 cross-platform malware samples. Prevasio has productized this capability into an agentless CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform) integrated with CloudFlow, designed to deliver continuous cloud risk discovery across AWS, Azure, and GCP without requiring agent deployment.

The company's public-facing presence is anchored at prevasio.io, which operates as a cybersecurity awareness and education content platform publishing weekly Threat Insights analyses, DevSecOps guides, and educational resources on cloud security, malware analysis, game security, AI defense, and incident response. Content is primarily authored under the name Arjun Mehta, a separate identity from the three co-founders listed in the funding data, creating a notable inconsistency in the available source material. The platform maintains a Slack community hub and pursues a content-led go-to-market strategy targeting security engineers, analysts, IT leaders, and general cybersecurity audiences.

Prevasio's business model is ambiguous across the source data. The content platform is free with no pricing disclosed, while the CNAPP product has no publicly available pricing tiers or customer list. Total disclosed funding is $1.1M across three seed/pre-seed rounds between March 2020 and December 2021, with investors including CyRise and Released Ventures Pty Ltd. The company operates with 1-10 employees, has no disclosed revenue, and its commercial product is in early-stage commercialization with no named enterprise customers, contracts, or ARR figures available.

Name

Prevasio

Legal name

Prevasio

Website

https://prevasio.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Prevasio is an early-stage cloud security company that built dynamic container sandboxing technology and productized it into an agentless CNAPP for AWS, Azure, and GCP. The team also operates a free cybersecurity awareness content platform serving security engineers and IT leaders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cybersecurity Education

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

DevSecOps, Cloud Security Automation & Policy-as-Code (HDABAHAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Security Managed Services (CSPM/CWPP/CNAPP) (BPAEADAF), Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI)

Keywords

• Cloud security
• Threat intelligence
• Cybersecurity education
• DevSecOps
• Incident response

Headquarters

HQ city

Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Content/Community Platform: Prevasio operates as a free cybersecurity awareness and education platform. Revenue generation model appears to be indirect - building audience and authority in cybersecurity space, potentially monetizing through consulting, sponsored content, or future premium offerings. The platform serves security engineers, analysts, IT leaders, and cybersecurity enthusiasts with educational content.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Prevasio operates a cybersecurity awareness and education content platform that publishes articles, threat analyses, and expert insights on cloud security, DevSecOps, game security, threat intelligence, AI defense, and incident response. The platform is built on proprietary technology including a Dynamic Sandbox Analysis System for container image analysis and an agentless CNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform) integrated with CloudFlow for cloud risk discovery across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Product overview

Prevasio.io is a cybersecurity awareness and education content platform — not a software product company. It does not offer a multi-module SaaS platform or distinct product lines. Its sole offering is a publicly accessible blog/content website that publishes expert articles, threat analysis reports, and educational guides authored by Arjun Mehta, covering cloud security, DevSecOps, game security, threat intelligence, AI-driven cyber defense, network security, data privacy compliance, and incident response. There are no named product modules, separate product lines, add-ons, or commercial software offerings described across the sourced pages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Prevasio.io Content Platform Prevasio.io is a cybersecurity awareness and education content platform that publishes articles, guides, threat analyses, and expert insights across domains including cloud security, DevSecOps, game security, threat intelligence, AI defense, and incident response. The platform is authored by Arjun Mehta and serves security engineers, analysts, IT leaders, and general audiences seeking practical cybersecurity knowledge.

Quantifiable outcome

• 51% of Docker Hub images contained critical vulnerabilities, 13% high vulnerabilities, 4% moderate - demonstrating widespread supply chain risk
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Snyk: Snyk addresses developer security (SCA, IaC, container, code) with a DevSecOps-first positioning that closely mirrors Prevasio's DevSecOps coverage and agentless container scanning ethos.
• Orca Security: Orca built its CNAPP around agentless, sideScanning technology with multi-cloud coverage. Prevasio's agentless CloudFlow integration uses the same architectural premise (no in-guest agent) and addresses the same buyer need (full cloud estate visibility).
• Sysdig: Sysdig offers CNAPP with runtime container detection (Falco) and vulnerability management across multi-cloud. Prevasio's runtime behavior capture inside the dynamic sandbox mirrors Sysdig's runtime detection approach on the same problem set.
• Lacework: Lacework is a CNAPP that combines CSPM, CWPP, and behavioral anomaly detection for cloud workloads. Prevasio's runtime payload analysis and cryptominer/backdoor detection directly overlaps Lacework's cloud-workload threat-detection surface.
• Aqua Security: Aqua pioneered dynamic container security and built one of the original CNAPP platforms. Prevasio's Operation Red Kangaroo dynamic sandbox is a direct functional analog to Aqua's dynamic analysis, and both target the same Kubernetes/container supply-chain risk.
• Wiz: Wiz is the category-defining agentless CNAPP scanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Prevasio's agentless CNAPP with CloudFlow integration targets the same buyer (cloud security teams) with the same architectural approach (no agent deployment) and overlapping feature scope (CSPM, posture, vulnerability).

Broad incumbents

• CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security: CrowdStrike bundles cloud security posture and workload protection (via the acquired Bionic / Adaptive Shield) into the Falcon platform. Prevasio is a comparable cloud-security product operating in the same procurement vector as CrowdStrike's cloud module.
• Palo Alto Prisma Cloud: Prisma Cloud is the broadest enterprise CNAPP portfolio spanning CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, IaC, and SOC capabilities across all major clouds. Prevasio competes for the same CNAPP budget but as a focused niche player rather than a full-stack suite.
• Tenable Cloud Security: Tenable Cloud Security (formerly Ermetic + Accurics) delivers CNAPP alongside Tenable's vulnerability management franchise. Like Prevasio, it combines cloud posture with vulnerability analysis; Tenable is the broader incumbent version.
• Trend Micro Cloud One: Trend Micro Cloud One provides workload, container, and posture security across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Prevasio's multi-cloud CNAPP targets the same buyer baseline (enterprise SOCs standardizing on a single cloud security vendor) within an established incumbent's portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/prevasio

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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