Kubernetes has gone from experiment to essential — powering everything from fintech apps to telecom infrastructure and government services. But as environments scale, so do threats. By design, containers spin up and vanish within seconds, and attackers are taking advantage. According to the Sysdig Threat Research Team, attacks happen within 10 minutes. AI-driven tools only further reduce the time it takes to exploit cloud environments.
For organizations operating in highly regulated industries like financial services, telecommunications, energy providers, manufacturing, or public services, these dynamics introduce major challenges: How do you secure something that’s constantly changing and evolving? That’s exactly the problem Conoa and Sysdig have come together to address and solve.
After years of growing collaboration, Conoa, a Swedish specialist and consultant for cloud-native infrastructures, and Sysdig, a global leader in runtime cloud security, are now officially announcing their strategic partnership. By combining Conoa’s Kubernetes and container platform expertise with Sysdig’s real-time detection and response technology, customers get a streamlined, proven path to securing their cloud-native environments and confidently address an ever-evolving landscape of opportunities, regulations and threat actors.
Two pioneers in container technology join forces
Conoa, founded in 2012 in Stockholm, is deeply rooted in the Nordic IT landscape. Conoa was one of the first companies in Sweden to support companies on their journey to containerization. Today, the company is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) and Kubernetes Training Partner (KTP) – with a clear focus on IT security and specifically DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and open source. Since 2021, Conoa is part of Proact, which operates in 12 European countries and employs over 1,200 people.
Sysdig, founded by Loris Degioanni, co-founder of Wireshark, is a global company on a mission to secure and accelerate innovation in the cloud. A company of builders, Sysdig set the standard for cloud threat detection with the creation of the open-source tool Falco, now a CNCF-graduated project with over 150 million downloads and used by 60 % of the Fortune 500. From threat detection and response to prevention, Sysdig strengthens cyber resilience by detecting threats in real time, accelerating incident response, and reducing the attack surface. The Sysdig cloud security platform correlates signals across cloud workloads, identities, and services to enable teams to prioritize risks and act decisively. Rooted in securing the cloud the right way, Sysdig customers have access to Sysdig Sage, the world’s first AI-based chat assistant for cloud security that is speeding vulnerability management by 10x.
From personal network to strategic alliance
While the announcement of an official strategic partnership is new, the relationship isn’t. Teams from both companies have worked together for years on customer projects, building trust and refining a joint offering grounded in real-world experience. These connections laid the foundation for a cooperation that has grown organically over the years, through projects and trust.
“The partnership with Conoa doesn’t feel like a classic channel deal,” explains Sandor Klein, VP and General Manager EMEA at Sysdig. ”It’s more like we’re colleagues that work together as a team toward one goal: helping our customers succeed. We communicate with each other every day, we make decisions together, and this means: faster responses, better solutions, and a seamless experience for the people who trust us with their cloud security. Combining our knowledge and resources enables us to level-up cloud security for our customers in the most efficient and effective way possible and tackle their needs head on.”
It’s not just about business relationships and selling licences – it’s about reliability and trust, developed over years and different joint projects. We know we can rely on each other. That’s a crucial difference. The goal of our partnership is to forward this sentiment to our customers and to ensure they get real value.
Kenneth Albinsson, CTO of Conoa and Proact Sweden
What customers get: Seamless, scalable security
For many customers, such as those in regulated industries, it is crucial that security mechanisms such as runtime monitoring, image scanning, and policy enforcement can be seamlessly integrated into existing DevOps pipelines. Combined with Conoa’s hands-on architecture and consulting support, customers get:
- Integrated security from development through production
- Faster deployments with less friction between DevOps and SecOps
- Clear visibility into security posture across the environment
- Reduced complexity with a unified toolset and coordinated delivery team
Kenneth Albinsson describes the advantage as follows: “We’re giving customers a single, streamlined security experience. That saves time, reduces headaches, and provides real transparency.”
A blueprint for future partnerships
The nature of the collaboration and the mutual trust that has been built up have been so beneficial for both companies that they want to build future partnerships along the same lines: “Internally, we also refer to this as the ‘Conoa model,’” says Sandor Klein. “It’s the blueprint for the kind of partnerships we want to establish worldwide: locally anchored, technologically strong, and based on mutual trust.”
This opens up exciting prospects for companies in the Nordics: anyone looking for a strategic partner for container security can now draw on a well-coordinated team of tech specialists and security experts who have proven what successful cloud security partnerships can look like.
Conclusion: Technological expertise and trusting cooperation with substance
The collaboration between Conoa and Sysdig demonstrates what modern partnerships in the IT sector are all about: not just product knowledge, but mutual trust, lived open-source values, and a deep understanding of the challenges facing customers. For companies navigating container adoption, cloud transformation, or regulatory pressures, this partnership offers a clear path towards best in class security. Together, Sysdig and Conoa are creating a security ecosystem that not only protects cloud environment, but also helps companies and organizations of all kinds move confidently, securely, and scalably into the digital future.
Further information:
- Conoa AB: www.conoa.se
- Sysdig: www.sysdig.com
- Proact Group: www.proact.eu