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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Knox lands $6.5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market
While highly sought after, federal software contracts frequently come with a hidden cost: Achieving government SaaS security compliance, known as FedRAMP, can take years and require substantial resources. Achieving this certification typically takes up to three years and costs more than $3 million, covering everything from security operations engineer salaries to security audits, according to Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox. Denisenko (pictured above, second from right) launched Knox, a federal managed cloud provider, last year with a mission to help software vendors speed through this security authorization process in just three months, and at a fraction of what it would cost to do it on their own. On Thursday, Knox said it has raised a $6.5 million seed round led by Felicis, with participation from Ridgeline and FirsthandVC. Denisenko decided to embark on this journey after she learned first-hand the challenges of obtaining FedRAMP. Class, an education startup where she served as COO, had secured a contract to sell its software to the U.S. Air Force. And instead of waiting three years and spending millions, Denisenko helped buy CoSo Cloud, a company that was already FedRAMP certified and was managing Adobe's federal cloud. The acquisition helped Class receive FedRAMP certification in just six months. 'Class would still be getting FedRAMP today' if it had tried to obtain the clearance on its own, Denisenko told TechCrunch. And late last year, when it became clear that the proliferation of AI agents was becoming a national security concern, Denisenko decided to spin out the managed cloud solution into a standalone startup, Knox. Companies that can afford FedRAMP certificaiton include large software vendors like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Salesforce, Denisenko told TechCrunch. And as the government increasingly adopts more software, she hopes Knox can help SaaS vendors gain FedRAMP to access government contracts more easily. Knox, named after a giant gold storage fort in Kentucky, essentially provides a compliance management platform via a managed cloud that customers can connect their codebase to. The company's software runs a continuous series of tests and audits to identify where the customer's infrastructure, code and security controls are falling short of FedRAMP standards, and either remediates those issues itself or flags them to the customer. It also offers some non-software tools to track and verify policies like personnel training and vendor management. 'This stuff is legitimately very hard and very risky,' she said. 'We will bear the risk.' Knox is already handling security and compliance for Adobe, Class, Spacelift, and an LLM provider. 'We'll end the year with well north of a dozen customers live in the cloud,' Denisenko said. While FedRAMP authorization management may seem like a niche offering, Knox has one large competitor: Palantir. Palantir's offering, called FedStart, was introduced only two years ago, and since then, the giant data analysis platform has brought on the likes of Anthropic and Windsurf as clients. For Denisenko, Palantir's early success with FedRAMP only validates Knox's mission. 'Even anthropic couldn't figure this out on their own,' she said, adding that going forward, software companies will want to outsource their FedRAMP compliance to a company like Knox. Sign in to access your portfolio
Reuters
19-02-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Predators trade for F Grigori Denisenko, rule out D Jeremy Lauzon for season
February 19 - The Nashville Predators acquired forward Grigori Denisenko from the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday in exchange for future considerations. In another move Tuesday, the Predators ruled out defenseman Jeremy Lauzon for the rest of the season with a lower-body injury. Lauzon missed 10 games with the injury in November and December, returned to action and aggravated it Dec. 31, sidelining him ever since. He was placed on injured reserve on Jan. 6. The team changed his recovery timeline to four to six months on Tuesday. Denisenko, 24, played in one game this season and six last season for the Golden Knights, totaling four penalty minutes. He played 26 games for the Florida Panthers over parts of three seasons (2020-23) and totaled seven assists and eight penalty minutes. The Panthers selected Denisenko with the 15th overall pick of the 2018 NHL draft. The Russian native has 10 goals, 14 assists and 36 penalty minutes in 42 games this season for Vegas' AHL affiliate Henderson. Lauzon, 27, has one assist, 37 penalty minutes, 34 blocks and 127 hits while averaging 17:58 of ice time in 28 games this season. He has career totals of 14 goals, 31 assists, 353 penalty minutes, 374 blocks and 1,132 hits in 316 regular-season games for the Boston Bruins (2018-21), Seattle Kraken (2021-22) and Predators (2022-present). He set the NHL single-season record with 383 hits last season. --Field Level Media Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Vegas Golden Knights Trade Grigori Denisenko To Nashville Predators
The Nashville Predators and Vegas Golden Knights announced they have completed a trade, with Vegas sending AHL forward Grigori Denisenko to Nashville in exchange for future considerations. Denisenko has 10 goals and 24 points in 42 games this season and represented the Pacific Division at the 2025 AHL All-Star Game. He went pointless in one NHL game. The 24-year-old was assigned to Nashville's AHL affiliate Milwaukee Admirals after the trade. 🔁 TRADE: we've acquired forward Grigori Denisenko from Vegas in exchange for future considerations. Full details » — Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) February 18, 2025 The Novosibirsk, RUS., native was originally selected 15th overall by the Florida Panthers in the 2018 draft, Denisenko has no goals and seven assists in 33 career NHL games. Denisenko will get the chance to play meaningful games down the stretch as goes from the Henderson Silver Knights who are second last in the Pacific Division to the Milwaukee Admirals who sit atop the Central Division. A talented offensive player, Denisenko has 56 goals and 143 points in 208 career AHL games with the Syracuse Crunch, Charlotte Checkers, and Henderson. Make sure you bookmark The Hockey News' AHL Page for the latest news, exclusive interviews, breakdowns and so much more.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Predators Trade: Former Top Panthers Prospect Acquired for Free
The Vegas Golden Knights traded prospect forward Grigori Denisenko to the Nashville Predators for future considerations, the Predators announced Tuesday. Denisenko, 24, is a highly skilled Russian forward who was drafted 15th overall by the Florida Panthers in the 2018 NHL Draft. Spending two years in the KHL after being drafted, Denisenko made the leap to North America in the 2020-21 season but has yet to stick at the NHL level. 🔁 TRADE: we've acquired forward Grigori Denisenko from Vegas in exchange for future considerations. Full details » — Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) February 18, 2025 In the last five seasons, the newest Predators forward has managed to play in just 33 NHL games, recording zero goals and seven assists. Denisenko has, however, proven to be a prolific player at the AHL level, recording 56 goals, 87 assists, and 143 points in 208 games. The former Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ace struggles with discipline, too, as he's piled up 135 penalty minutes and a minus-61 rating in his AHL career thus far. It is unclear if or when Denisenko will see NHL minutes with the Predators; he played one game with Vegas this season back on Nov. 13, taking one penalty in 8:27 of ice time. With Gustav Nyquist injured and Jeremy Lauzon done for the year, Barry Trotz and the Predators could do worse than to take a flier on a 24-year-old former top draft pick for free. Some of Nashville's lone bright spots this season have been their young forwards. Youngsters like Fedor Svechkov, Zach L'Heureux, and Luke Evangelista have nailed down NHL roster spots, while prospects like Ozzy Wiesblatt and Joakim Kemell have factored in as well. As it stands, Denisenko, Vitali Kravstov, and Ty Dellandrea are the only players chosen in the top 15 of the 2018 draft to have played fewer than 200 NHL regular season games. With Kravtsov (64) nearly doubling Denisenko's career NHL appearances, the Predators' latest trade acquisition is comfortably at the bottom of that list. Now, it's up to the Predators and the Milwaukee Admirals' coaching staff to see if they can coax out some of the talent that made Denisenko a top draft pick seven years ago. If not, Denisenko, a Group 6 unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2024-25 season, could instead opt to return home to the KHL. Visit The Hockey News Nashville Predators team site to stay updated on the latest Predators news, game day coverage, player features, podcasts, and more.
