Aggarwal: Accurics and one peer pioneered the shift-left CSPM category
Sachin Aggarwal · The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen · Nov 12, 2025 · at 15:34
Sachin Aggarwal discusses the timing and founding thesis of Accurics, which pioneered shifting cloud security into infrastructure-as-code pipelines before being acquired by Tenable.
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“So, so we were the first ones, we, and they were another startup of similar size. We were the two pioneers in that industry, just two companies pretty much who made money and were very successful. Who took a view that the cloud security has to be shifted left. So we basically were the people who created what we people now know call as shift left CSPM as an, as a segment.”
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