oak9
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
oak9 was a Chicago-based cloud-native security platform, co-founded and led by CEO Om Vyas. It specialized in infrastructure-as-code, helping developers build security and compliance into cloud-native applications as they are developed, with a catalog of out-of-the-box blueprints that let customers meet security and compliance objectives on any architecture and any cloud provider. In 2024, it was acquired by compliance automation platform Drata — including all employees and technology — and merged into Drata; oak9's products were sunsetted and customers were moved over to Drata as part of its new 'Compliance as Code' capability, showcased at RSA in May 2024.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Acquired by Drata
Drata announced its acquisition of oak9 (all employees and technology) to power 'Compliance as Code,' sunsetting oak9's products and moving customers over to Drata.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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