Red Hat To Bolster Kubernetes Security Capabilities With StackRox Acquisition Red Hat looks to accelerate the adoption of container technology and its OpenShift hybrid cloud platform with the expanded security that StackRox will bring to cloud applications. By Rick Whiting January 07, 2021, 07:09 PM EST Open-software powerhouse Red Hat has struck a deal to buy StackRox, a developer of container and Kubernetes-native security that Red hat will use to boost the security capabilities of the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud platform. The acquisition comes as the adoption of container technology in general – and Kubernetes in particular – for cloud-native applications within production IT environments is accelerating.