Security News > 2021 > February > Rapid7 acquires Alcide.IO to extend cloud security

IO. This is the second acquisition Rapid7 has made in the cloud security market in the past nine months, having acquired DivvyCloud, a leader in Cloud Security Posture Management this past April.

Together, these acquisitions will enhance Rapid7's ability to provide a cloud native security platform to its customers and facilitate continuous management of risk and compliance across their cloud environments.

Rapid7 provides one of the most comprehensive security operations platforms in the market today, with a broad set of best-of-breed capabilities across SIEM-based incident detection and response, vulnerability management, application security and security orchestration, automation and response.

With this acquisition, Rapid7 will expand and strengthen its cloud security offering, bringing together Alcide's cloud workload protection capabilities with the company's existing cloud security posture management and infrastructure entitlements capabilities, to provide customers with a more holistic, unified experience for managing the challenges of cloud-native application security.

"Kubernetes is quickly becoming the preferred platform for automating deployment, scaling, and managing containerized applications. In order to take full advantage of the speed and innovation Kubernetes can unlock for an organization, security needs to be tightly integrated without getting in the way," said Brian Johnson, senior vice president of cloud security at Rapid7.

"We are excited to join Rapid7 not only because of our shared commitment to providing customers with innovative and accessible cloud security solutions, but this also gives us an opportunity to bring our market-leading Kubernetes security platform to a broader set of customers."

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