Security News > 2021 > February > Palo Alto Networks Buys Bridgecrew in ‘Shift Left’ Cloud Security Push

Palo Alto Networks on Tuesday snapped up early-stage startup Bridgecrew, adding a cloud security platform for developers to its $3.4 billion-a-year enterprise product portfolio.

For Palo Alto, the deal is part of a strategy to spend big to snap up early-stage companies in the cloud security and DevOps workflow space.

The Bridgecrew deal follows a $420 million purchase of CloudGenix last March and a separate $173 million deal to buy Redlock, both cloud security specialist plays.

Bridgecrew's security platform, which includes the Checkov open-source scanner, offers developers and DevOps teams a systematic way to enforce infrastructure security standards throughout the development lifecycle.

"Shift left security is a must-have in any cloud security platform. Developers don't want to wait until runtime to find out their security is not working, and the CISO charged with protecting the entire organization certainly values higher security from fixing issues earlier in the development lifecycle," said Palo Alto chief executive Nikesh Arora.

Prisma Cloud is Palo Alto's security platform that sells into the enterprise cloud security posture management and cloud workload protection platform categories.

News URL

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/_ZGA7TfPOtY/palo-alto-networks-buys-bridgecrew-%E2%80%98shift-left%E2%80%99-cloud-security-push