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Israel-based cloud security company Lightspin announced on Tuesday that it has emerged from stealth mode with $4 million in seed funding. Lightspin provides what it describes as a contextual cloud security platform designed to help organizations protect cloud-native applications, Kubernetes and microservices.
Google Cloud announced it has been selected by ABB to further expand the cloud footprint of its Information System services. The Swiss-headquartered global technology leader has chosen Google Cloud as part of the organization's 'Rationalizing IT Operations' initiative, which seeks to further increase the scalability and resilience of its infrastructure services to all ABB businesses.
ScaleMP announced the general availability of its patented vSMP Foundation Version 10.0 line of products, after months of technology preview use at select customers and partners. Support for Azure Cloud and Oracle Cloud is expected by year end.
Open Raven launched the Open Raven Cloud-Native Data Protection Platform to operationalize data security and privacy in the cloud. To prevent data breaches, it automates asset discovery and data classification, provides real-time mapping and policy-driven protection for Amazon Web Services and S3. The Open Raven Platform is generally available today.
Announced last month, MVISION CNAPP is a new McAfee security service that combines Cloud Security Posture Management, Cloud Workload Protection Platform, and application and data security into one solution. CNAPP integrates with several AWS deployment services such as AWS Systems Manager and AWS PrivateLink to make deployment easier and more secure, as well as security services like AWS Security Hub with broader workload and data context for enhanced security.
Tufin announced it will integrate with AWS Network Firewall, a new managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all Amazon Virtual Private Clouds on Amazon Web Services, on-premise data centers and other cloud platforms for full visibility across the enterprise. "AWS is a very important cloud provider for our customers today and into the future, which is why we are excited to expand our collaboration and be a Launch Partner for AWS Network Firewall," said Pamela Cyr, Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development, Tufin.
IT and security professionals were surveyed to understand their top security concerns and identify the actions that enterprises are taking to protect data in the cloud. 93% of respondents were moderately to extremely concerned about the security of the public cloud.
Saviynt announced the general availability of their latest platform release, named Saviynt 2020. Designed to support the modern enterprise IT landscape, Saviynt 2020 is already helping 1.6M users at major global organizations manage risk, scale cloud initiatives, and maintain regulatory compliance.
IBM Cloud Monitoring with Sysdig, which uses Sysdig Monitor, is already the default monitoring solution used by IBM and offered to IBM Cloud customers when onboarding. With this addition of Sysdig Secure, the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform is tightly integrated with IBM Cloud to provide customers end-to-end monitoring and security capabilities.
Almost all the professionals who responded to a survey from BitGlass were concerned about the security of their public cloud apps and data. A new report from security firm BitGlass describes some of the security concerns with the cloud and offers advice to IT and security professionals.