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As companies recognize the high stakes of a cloud migration and the inherent complexity of these initiatives, they are demanding more services and support from their cloud service and platform providers to successfully migrate business-critical data and workloads to the cloud, the study reveals. Next Pathway polled nearly 1,000 IT professionals and decision makers on their company's status in the cloud migration journey, challenges to the initiative, benefits to migrating and perceptions regarding individual cloud service and platform providers.
Aqua Security announced the availability of its new Aqua Platform, with a unified console to ease the journey from scanning and visibility to workload protection in cloud native environments. The new platform reduces administrative burden and allows security teams to start with scanning and cloud security posture management capabilities, then add in sandboxing capabilities and workload protection as needed.
Trifacta announced the launch and general availability of the pre-built cloud data engineering templates, furthering the acceleration of self-service modern data management. Trifacta's data templates gallery gives users a head start by allowing them to deploy data engineering workflows in minutes that can be tailored to solve specific data challenges in common use cases.
Acronis announced a new advanced protection pack for its service provider solution, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. The new Advanced File Sync and Share pack builds on the essential file-sharing capabilities included in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, layering additional data security capabilities such as blockchain-based data notarization and electronic signatures so service providers can strengthen their workplace collaboration services.
Nintex announced the latest enhancements to its next generation Nintex Workflow Cloud, designed for ops, IT, process professionals and power users to improve the way people work by making it faster and easier to manage, automate, and optimize business processes and workflows. "At Nintex we are continuously reimagining the way people work, providing our global community with practical enhancements to the powerful and easy-to-use Nintex Process Platform so teams can quickly deploy digital workflows, accelerate?their digital transformation, and easily?connect?workflows?to systems of record."
Using 'policy as code' helps the security team to be a cloud highway builder rather than a cloud toll booth operator. The NSA's guidance on mitigating cloud vulnerabilities described misconfiguration as the most common cloud vulnerability.
Netskope revealed new research showing the continued growth of malware delivered by cloud applications and also the potential for critical data exfiltration tied to employees departing their jobs, among a range of increasing cloud application security risks. The findings are part of the July 2021 Netskope Cloud and Threat Report, the latest installment of Netskope Threat Labs' biannual research analyzing critical trends in enterprise cloud service and app use, web and cloud-enabled threats, and cloud data migrations and transfers.
EMQ announced that EMQ X Cloud is now available on Microsoft Azure. EMQ X Cloud is a fully managed MQTT service built on the worldwide used open-source MQTT broker - EMQ X, which has more than 10 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of deployments around the globe.
Spectro Cloud announced the completion of its Series A funding round, amounting to $20M, which is led by Stripes, an investor in software and consumer products. Further, Spectro Cloud will continually focus on adding top engineering talent to improve its product and services for customers - arming them with the features they need to grow and capitalize on technologies that enable them to leverage new innovation for businesses and markets.
As cloud adoption accelerates and the scale of cloud environments grows, engineering and security teams say that risks-and the costs of addressing them-are increasing. The survey of 300 cloud pros found that 36% of organizations suffered a serious cloud security data leak or a breach in the past 12 months, and eight out of ten are worried that they're vulnerable to a major data breach related to cloud misconfiguration.