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Shujinko announced a major update to AuditX, the system of record for enterprise compliance data. "This update is a major step towards Shujinko's goal of helping enterprises achieve better cloud security by creating a system of record for all compliance data," said Scott Schwan, Co-Founder and CEO at Shujinko.

In addition to achieving the AWS Security Competency status in identity and data protection, the Sonrai Dig platform provides out-of-the-box integration with AWS Control Tower and provides visibility into more than 150 AWS services. The cloud security company also achieved ISV Accelerate status in collaboration with AWS Field and accelerated the security transformation of its joint customers.

Demonstrating its strength in data center and integrated solutions, Ingram Micro is first to market with all-in-one compute - and storage-as-a-service solution sets from Veeam and Zadara. "By bringing Veeam backup and Zadara Cloud Services to market together, we are shortening the sales and deployment cycles for our channel partners around two of the most in-demand solutions - dependable enterprise backup and secure compute and storage cloud services."

Over the past twelve months, CIOs and ITDMs from across the globe have been challenged to accelerate their digital and cloud capabilities while protecting their organizations from a growing list of expanding security threats. To set up their organizations for success in 2021 and beyond, IT leaders have adapted priorities and strategy to focus on core issues including delivering secure collaboration tools to keep distributed workforces productive, maximizing technology investments from the past year, delivering the best end-use experience to employees and customers, embracing cloud and "As a Service," and tackling corporate and societal issues with technology.

Digital Realty announced it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud's global network in five key metros. Direct, low-latency interconnections to Google Cloud are available from 12 locations on Digital Realty's global platform - in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York in North America, and in Düsseldorf, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, and Zürich as well as two distinct locations in Frankfurt within EMEA. In addition, the Digital Realty Internet Exchange supports Google's Direct Peering capabilities and dedicated access to multiple third-party Internet Exchanges on PlatformDIGITAL, providing a direct path from on-premise networks to Google Cloud services.

Computer Services has partnered with Summit Technology Group to modernize and simplify IT infrastructure for its customers by offering a scalable, secure and compliant cloud hosting solution. CSI's cloud hosting solution will provide community financial institutions with a reliable, accessible and compliant IT infrastructure, while optimizing costs.

"The Hobby Lobby incident is the latest example of why we need to take public cloud threat vectors so seriously," said Douglas Murray, CEO at Valtix, told Threatpost. "In 2020, spend in public cloud exceeded spend in on-prem data centers for the first time. The hackers are doing their own version of 'lift and shift' and are aggressively moving to where the market is going. Just as concerning is that for every Hobby Lobby like leak that we learn about, there is another that goes undetected."

Cloud security firm Orca has achieved "Unicorn" status after raising $210 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion. The latest funding, which brings the total raised by Orca to nearly $300 million, was led by CapitalG, the independent growth fund of Google's parent company Alphabet, and Redpoint Ventures.

Baffle announced that its Data Protection Services are now available to enable data de-identification with customer-owned keys for Snowflake Data Cloud. Without any code changes or performance impact on the user experience, Snowflake customers can now leverage Baffle's transparent data protection layer to secure their entire data pipeline as source data is migrated to Snowflake and used for data analytics.

The study, which surveyed 150 IT decision makers across the U.S., found that 65% of respondents saw attempted attacks on their cloud environments, and 80% of those participants' cloud environments were successfully compromised. It quickly became evident that the reliability, availability, and scalability afforded by the cloud have become critical to keep organizations up and running, and cybercriminals are taking notice.