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IBM announced on Wednesday the launch of new and enhanced services to help simplify security for the hybrid cloud. The suite of services will help businesses manage their cloud security strategy, policies and controls across hybrid cloud environments by bringing together cloud-native, IBM and third-party technologies with IBM expertise to assist organizations in the creation of a unified security approach across their cloud ecosystems.

IBM Security announced new and enhanced services designed to help organizations manage their cloud security strategy, policies and controls across hybrid cloud environments. The expanded suite of IBM Security Services for Cloud is designed to help companies adopt a consistent security strategy across their hybrid cloud environments - supported by IBM specialists with expertise to manage native security controls across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure, amongst others.

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.

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.

Accurics launched a channel program designed for partners who share a developer-first approach to cloud security, in tune with the era of Infrastructure as Code. As new cloud native technologies accelerate innovation, bringing both benefits and risk, the Accurics channel program empowers partner organizations to help clients codify security throughout the development lifecycle, facilitating self-healing cloud native infrastructure and ensuring end-to-end security in all cloud applications.

Leveraging the ThreatAlert in-boundary security stack, Bitglass received a FedRAMP Moderate ATO for their Total Cloud Security Platform. "We are excited to see cybersecurity solutions like the Bitglass Cloud Access Security Broker achieve a FedRAMP ATO accreditation on AWS GovCloud," said Gaurav "GP" Pal, CEO, stackArmor, Inc. "The stackArmor ThreatAlert ATO Accelerator for AWS East/West and AWS GovCloud continues to gain rapid market acceptance as it dramatically reduces the time and cost of compliance that is critical for regulated markets."

The Risk Protection Program is designed to help customers reduce cloud security risk and in turn potentially reduce costs by connecting with two of the world's leading insurers for specialized and enhanced cyber insurance designed exclusively for Google Cloud customers. As the use of cloud services increases, expanding to sensitive workloads and new data types, customers more than ever need assurances that their use of cloud services is integrated tightly into their overall risk management program.

Bridgecrew announces they've shifted their security scanning and fixing technology even further left with a new Visual Studio Code extension. "While Bridgecrew's mission is to ensure infrastructure security at every stage of the development lifecycle from code and build, through deployment, and into runtime the earlier you catch issues, the less headaches you'll have later down the road," said Barak Schoster, CTO, Bridgecrew.

To select a suitable cloud security solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. Let's face it, managing security on-premises is hard enough, but add in multiple cloud vendors and platform options, increased threat vectors and attack surfaces - the need for cloud security cannot be overstated.

A new analysis of security risks in cloud deployments found that companies are facing an increased risk of more advanced attacks and struggling to control managed infrastructure options. The Cloud Cyber Resilience Report from Accurics describes how insecure defaults and identity management are causing new problems.