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The Company's patented platform integrates easily within existing security infrastructure to deliver targeted coaching that teaches employees how to identify and remediate cyberattacks while providing security teams with insights that help them better understand the human element of their organization's security posture. SecurityAdvisor's deep integrations with leading cybersecurity vendors, including CrowdStrike, provide visibility across the entire organization for security teams and quantifies security teams' ROI. SecurityAdvisor will use the capital to support product development and drive market awareness of its innovative offering amongst enterprise security leaders.

Offensive Security announced the launch of Windows User Mode Exploit Development, a new course focused on exploit development and reverse engineering techniques. EXP-301 teaches the fundamentals of exploit development, and emphasizes the techniques that security researchers must learn to understand and attack standard Windows protections.

Swimlane announced it has raised $40 million in funding led by EIP. This funding will accelerate partnerships and alliances, expand research and development, and enable further global expansion. For years, companies have focused on threat detection and prevention, with limited investment in innovation to help security staff keep up with their workload. Swimlane stands out in the market for enabling organizations to automate every aspect of their security operations.

Options has announced former NYSE Euronext executive, Kieran Northime as VP of Software Development. Kieran joins Options with three decades of experience across infrastructure, market data and software development, following roles with Wombat Financial Software, Lehman Brothers, Misys, and at NYSE Euronext, where he was VP of Technology, Exchange Solutions.

Application development and maintenance services in the U.S. are evolving to meet changing demands from enterprises that need dynamic applications with rich user interfaces, according to a report published by Information Services Group. Service providers are meeting these requirements through next-generation ADM services, which are incorporating greater use of APIs, microservices, containers, low-code/no-code platforms and cloud-native approaches.

Oracle is making its APEX low-code development platform available as a managed cloud service that developers can use to build data-driven enterprise applications quickly and easily. Oracle APEX Application Development expands on two decades of APEX functionality already used by 500,000 developers as an easy-to-use, browser-based service for creating modern Web and mobile apps.

"2020 lock-downs forced organizations to modernize legacy domain-based approaches to IT infrastructure. That has driven demand for JumpCloud's directory platform, which makes it easier for resource constrained IT teams to adopt a zero trust security model," said Rajat Bhargava, CEO and co-founder of JumpCloud. JumpCloud reimagined the directory to fit the modern world with an open, cloud-based directory for secure, frictionless access from any authorized device to virtually any IT resource, anywhere.

Renesas Electronics Corporation and Sequans Communications announced an expansion of their collaboration to include development of 5G modules based on Sequans' upcoming Taurus 5G platform. Through their expanded 5G relationship, Renesas and Sequans aim to bring together Sequans' 5G modem technology with Renesas' analog front-end FR1/FR2 technology to create a best-in-class combined 5G solution.

Many predictions said we were due for another major cyberattack leading into 2021, but no one foresaw this type of attack and the impact it had, leading to a new focus on security and software development. The compromise of SolarWinds brings into question the security practices of all software developers, including topics such as patching of development machines, outsourcing of code development, control and understanding of code functionality through mergers and employee turnover, code reviews and other techniques to identify security issues and many others.

The first digital risk management platform built for the hybrid cloud, Caveonix RiskForesight dramatically reduces overall cost of compliance by establishing a uniform Risk Management Control Plane that overlays an enterprise's data centers, private clouds, and public cloud deployments. Through this funding, Caveonix will continue expanding in several key areas of product and business development.