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In an effort to grow its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, IBM announced on Tuesday that it was acquiring Polar Security, an Israel-based company specializing in data security posture management. A 2023 study by Gartner, looking at DSPM functions and capabilities, reported that DSPM solutions are getting savvier at uncovering data repositories and identifying their exposure risk, thanks to their ability to use data lineage to "Discover, identify and map data, across structured and unstructured data repositories, that relies on integrations with, for example, specific infrastructure, databases and CSPs.".

Polar Flow can reveal sensitive information about the lives of users, including intelligence agents, embassy workers, military men and women, workers at nuclear weapons storage sites, and so on....

The fitness app Polar Flow exposes the whereabouts of some of its high-profile users, including “spies” and those with sensitive positions in the military.

'I spent a year hiding in shrubs, and they just … publish their daily runs' +Comment Online investigations outfit Bellingcat has found that fitness tracking kit-maker Polar reveals both the...