Security News
Forty percent of people have lost data stored in their online tools, according to the findings from a recent survey of Software-as-a-Service users across a mix of industries by cloud backup provider Rewind. The company is encouraging businesses of all sizes to assess their current cloud data protection initiatives and have comprehensive backups in place for primary business applications ahead of World Backup Day on March 31.
Merlin Venture announced the formation of a Public Sector growth program for cybersecurity software-as-a-service startups. The program leverages Merlin Ventures capital, engineering lab, FedRAMP certification acceleration process, and Public Sector relationships to help startups tap into a $200 billion Public Sector IT solutions market.
While there's lots of bustle around protecting data that resides in on-premises apps, when it comes to protecting data in SaaS apps, it's pretty much crickets. One way they can better protect and preserve crucial SaaS app data is by having the right backup in place.
Lyve Cloud enables always-on mass capacity data storage and activation. "Lyve Cloud is a natural extension of Seagate's leadership in mass data solutions, combining our mass capacity HDD innovation with deep storage industry knowledge to help customers activate more of their valuable data," said Ravi Naik, executive vice president, storage services, and chief information officer at Seagate.
Calico Cloud gives DevOps, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineering teams a single pane of glass across multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments to deploy a standard set of egress access controls, enforce security policies for compliance, and observe and troubleshoot applications. Calico Cloud is Kubernetes-native and provides native extensions to enable security and observability as code for easy and consistent enforcement across Kubernetes distributions, multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Even more than that, it is the SaaS Security Posture Management that is critical to today's company security. Gartner has defined the SaaS Security Posture Management category in 2020's Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security as solutions that continuously assess the security risk and manage SaaS applications' security posture.
Votiro announced the launch of a cloud-based SaaS version of their Secure File Gateway solutions. The launch of the SaaS solution will provide customers working within or migrating to the cloud with a scalable way to completely eliminate file-borne attacks carried through email, web downloads, and website uploads.
AWS customers can now purchase the Obsidian SaaS security solution directly in AWS Marketplace and pay for the service through their integrated AWS bill. Obsidian protects against account compromise, insider threats, access misuse, data leaks, excessive privileges and weak posture in SaaS applications with its cloud detection and response platform.
Backup-as-a-service provider Rewind on Tuesday announced it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2015, the Ottawa, Canada-based company helps customers secure business-critical software-as-a-service application and cloud data, and claims more than 80,000 organizations in over 100 countries rely on its solutions.
Privacera announced the general availability of PrivaceraCloud, a new SaaS-based data security and governance platform that enables faster cloud onboarding and data access governance for hybrid and multi-cloud data services. PrivaceraCloud is ideal for enterprises looking to migrate data and analytical workloads from their on-premises Hadoop-based data lakes or private clouds to public cloud.