Security News
With $4 million in seed funding, Adaptive Shield this week emerged from stealth mode to automate the security of software-as-a-service applications. SaaS security configuration errors, the company claims, could result in catastrophic and costly data breaches, and errors are the second largest cause of data breaches, with misconfigurations being the most common, according to Verizon's 2020 DBIR. Adaptive Shield, which already has customers among Fortune 500 companies, says the SaaS setting errors it has identified were exposing organizations to one-click compromise, and claims it can quickly address the problem of poorly configured SaaS apps.
Polyrize announced its SaaS-based security platform. "The push to remote work has driven home the fact that identity is the new perimeter, and Polyrize is proud to be the first solution to offer identity privileges and access security to solve for fragmentation across the cloud."
Platform9 announced key additional building blocks in delivering the next generation SaaS managed Kubernetes experience. New features include the industry's first managed Calico networking with API access, an application wizard for automated deployment of bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, and enhanced cluster monitoring and observability that provide better insights into all aspects of cluster behavior.
IronCore Labs, the data control and privacy platform, announced several new product features that build on the company's two core products: the Data Control Platform and SaaS Shield. The IronCore team recently launched the IronOxide Android SDK, which allows customers to integrate IronCore's privacy toolkit into Android applications to control sensitive data.
AppOmni has launched a cloud security posture management product called Enterprise Essentials designed to automate the process of achieving best security practices for all major SaaS platforms, and provide visibility into what is happening to sensitive data in the cloud. He said, "Salesforce is different from ServiceNow in basically every way that matters. The platform is different, the security model is different, trust anchors are different, sharing, data access, provisioning, governance... it's all different. The challenge is that there are so many levers, knobs and switches in each of these SaaS applications that it is really hard to understand where we are in line with best practices, and do we have the right controls in place. The security team, which has more to do than bandwidth to do it, doesn't have time to do six months of training for every SaaS application that their business relies on."
Checkmarx announced the launch of Checkmarx SCA, the company's new, SaaS-based software composition analysis solution. CxSCA leverages Checkmarx's source code analysis and automation capabilities, empowering security and development teams to easily identify vulnerabilities within open source software that present the greatest risk and enable developers to focus and prioritize remediation efforts accordingly.
Together, the two companies are transforming storage and helping reduce financial and operational risk by offering advanced storage on demand. The partnership between Zadara and Cyxtera alleviates the burden of owning and managing storage infrastructure and provides the functionality of enterprise storage without incurring rigid CapEx costs.
HackerOne, the leading hacker-powered security platform, announced that it became the first and only hacker-powered security platform to achieve Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Tailored Low Impact-Software as a Service Authorization for its full suite of hacker-powered security solutions. FedRAMP is a U.S. federal government program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring of cloud products and services to ensure that the proper level of security is in place when government agencies seek to access them.
Together, CyberArk and Idaptive will deliver the industry's only modern identity platform with a security-first approach. Through the acquisition, CyberArk and Idaptive will deliver a comprehensive Artificial Intelligence-based, security-first approach to managing identities that is adaptive and context-aware, and architected on the principles of Zero Trust and least privilege access, to dramatically reduce risk.
In a move calculated to make a dent in the data protection landscape, leading data management solutions vendor, Parablu, announced the launch of their SaaS backup solution - BluVault for Microsoft Office 365. Parablu's BluVault for Office 365 enables secure cloud backup and recovery and lets enterprises create a redundant copy of their SaaS data assets.