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The investment will be used to significantly scale the company through rapid expansion into the mission-critical SaaS applications market, starting with protection and compliance for Salesforce and SuccessFactors applications. This new support for mission-critical SaaS applications enables Onapsis to execute its vision of protecting the intelligent enterprise and accelerating digital transformation initiatives by delivering cybersecurity and compliance solutions for all mission-critical applications running on-premises and hosted on cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service, as well as the API-based integrations between them.
The problem is that even with the built-in security controls, organizations still experience security breaches due to misconfigurations in their SaaS applications. Cloud Access Security Brokers address security issues in SaaS applications.
More attention should be dedicated to strange login times and locations so that cloud and SaaS account compromises do not result in company-wide damage. Since the unusual login location was accompanied by an unusual login time, the actions triggered a deeper analysis from my team.
Software-as-a-Service security platform provider ReliaQuest announced on Tuesday that it has raised more than $300 million in a growth funding round led by global investment company KKR. Ten Eleven Ventures and Brian Murphy, ReliaQuest's founder and CEO, also took part in the funding round. ReliaQuest has developed GreyMatter, a cloud-native SaaS platform that is designed to help enterprises gain more visibility into their on-premises and cloud environments by collecting and analyzing data from their existing cyber solutions.
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.