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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.
Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed service that provides an easy, secure way for customers to create and automate bidirectional data flows between AWS and SaaS applications without writing custom integration code. Millions of customers run applications, data lakes, large-scale analytics, machine learning, and IoT workloads on AWS. These customers often also have data stored in dozens of SaaS applications, resulting in silos that are disconnected from data stored in AWS. Organizations want to be able to combine their data from all of these sources, but that requires customers to spend days writing code to build custom connectors and data transformations to convert disparate data types and formats across different SaaS applications.
The same problem could occur with a Word document synced through Dropbox or with any number of other legitimate SaaS applications that store data in the cloud. How to improve your SaaS security What can you do to improve the sanctioning processes, compliance, and security of your SaaS applications? Aside from doing your due diligence in researching service providers, here are some suggestions.
Recently, some of the biggest names in SaaS have experienced customer support data breaches. With data playing an important role in the success of customer support, companies must ensure information security is top of mind to build relationships and develop trust with customers.