Cloud Security

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Bringing its security and data analysis capabilities to a new potential audience, data security and multicloud data management provider Cohesity is now taking signups for access to its Turing generative AI features via Amazon’s Bedrock front-end for cloud-based AI. Cohesity Turing’s AWS-available features, the company announced Monday, will center on three main areas. The first…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cisco’s massive $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in September was the financial highlight of a quarter during which several other vendors also made strategic purchases to position themselves for emerging enterprise requirements around cloud, application, and identity security. The acquisitions added to a better-than-expected quarter ended Sept. 30, 2023, with venture funding also picking up…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud. Several new features will allow joint customers to innovate even faster in Google Cloud environments with the confidence that their cloud environment is even more secure. Customers can now choose to have the full Lacework platform, which provides data-driven…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO Online

An apparently innocuous cloud hosting provider may be fronting for an Iran-based company that provides command-and-control services to ransomware attackers, according to a report published this week by security consultant and anti-ransomware vendor Halcyon. Cloudzy, the report said, is primarily a virtual private server provider, which accepts cryptocurrency as payment for its services. Halcyon said…

Application Security, Cloud Security, Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Although only seeing tepid adoption to date, adaptive access and authentication is set to gain steam among businesses this year as organizations pursue zero-trust capabilities that grant and restrict access to data and systems based on context. In the latest sign of life in the evolving industry, startup company Oleria announced on March 21 that…

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Digital transformation is sweeping across the public and private sectors. This has pushed organizations to increasingly turn to hybrid and multicloud environments as a way to manage a sprawling digital infrastructure and growing mountains of data. But while cloud technology promises to increase collaboration among distributed workforces and quickly scale digital workloads, it also creates…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Canonic Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, emerged from stealth exactly a year ago with $6 million in seed-stage venture capital funding for technology in the third-party app governance space. The publicly traded Zscaler, based in San Jose, CalifCanonic’s platform is designed to prevent expanding risks associated…

Application Security

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The nearly $200 million it raised in December will allow Snyk to consolidate the developer security market through organic investment and acquisitions, says CEO Peter McKay. Snyk has focused on giving clients a 360-degree view of applications by integrating open-source security, container security, infrastructure-as-code security and cloud security together, he says. The company’s buy of…

Application Security, Cloud Security, Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

We’ve recently seen substantial layoffs across the tech sector, to the tune of around 140,000 redundancies made by big names such as Amazon, Salesforce, Microsoft, and Tesla. As the recession bites, falling stock prices and further contraction in the market, together with merger and acquisition activity, are expected to force businesses to reduce head count…