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…

As cyberattacks have grown increasingly destructive, nations are entertaining the idea of responding to them with conventional military forces. It is difficult to determine how serious countries are when they threaten “kinetic” responses to digital attacks. Yet, the ambiguity over if or when cyberattacks should be answered with military force only increases the risk of…

Zscaler released their second annual IoT report, compiled after analyzing their customers’ IoT transactions in the Zscaler cloud for two weeks. The company found 553 different IoT devices across 21 categories from 212 manufacturers. Organizations around the world are observing this Shadow IoT phenomenon, where employees are bringing unauthorized devices into the enterprise. With this…

Arista partners with VMware and Zscaler for hybrid cloud security

Arista Networks announced security capabilities focused on private, hybrid and public cloud networking. Based on Arista’s cloud-grade EOS and CloudVision software, Arista’s approach redefines silo security into holistic security designed for a multi-cloud environment. Key integration includes VMware NSX Data Center and Zscaler for holistic security. The new security expansion delivers three attributes: network segmentation,…