DATA SECURITY, PLATFORM SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY
Lookout | January 31, 2023
Lookout, Inc., a business specializing in endpoint-to-cloud security, has announced enhanced capabilities and feature updates to its award-winning Lookout Cloud Security Platform, the only endpoint-to-cloud security solution available on the market. In addition to cloud, internet, and private applications, the cloud-native platform now includes a single policy architecture for administration and enforcement across all mobile devices.
A single agent and a single control plane for mobile and cloud security services are also new platform upgrades, providing IT and security professionals with a cost-effective, streamlined administration experience. In addition, the Lookout Cloud Security Platform combines security service edge (SSE) with endpoint security to secure users and data regardless of location.
It constantly monitors the risk posture of devices and users to provide dynamic and granular zero-trust access based on the sensitivity level of applications and data. As a result, it enables organizations to protect their workers, devices, applications, and data from unauthorized access and modern internet-based threats. In addition, the extended platform enables clients to make more educated choices about cloud security services using threat data from mobile endpoints.
Lookout CEO, Jim Dolce, said, "Digital transformation and the significant adoption of the cloud have accelerated remote work and the use of mobile and unmanaged devices, which in turn exposes organizations to new security gaps that are ripe for exploitation from bad actors." He added, "Lookout's mission is to secure and empower the digital future where mobility and cloud are essential to all that we do for work and play; our endpoint to cloud security platform ensures that your data is protected – regardless of device, user or location."
(Source – PR Newswire)
The Award-Winning Lookout Platform
The Lookout Cloud Security Platform integrates security services based on the company's unique technologies:
Lookout Secure Private Access
Lookout Secure Cloud Access
Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security
Lookout Secure Internet Access
About Lookout, Inc.
Lookout, Inc. is a cybersecurity firm that merges endpoint security with SASE technology to protect data while maintaining user privacy. Its single, cloud-native security platform protects data across devices, applications, networks, and clouds—a solution as fluid and adaptable as the current digital environment. Giving companies and people more control over their data empowers them to maximize its value and flourish. Lookout is trusted by organizations of all sizes, government agencies, and millions of individuals to safeguard sensitive data, allowing them to live, work, and connect freely and securely.
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PLATFORM SECURITY
Picus Security | November 10, 2022
Picus Security, the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), today announced the availability of its next-generation security validation technology. The new Picus Complete Security Validation Platform levels up the company's attack simulation capabilities to remove barriers of entry for security teams. It enables any size organization to automatically validate the performance of security controls, discover high-risk attack paths to critical assets and optimize SOC effectiveness.
"Picus helped create the attack simulation market, and now we're taking it to the next level, By pushing the boundaries of automated security validation and making it simpler to perform, our new platform enables organizations even without large in-house security teams to identify and address security gaps continuously."
-H. Alper Memis, Picus Security CEO and Co-Founder
The all-new-and-improved Picus platform extends Picus's capabilities beyond security control validation to provide a more holistic view of security risks inside and outside corporate networks. It consists of three individually licensable products:
Security Control Validation - simulates ransomware and other real-world cyber threats to help measure and optimize the effectiveness of security controls to prevent and detect attacks.
Attack Path Validation - assesses an organization's security posture from an 'assume breach' perspective by performing lateral movement and other evasive actions to identify high-risk attack paths to critical systems and users.
Detection Rule Validation - analyzes the health and performance of SIEM detection rules to ensure that SOC teams are reliably alerted to threats and can eliminate false positives.
A global cybersecurity workforce gap of 3.4 million professionals∗ means automated security validation is now essential to reduce manual workloads and help security teams respond to threats sooner. Recently, the US's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a joint advisory recommending organizations test their defenses continually and at scale against the latest techniques used by attackers.
Insights from point-in-time testing are quickly outdated and do not give security teams a complete view of their security posture, With the Picus platform, security teams benefit from actionable insights to optimize security effectiveness whenever new threats arise, not once a quarter. With our new capabilities, these insights are now deeper and cover even more aspects of organizations' controls and critical infrastructure,said Volkan Erturk, Picus Security CTO and Co-Founder.
About Picus Security
Picus Security is the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS). The Picus Complete Security Validation Platform is trusted by leading organizations worldwide to continuously validate security effectiveness and deliver actionable insights to strengthen resilience 24/7. Picus has offices in North America, Europe and APAC and is supported by a global network of channel and alliance partners. Picus has been named a 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner and is cited by Frost & Sullivan as one of the most innovative players in the BAS market.
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DATA SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Varonis | January 27, 2023
On January 26, 2023, Varonis Systems, Inc., a leader in data security and analytics, announced the availability of automated posture management to assist clients in resolving security and compliance gaps spanning their SaaS and IaaS systems.
Varonis continuously scans, identifies, and ranks cloud security threats, providing CISOs and compliance officers with real-time insight into their data security posture. With this new automation option, users can fix misconfigurations in applications such as Salesforce and AWS with a single click from a unified interface.
According to Gartner, through 2025, 99% of cloud security breaches will be the customer's fault. CIOs can counter this by adopting and enforcing rules for cloud ownership, accountability, and risk acceptance.
Varonis Field CTO, Brian Vecci, said, “Automated posture management takes the burden of understanding and remediating cloud misconfigurations off the customer.” He also said, “We stay on top of the latest configuration risks and best practices, so you don’t have to. Now, we can not only show you exactly how to improve your security posture, but we can also automatically mitigate risk on your behalf.”
(Source – GlobeNewswire)
This release marks a significant advancement in cloud data security. Passive data security posture management (DSPM) solutions need manual operations to generate help desk tickets for a person to review and fix in every cloud application manually. Varonis offers a uniform and automated method for minimizing the attack surface of multi-cloud environments.
Automated posture management is the most recent tool introduced by Varonis to simplify data security outcomes. Varonis introduced least privilege automation for Google Drive, Microsoft 365, and Box, as well as a new data security posture management (DSPM) dashboard early this month.
About Varonis
Varonis is a leader in data security and analytics, waging war differently from typical cybersecurity corporations. Instead, Varonis focuses on protecting business data like:
Sensitive files and emails
Strategic and product plans
Financial records
Confidential customer, patient, and employee data
In addition to data protection, Zero Trust, data governance, compliance, categorization, data privacy, and threat detection and response, Varonis solutions handle various other critical use cases. The company began operations in 2005 and has clients in the financial services, healthcare, industrial, energy and utilities, insurance, technology, media and entertainment, consumer and retail, and education industries, among others.
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