Enterprise Security
Skybox Security | September 14, 2023
Skybox Security, a leading Exposure Management solutions provider, has unveiled the next generation of its prestigious Continuous Exposure Management Platform. This 13.0 release introduces significant enhancements to its solution for Attack Surface and Vulnerability Management, which revolutionizes the manner businesses manage and mitigate cyber exposure risk.
Attack Surface Management Delivers Complete Visibility
Skybox's Surface Management solution provides an extensive inventory and map of users' assets and applications. It evaluates and simulates attack paths. The result is a dynamic security model for the hybrid attack surface. Version 13.0 introduces significant new features, including:
New Attack Surface Map
Enhanced Attack Path Analysis
LDAP Integration
Cloud Infrastructure Integration
Vulnerability Management Deepens Exposure Insights
Skybox's Vulnerability Management solution combines more than 25 third-party threat intelligence feeds with its own Skybox Threat Intelligence feed in order to prioritize threats based on exposure risk and remediate vulnerabilities with prescriptive guidance. With Version 13.0, businesses are able to:
Import Vulnerability Data
New Business-Focused' Solutions View'
Celebrity Vulnerabilities
SOAR Integration
Mordecai Rosen, CEO of Skybox Security, said,
In today's complex threat landscape, organizations need to continuously manage their threat exposure based on the prioritized risks to their business.
[Source – Business Wire]
Rosen stated that the Skybox platform now supports every stage of an enterprise's continuous exposure management (CEM) program, from mapping the attack surface through contextualization and risk-based prioritization to final remediation. It was also mentioned that the latest enhancements enable organizations to further improve their security posture and substantially reduce the risk of a successful attack.
About Skybox
Skybox is trusted by over 500 of the world's largest and most security-conscious enterprises for providing insights and assurance to stay ahead of dynamically changing attack surfaces. Its Exposure Management Platform provides complete analytics, visibility, and automation to quickly prioritize, map, and remediate vulnerabilities across organizations. The vendor-agnostic solution optimizes security policies, actions, and change processes across all cloud environments and corporate networks. With Skybox, security teams can emphasize the most strategic business initiatives while ensuring enterprises remain protected.
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Data Security
Cohesity | September 07, 2023
Cohesity, an industry leader in data security and management, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., a provider of trusted government IT solutions, announced entering into a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft plans to act as a distributor for Cohesity, making Cohesity's data cloud platform accessible to the Public Sector via Carahsoft's reseller partners, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 (ITES-SW2), NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint, OMNIA Partners, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA), and E&I Cooperative service contract.
The extensive data cloud platform from Cohesity consolidates data sources, assists in the elimination of infrastructure silos, and automates data management tasks. The platform streamlines data management by offering a single, user-friendly interface for managing data in cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Cohesity's data security and management solutions offer the public sector with granular control over their data, enabling them to comply with legal and regulatory requirements and protect sensitive data.
The Cohesity Data Cloud’s key capabilities include:
Data Protection: Captures backup copies of data that are preserved inalterably and are instantaneously recoverable in an instance of a ransomware attack or other business disruptions.
Data Security: Provides enhanced resilience to cyber threats via cyber vaulting, data classification, threat intelligence and scanning, and bidirectional integration with the security operations center of agencies.
Data Mobility: Enables agencies to transfer data across hybrid multi-cloud environments in a secure and efficient manner, thereby reducing costs and increasing flexibility.
Data Access: Eliminates unnecessary copies and efficiently manages files and objects at scale.
Data Insight: Enables agencies to search, classify, and analyze data worldwide across their entire infrastructure in order to provide business value or pinpoint sensitive data for compliance.
Kit Beall, Chief Revenue Officer at Cohesity, said,
We are pleased to partner with Carahsoft and its resellers to provide U.S. government agencies with powerful novel capabilities based on our leadership position in data security and management.
[Source – GlobeNewswire]
Beall also added that they look forward to expanding their strategic partnership with Carahsoft to assist public sector customers in strengthening their cyberspace resilience in the face of evolving advanced adversaries.
About Cohesity
Cohesity is an industry leader in AI-powered data management and security. The company makes it simple to secure, protect, manage, and extract value from data — across the data center, cloud, and edge. It provides organizations with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, such as AI-based threat detection, immutable backup snapshots, and monitoring malicious behavior, among others, to defend against cybersecurity threats.
About Carahsoft
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is a trusted government IT solutions provider serving public sector organizations across local, state, and federal government agencies and healthcare and education markets. As the master government aggregator for vendor partners, the company provides solutions for multicloud, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, Big Data, AI, customer experience and engagement, open source, and other domains. Working with resellers, systems integrators, and consultants, Carahsoft's sales and marketing teams provide hundreds of contract vehicles with industry-leading IT products, services, and training.
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Software Security
Keeper Security, Inc. | September 25, 2023
Keeper Security, a prominent cybersecurity software provider specializing in zero-trust and zero-knowledge solutions safeguarding credentials, privileged access, secrets, and remote connections, has announced the unveiling of a new, contemporary User Interface (UI) for the Keeper Password Manager application on Android. This awaited release introduces enhanced usability, intelligent search capabilities, and quicker synchronization times. With a focus on a polished appearance and user-friendly interactions, these enhancements are designed to simplify the utilization of Keeper's robust password and passkey management features, offering improved clarity and search functionality.
Keeper has adopted an incremental approach to enhancing the user experience, consistently refining the appearance, usability, and overall feel of its applications while staying mindful of the importance of consistency, familiarity and the world-class security and functionality that Keeper users have come to expect. With this update, Keeper's new user experience has been effectively implemented across all platforms, encompassing desktop, web browsers, and iOS. Android users can also anticipate an upcoming dark mode experience soon.
Android users of Keeper will encounter refreshed themes, including a default Light Mode and improved user-selectable themes. Additionally, new features include:
Streamlined Usability
Friendlier Interface
Accessibility and Inclusion
Advanced Search
Craig Lurey, CTO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security, said,
We are excited to introduce these enhancements to our Android app, completing the rollout of our stunning new user interface (UI) to every Keeper user.
[Source – Cision PR Newswire]
Lurey stated that the update represented their ongoing commitment to delivering the best possible user experience while maintaining the highest security standards. He mentioned that with the improved usability, modernized interface, and lightning-fast sync times, Keeper Password Manager for Android continued to be a go-to solution for organizations and individuals looking to secure their digital identities.
About Keeper Security
Keeper Security is revolutionizing the way to secure passwords, confidential data, and secrets for individuals and organizations worldwide. The company's user-friendly cybersecurity platform is built on the foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security, providing protection for users on all devices. Its solution is quick to deploy and seamlessly integrates with any technology stack, effectively preventing breaches, lowering help desk expenses, and ensuring compliance. Trusted by millions of individuals and numerous global organizations, Keeper leads in top-tier password management, privileged access, secrets management, secure remote access, and encrypted messaging solutions.
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Software Security
Lacework | September 15, 2023
Lacework, a company specializing in data-driven cloud security, and Snowflake, a prominent Data Cloud company, have jointly announced an expanded partnership. This partnership aims to propel the evolution of cloud infrastructure while enhancing cloud security automation at scale. Through this extended collaboration, security teams gain direct access to their Lacework cloud security data using Snowflake's secure data sharing, thus enabling unified visibility and tailored automation.
Ulfar Erlingsson, Chief Architect, Lacework, said,
Snowflake has been a dedicated platform partner as Lacework has scaled our business to support over 900 customers — ranging from small, early-stage startups to some of the most sophisticated enterprises running in the cloud space today — whose operations result in tremendous volume, variety, and velocity of security-relevant data.
[Source – Cision PR Newswire]
Erlingsson mentioned that, over the past seven years, Lacework had successfully conducted timely and efficient data processing by utilizing the Snowflake Data Cloud, even among a highly skewed set of customers. He further explained that their extended partnership with Snowflake would enhance their ability to serve joint customers at a cloud scale. This would apply whether customers needed them to handle only a small amount of security data or data processing at rates as high as 10s of gigabytes per second.
As generative AI advances and becomes more accessible across various industries, the frequency and severity of cybersecurity threats are on the rise. This trend is driven by businesses accelerating their development processes and increasing cloud data generation. Addressing this new era of cloud security necessitates a fundamentally fresh approach, and Lacework's platform is designed to efficiently manage the substantial volume of data within an organization's cloud ecosystem. This includes data related to code, identities, containers, and multi-cloud infrastructure, with Snowflake serving as a critical platform partner.
Through the combined capabilities of Lacework's security platform and Snowflake's Data Cloud, customers gain the ability to extend the value of cloud security data throughout their organization. This enables organizations to thoroughly assess their security and compliance status.
Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at Snowflake, Omer Singer, said,
Among the many potential advantages of generative AI is the ability for enterprises to deploy new applications faster, which places even more emphasis on the need to have scalable infrastructure and solutions. The combination of Snowflake and Lacework will continue to assist organizations scale their cloud businesses securely in the new era.
[Source – Cision PR Newswire]
About Lacework
Lacework protects organizations in the cloud, enabling them to innovate with greater speed and assurance. Lacework's platform is designed to scale with the variety, volume, and velocity of cloud data across an organization's cloud environment, including code, containers, identities, and multi-cloud infrastructure. Only Lacework provides Security and Development teams with a connected and prioritized end-to-end view that identifies the most significant hazards and security events.
About Snowflake
The Snowflake enables all organizations to mobilize their data with its Data Cloud. Customers utilize the Data Cloud to integrate disparate data sources, power data applications, discover and securely share data, and implement a variety of AI/ML and analytic workloads. Snowflake provides a singular data experience that transcends multiple clouds and geographies, regardless of where data or users reside. Snowflake Data Cloud is used by thousands of customers across numerous industries, including 639 of the 2023 Forbes Global 2000 as of July 31, 2023.
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