CLOUD SECURITY
Wiz | November 18, 2022
Cyera, the data security company, can now seamlessly integrate with Wiz to provide prioritized attack surface minimization and automated remediation based on sensitive data exposure. Cyera leverages its Data Security Graph to help security teams quickly understand the blast radius that an active security threat or vulnerability represents, and how to respond to remediate the issue.
"Wiz introduced a new approach to cloud security that enables organizations to embrace the cloud while reducing risk, Partnering with other cloud-first companies that enable security teams benefits everyone as it improves the overall cloud security posture."
Assaf Rappaport, CEO of Wiz
Enhancing Cloud Detection and Response with Data Security Posture
Cyera's data security posture management platform enables security teams to understand the data they manage, and what's at risk. By automatically and continuously identifying data stores across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, Cyera proactively assesses internet facing exposures and access permissions, and provides detection and response capabilities to keep an organization's most precious data safe from exposure. This integration adds Cyera's deep data context to Wiz's extensive risk posture assessments.
"Cyera provides enterprises with a deep understanding of the sensitive data they have, how it extends their threat surface and how to take action to remediate the risk it represents," said Yotam Segev, CEO of Cyera. "Together, our solutions will empower security teams to approach cloud security holistically, focusing on the risks that matter most."
Holistic cloud data protection, at scale
The new solution will enable security teams to prioritize risk remediation based on sensitive data exposure.
"Security teams need to understand how sensitive data represents risk to their business," said Mike Britton, Chief Information Security Officer for Abnormal Security. "Getting your security posture right requires you to understand the difference between how an application, an IT employee, or someone in HR should be able to access and handle sensitive information, before you can effectively apply the right controls that protect your business without disrupting it."
Examples of how this partnership improves cloud security with data security posture include:
Adding context on the risk that publicly exposed data represents to operational resilience into detection and response workflows
Identifying where improved data security controls and less permissive access to sensitive customer or employee data can improve cyber-resilience and protect against ransomware threats
Correlating cloud configuration issues, critical data store vulnerabilities, and data security risk to ensure teams can respond quickly to the most material risks to their cloud environments
About Cyera
Cyera is the data security company that gives businesses context and control over their most valuable asset: data. As a pioneer in data security posture management, Cyera instantly provides companies visibility over all of their sensitive data, context over the risk it represents and their security exposure, and automated remediation to reduce the attack surface and ensure operational resilience. Backed by leading investors including Sequoia, Accel, and Cyberstarts, Cyera is redefining the way companies do cloud data security.
About Wiz
Wiz is reinventing cloud security from the inside out. Led by an experienced and visionary team, Wiz is on a mission to help organizations create secure cloud environments that accelerate their businesses. By creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments, the Wiz platform enables organizations to rapidly identify and remove critical risks.
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CLOUD SECURITY
Sigma | September 15, 2022
Forescout Technologies, the global leader in automated cybersecurity, today announced a new healthcare cybersecurity partnership with First Health Advisory, a leader in healthcare IT risk management. The partnership creates an innovative approach to connected asset risk management by automating the technical data collection, mitigation and risk reduction measures for a healthcare organization’s entire network that encompasses IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT assets.
Healthcare organizations’ networks are under constant attack and often do not have the necessary human capital to oversee the work necessary to thwart a potential threat or attack through quick response. This challenge places added importance on the need to obtain highly skilled outside expertise to operationalize a program and execute ongoing asset risk assessments across the network.
“Cybersecurity risk assessments for healthcare organizations are incredibly time consuming, static in nature, and mandated by regulatory requirements. Moreover, the steps to mitigate assessment findings and lower risk are difficult to complete with the current cyber skills shortage, This partnership and new approach that combines intuitive risk assessment and automated mitigation technology will allow healthcare organizations to not only make risk assessments easier and faster to complete, but also free up internal resources to support other critical aspects of the patient experience.”
Tamer Baker, vice president, global healthcare, Forescout
The audit experience will also see a major transformation through this new partnership. Organizations will have an ability to automate evidence collection and receive ongoing mitigation and vulnerability management support from First Health Advisory staff year-round.
“Our partnership delivers the optimal solution healthcare organizations are looking for – the right balance of highly skilled, multi-disciplinary risk assessment personnel with deep understanding of the regulatory landscape together with a dependable cybersecurity platform that can automate risk reduction actions,” said Will Long, CSO of Enterprise Security & Technology at First Health Advisory. “We’re excited about this collaboration and together with Forescout, look forward to helping more healthcare organizations improve their security posture.”
About Forescout
Forescout Technologies, Inc. delivers cybersecurity automation across the digital terrain, maintaining continuous alignment of customers’ security frameworks with their digital realities, including all asset types – IT, OT, IoT, IoMT. The Forescout Continuum Platform provides complete asset visibility, continuous compliance, network segmentation and a strong foundation for Zero Trust. For more than 20 years, Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies have trusted Forescout to provide automated cybersecurity at scale. Forescout arms customers with data-powered intelligence to accurately detect risks and quickly remediate cyberthreats without disruption of critical business assets.
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CLOUD STORAGE
Console Connect | August 29, 2022
HKT Console Connect by PCCW Global has today entered into a distribution agreement with Master Concept, an award-winning cloud technology advisor, to deliver agile cloud networking solutions to businesses across the Asia Pacific region.
Master Concept provides cloud strategy, implementation and integration support, as well as training and platform enhancements to thousands of businesses across Asia Pacific. By integrating the Console Connect Software Defined Interconnection® platform within its cloud solutions portfolio, Master Concept can deliver further value to major cloud platforms and SaaS providers worldwide with higher levels of network security and performance for its enterprise customers.
Through a single management portal, Master Concept can provision a range of cloud connectivity services for its customers, including direct Layer 2 connections to hyper-scale cloud providers, such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and Layer 3 mesh connectivity between and among different cloud providers and cloud regions.
The platform, which can be integrated via API, is underpinned by PCCW Global's high-performance network, offering comprehensive end-to-end SLAs that make it suitable for accessing mission-critical and latency-sensitive applications and workloads.
Mr Michael Glynn, Senior Vice President, Digital Automated Innovation, PCCW Global, said, "Secure and flexible connectivity is fundamental to any cloud transformation project. We are excited to be working alongside Master Concept to enhance their cloud solutions portfolio and make it easier for enterprises to connect to the cloud across Asia Pacific and worldwide."
"Through Console Connect, we have been able to quickly bring new cloud connectivity solutions to market and help our enterprise customers get closer to the cloud. We look forward to growing our collaboration further through the new PartnerConnect program."
Mr Dennis Wong, Director and Co-founder, Master Concept
Mr Derek Chan, Director and Co-founder, Master Concept, said, "We are delighted to be one of the launch partners for Console Connect's new global PartnerConnect program which enables Master Concept to deliver secure and agile cloud capabilities to our enterprise customers."
Console Connect's PartnerConnect program is designed to drive revenue growth and customer success through the Console Connect Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform. The program helps managed services providers, systems integrators, value added resellers, and application providers extend their service portfolio, and securely connect their customers, clouds, and applications worldwide.
Benefits of the PartnerConnect program include:
The ability to integrate Console Connect services and applications via API.
Private connections over one of the world's largest high-performance networks with assured quality of service and the ability to scale and flex on-demand.
Access to tools, technical and commercial support, training, and sales and marketing expertise.
About Console Connect
Console Connect is a platform for the Software Defined Interconnection® of applications and infrastructures. It allows users to self-provision private, high-performance connections among a global ecosystem of enterprises, networks, clouds, SaaS providers, IoT providers and applications providers.
Console Connect is the only digital platform that is underpinned by one of the world's largest private networks and a Tier 1 global IP network that is ranked in the top 10 for IPv4 and IPv6 peering, delivering higher levels of network performance, speed and security to meet the digital needs of today's interconnected users and communities.
Accessible from 850+ data centres in 50+ countries worldwide, the platform is integrated with all major hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and more. Through the Console Connect portal or via its API, users can access a broad range of native and third party solutions.
About Master Concept
Founded in 2003, Master Concept provides technology services and cloud advisory to improve the customer experience for the world's leading brands. With more than 120 people serving enterprise clients and thousands of other businesses around the Asia Pacific, our team provides cloud strategy, implementation, and integration support, as well as training and platform enhancements for customers across all industries.
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CLOUD DEPLOYMENT MODELS
eSentire | November 02, 2022
eSentire Inc., the Authority in Managed Detection and Response (MDR), announced today its global partnership with Lacework®, the data-driven cloud security company, advancing its protection of cloud workloads, containers, applications, and Kubernetes with 24/7 Multi-Signal MDR and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) services, utilizing the Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform. eSentire is Lacework’s first global MDR partner.
With 95% of organizations leveraging at least one cloud service1 and 70% running more than two containerized applications by 20232, security leaders must seek out partners who align cloud protection to each organization’s business strategy. Widespread adoption of cloud Infrastructure (IaaS), Platform (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) models demonstrate an undisputed business ambition to innovate and scale quickly. eSentire uniquely embraces the balance between business strategy and cloud security, delivering first and foremost on the mission to protect the risk in order to prevent business disruption.
“eSentire understands that cloud security isn’t a journey to shift left for every organization. It’s about protecting what matters most to your business because a risk is a risk, no matter where your users and data reside, This partnership with Lacework demonstrates our commitment to driving the most proactive threat response outcomes forward on behalf of our global customer base. Our message to security leaders is that you’re in the cloud, and we’re all-in to protect you.”
Rahul Bakshi, Chief Product Officer, eSentire
Using machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud behavioral analytics, the Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform automatically learns and understands behaviors across an organization’s cloud environment. eSentire’s new partnership with Lacework expands its deep expertise across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud with further visibility, differentiated behavior-based threat detection, and context-rich insights to fuel its multi-signal investigations. From there, eSentire’s 24/7 SOC analysts and renowned Threat Response Unit (TRU) stop active threats before they spread to become business disrupting, with a Mean Time to Contain of less than 15 minutes. eSentire’s Cyber Risk Advisors act as an extension of the customer’s team, supporting their risk-based strategy with the contextual industry and business awareness required to provide actionable recommendations to improve cyber resilience across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Additional eSentire and Lacework mutual service benefits include:
Identified and prioritized misconfigurations across the three major cloud providers – Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
Findings mapped against recognized industry frameworks, including HIPAA, CIS, and SOC 2
Complete multi-signal threat investigation visibility within eSentire’s Atlas Insight Portal
Detection, investigation, and containment of threats to virtual machine (VM) workloads and containers up to 10x faster
A 342% return on investment, 100:1 alert reduction, and 80% faster investigation capability
“As threats continue to increase in speed and sophistication, customers are looking for security solutions which can help them continue to innovate quickly with the confidence they’re prioritizing security and compliance,” said Brian Lanigan, VP, Worldwide Channels and Alliances, Lacework. “Together with eSentire, we’re delivering a fully managed solution that provides complete cloud detection, investigation, and proactive threat response. This puts the customer’s protection at the forefront, mitigating cloud security risks with transparent visibility and co-management capabilities.”
eSentire MDR for Cloud and Cloud Security Posture Management protection with Lacework is available now.
eSentire and Lacework will be hosting an executive fireside chat on Thursday, December 7, 2022, with industry experts Tia Hopkins (Field CTO and Chief Cyber Risk Strategist, eSentire) and Erin K. Banks (Senior Director of Product Marketing, Partners & Alliances, Lacework) entitled: Risk is Risk - Is Cloud Security The Journey or The Destination? To register and participate in this engaging conversation, visit: mdr.esentire.com/lacework.
About eSentire
eSentire, Inc. is the Authority in Managed Detection and Response, protecting the critical data and applications of 1,500+ organizations in 80+ countries, representing 35 industries from known and unknown cyber threats. Founded in 2001, the company’s mission is to hunt, investigate and stop cyber threats before they become business disrupting events. Combining cutting-edge machine learning XDR technology, 24/7 Threat Hunting, and proven security operations leadership, eSentire mitigates business risk, and enables security at scale. The Team eSentire difference means enterprises are protected by the best in the business with a named Cyber Risk Advisor, 24/7 access to SOC Cyber Analysts, Elite Threat Hunters, and industry-leading threat intelligence research from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU). eSentire provides Managed Risk, Managed Detection and Response and Incident Response services.
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