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Good morning and Happy Friday!
This is a more abbreviated edition of FTN this week as I’m on vacation with my family and trying to minimize screen time. Still here with your weekly filter on the industry tho! Take a read and enjoy the announcements of the week.
Thank you so much for making this a part of your Friday morning coffee time. I'm Phil Moroni, and I'm an Account Executive in the Information Technology Services Industry here with another edition of Friday Tech News!
What is this? This is a newsletter that provides updates and insights on the latest trends and developments in the technology industry. I am a professional who specializes in supporting IT leaders in evaluating, investing, and managing people, processes, and technology tools that support their businesses.
Each week, I summarize relevant industry updates from popular Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's), software publishers, and managed providers. The goal of my research and newsletter is to keep you informed about current trends and events that may impact your business from a trusted and reputable source. It's just information I'm sharing, and, I follow and work with hundreds of partners in the industry, keeping track of their growth, changes, and evolution so that you don't have to.
Bottom Line: As you focus on improving your business through digital initiatives, my commitment is to keep you informed of the fast-paced changes and trends taking place so that you can plan ahead and stay ahead of the game.
Key areas of focus for me are:
Cloud Computing, Security, Trends
Developer & Security Tools
Networking & Infrastructure Tools
End User Tools & Workspace Tech
Emerging Technologies and Future Concepts
If you have any questions, would like information about any specific vendors I follow, or would like to have a conversation about any topic that is challenging you, I invite you to engage with me! I value feedback immensely and would love to know what you find valuable about this newsletter so feel free to reach out!
Thank you for reading, and stay digitally and physically safe!
Phil
OEM News & Updates 📰
Great announcement from Dazz - this will surely expand their reach to more customers to help solve root cause analysis problems in cloud security.
Twilio | Twilio Integrates with OpenAI
Combining Twilio’s platform with OpenAI will allow customers to produce personalized and customer aware experiences.
Manage first party software risk with this new announcement from Qualys. Bring your own detection and remediation scripts to Qualys VMDR DID’s and you can scan differently! I see Qualys a lot in the wild so this will surely be a welcomed update.
Cool service for the SMB layer - they have a SOAR with human expertise to help businesses understand and remediate breaches and risks.
SecurityScorecard | SecurityScorecard Launches Managed Cyber Risk Services to Mitigate Zero-Day and Critical Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Very cool from SecurityScorecard. They’ll now offer a subscription service that combines security ratings, SOAR technology, and human expertise to detect, prioritize, and remediate issues in vendor ecosystems.
Sad news coming out of DELL, but for those in the channel this could be a massive announcement.
Datadog | Datadog Announces Security Inbox
Super cool stuff from Datadog after DASH last week. Security Inbox is part of the Cloud Security Management product and helps customers discover and fix security risks across cloud apps and infrastructure.
I really like what Ermetic is doing. This is a cool project that allows organizations to safely test their cloud security skills, processes, tools, and posture in an interactive sandbox environment that’s easy to deploy and destroy.
Test against things like CWPP, CSPM, CIEM, and CNS.
New from Vectra AI, hybrid attack defense is a new product that allows security teams to identify behavior of modern attackers where other tools cannot. Read on for more detail here for sure.
Mend is doing great things in the SCA space. You can now scan containers and registries at scale as well as provide run time vulnerability prioritization for k8s clusters.
Cloudflare Bot Management on IBM Cloud Internet Services (CIS) will be big for discovering and blocking bot threats across the entire attack surface including cloud, network, identity, and endpoints.
Tines now integrated with Code42 here for faster resolution of issues in the environment.
HashiCorp boundary now integrates with Azure Active Directory. Big news for HashiCorp people out there (which I know most of you are from a config management perspective at least).
Ugh - hate to see continued layoffs hitting the tech sector. If you’re affected please reach out and have a conversation.
NetSPI is top of the class in pen testing and this integration will allow customers to proactively improve security defenses for mobile apps.
BigID | BigID Launches Bucket Configuration Management: Elevating Cloud Data Security Posture to New Heights
Couple your DSPM and CSPM capabilities here against Amazon S3 to reduce risk of data exposure and breaches. They’re calling it “Bucket Configuration Management” or BCM for your new acronym of the week.
Adaptive Shield | Adaptive Shield Launches Identity Threat Detection and Response
Another new one for you - ITDR - leverages AI and ML to analyze and identify identity related threats based on key IOC’s.
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
Be careful with this one. I liked many of these announcements but some of the players aren’t enterprise focused quite yet. Either way, good
InfoWorld | You can’t run away from technical debt
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Laminar is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as data landscape intelligence and privacy for businesses.
Their DSPM solution is one of the hotter ones on the market. Is this the first we’ll see of major plays for DSPM vendors by big OEM’s?
Aceyus is a North Carolina (woot!) based cloud contact center platform that offers solutions such as omnichannel reporting and data and analytics services for businesses.
ConductorOne | ConductorOne Raises $12M; Expands Series A Funding to $27M
ConductorOne is a New York based SaaS platform that provides solutions such as identity governance and access management for businesses.
MindsDB is a California based AI development cloud platform that enables development teams to develop, train and deploy machine learning models.
Veza is a California based identity security platform that offers solutions such as cloud data authorization, access monitoring, governance, and compliance for businesses.
Perimeter 81 | Check Point buys Perimeter 81 for $490M to enhance its security tools for hybrid and remote workers
Perimeter 81 is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as network visibility and data protection for businesses.
WG2 is a Norway based API platform that provides cloud driven subscription management solutions for telecom businesses.
Horizon3 | Horizon3.ai Raises $40M Series C to Confront Attackers with Proactive, Continuous Security Testing
Horizon3.ai is a California based pen testing platform that allows businesses to scan for their security posture.
Meme of the week 🤣
Recommendations 👉🏻
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