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  • Vertica and TCS Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise Data Warehouse Modernization Initiatives

    Partnership Combines Proven Experience and Broad Reach of TCS with Vertica’s Unified Analytics Platform Featuring Built-in Machine Learning

    Santa Clara, CA, May 19, 2021 – Vertica and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, today announced a strategic partnership to rapidly accelerate the modernization of enterprise data warehouses for data-driven organizations. The partnership combines Vertica’s unified analytics platform with the strengths of TCS’ Machine First™ approach and AI-driven accelerators and services.

    Nearly every enterprise is embarking on a transformation journey toward a unified analytics platform with built-in Machine Learning, the highest levels of performance, and massive scale to unlock the inherent value of data as a strategic asset. Traditional data warehouses are ill-equipped to manage the massive data explosion enterprises face and require real-time actionable insights before their competition.

    As part of this partnership, TCS will employ TCS DAEzMo™ to help customers migrate data from legacy enterprise data warehouses to Vertica quickly and at a lower total cost of ownership. Enterprises will realize the full benefit from their modernization journeys and experience richer customer experience via real-time data insights. With Vertica as the unified analytical platform, enterprises will be “future ready” to manage and analyze the largest volumes of data at scale with built-in Machine Learning and support for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.

    “There’s a race underway for enterprises to transform and create new analytic applications so that they can uncover insights in the moment and predict and capitalize on key market opportunities,” says Colin Mahony, GM and SVP of Vertica, Micro Focus. “By partnering with TCS, Vertica will enable more enterprises to get to market faster with their business-critical analytical products and services to obtain fast and accurate predictive insights.”

    TCS Analytics and Insights services have enabled thousands of leading enterprises in financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and other industries to modernize their data warehouses in harnessing the power of big data. By partnering with Vertica, TCS will enable organizations to achieve the real-time predictive insights with a unified analytics platform that evolves with them.

    “TCS’ DAEzMo™ suite of solutions and accelerators, in combination with Vertica’s unified analytical warehouse platform, is a pivotal enabler for businesses to modernize their data landscapes and democratize actionable insights across the enterprise. This lays the foundation for them to harness the power of AI to deliver superior customer experiences and build competitive differentiation,” says Dinanath Kholkar, Global Head, Analytics & Insights, TCS.

    Additional Information

    For more information about Vertica, please visit www.vertica.com.

    To learn more about Vertica on Twitter, please follow @VerticaUnified and join Vertica on LinkedIn and Facebook. For more information about TCS, visit www.tcs.com and join TCS on LinkedIn.

    About Vertica

    The core analytical platform within the Micro Focus software portfolio, Vertica is the Unified Analytics Platform, based on a massively scalable architecture with the broadest set of analytical capabilities and end-to-end in-database machine learning. Vertica enables many customers – from Philips to The Trade Desk to MassMutual to many others – to easily apply these powerful functions to the largest and most demanding analytical workloads, arming businesses and its customers with predictive business insights faster than any data analytical platform in the market. Vertica provides its Unified Analytics Platform across all major public clouds and on-premises data centers and integrates data in cloud object storage.

    About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)

    Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

    A part of the Tata group, India’s largest multinational business group, TCS has over 488,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $22.2 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS’ proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.com and follow TCS news at @TCS_News.

  • Cellebrite Unveils New Pathfinder Release, Designed to Securely Integrate, Manage, and Drive Actionable Insights from Data to Meet Mission and Investigation Objectives

    Investigative Analytics Solution Delivers Market-Leading Data Analysis and Collaboration Capabilities

    Petah Tikva, Israel, May 19, 2021 — Cellebrite, the global leader in Digital Intelligence (DI) solutions for the private and public sectors, today announced the launch of the latest version of Cellebrite Pathfinder, its flagship investigative analytics solution achieving significant milestones in data analysis, enterprise readiness, scalability and process performance.

    Pathfinder uses AI and machine learning to enable investigative units to process digital data efficiently and effectively with advanced filtering, categorization, tagging and analyzing capabilities. Designed to quickly uncover and surface leads, Pathfinder identifies new insights and connections throughout the investigation.

    Pathfinder 8.6 now ingests data from a broader range of sources including mobile phones, computers, CDRs and more. Investigators and analysts can automate data processing and intuitively query structured and unstructured data to find the answers they need in easy-to-understand formats. The new release also provides enhanced capabilities for agencies to collaborate between units and outside agency partners.

    Pathfinder 8.6 Release Highlights:

    • Simplified View of Communications, Unified across all channels:

      • View person’s digital footprint with new Simple View in an intuitive manner

      • One coherent flow of information to review texts, images, videos, and documents

      • Identify locations of Wi-Fi networks through new enriched map view

    • Enhanced Analysis Capabilities across multiple data types:

      • Discover cross-case connections with the new ability to highlight common identifiers between two or more cases to improve investigation workflows

      • Automatically detect and categorize case-specific topics across all digital evidence

      • Optimize the efficiency of your investigation with the newly released ability to tailor video analysis

      • Bird’s eye view to identify connections using a link graph

    • Collaborate with internal departments and systems, and external agencies to:

      • Share case data across units and agencies to keep investigation continuity and streamline collaboration

      • Work as a unified team with data tags and virtual dashboards

      • Generate reports with built-in templates to serve investigation stakeholders and progress the case

    “Our goal is to provide agencies with the industry leading Digital Intelligence Investigative Platform to transform the way they work for the digital age to protect and save lives, accelerate justice, and preserve data privacy,” said Ori Nurick, EVP, Product Management, Cellebrite. “The latest Pathfinder release is an important step in this evolution, and it will enable investigators around the world to accelerate and optimize how they address the increasing complexities of crimes, while analyzing and managing digital evidence to identify suspects and build cases quickly.”

    Cellebrite Pathfinder 8.6 is currently available. For more information, please visit Cellebrite.com

    About Cellebrite
    Cellebrite’s mission is to enable its customers to protect and save lives, accelerate justice, and preserve privacy in communities around the world. We are the global leader in Digital Intelligence solutions for the public and private sectors, empowering organizations in mastering the complexities of legally sanctioned digital investigations by streamlining intelligence processes. Trusted by thousands of leading agencies and companies in more than 140 countries, Cellebrite’s Digital Intelligence platform and solutions transform how customers collect, review, analyze and manage data in legally sanctioned investigations. To learn more visit us at www.cellebrite.com or follow us on Twitter @Cellebrite_UFED.

  • Celonis Appoints Omesh Agam as Chief Information Security Officer

    Munich and New York, May 19, 2021 — Celonis, the global leader in Execution Management, today announced that Omesh Agam has joined as Chief Information Security Officer. With his more than 20 years of experience, Agam will build on Celonis’ security leadership and scale it for the company’s continued hypergrowth. He will lead the company’s global security strategy, operations, and engineering.

    Agam, named one of the “Top 10 CISOs to Watch” by WashingtonExec, most recently was Chief Information Security Officer at enterprise software company Appian. His appointment further expands Celonis’ commitment to exceed industry standards for security and trust for its customers.

    “We live for customer value at Celonis, and we know that starts by earning our customers’ trust,” said Bastian Nominacher, co-CEO and co-founder of Celonis. “Omesh brings a customer-first mindset to information security and a proven record of building world-class security practices that earn the highest levels of customer trust.”

    Celonis provides unparalleled security controls for customers in its Execution Management System (EMS) and builds new products with security and privacy built in by design. This week it became the first and only process mining vendor with a SOC 2 Type 2 report, which requires an independent auditor opinion on the design of security, confidentiality, and availability controls as well as the operating effectiveness throughout the review period. This bolsters the company’s strong and growing compliance achievements and certifications, which include ISO 27001:2013 for information security management, ISO 27701:2019 for privacy information management, and ISO 9001:2015 for quality management.

    Agam, executing a Celonis board mandate to bring its security strategy and operations to the next level, will report directly to Nominacher and represent security initiatives at an executive level for all of Celonis.

    “It’s an exciting time to join Celonis as it helps enterprises modernize their business execution and leads the shift to execution management,” Agam said. “I look forward to building on Celonis’ leadership in security to fuel the success of our customers and the next stage of the company’s growth.”

    In addition to his 8 years at Appian, Agam previously held information security roles at accounting firm Cotton & Company LLP and as a consultant with Unisys. Agam also is an active mentor to security startup founders through the MACH37 Cyber Accelerator and served as an advisory board member to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland.

    About Celonis
    Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of applications, and developer studio and platform capabilities for business executives and users to eliminate billions in corporate inefficiencies. Celonis has thousands of customers, including ABB, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Coca-Cola, Citibank, Danaher Corporation, Dell, GSK, John Deere, L’Oréal, Siemens, Uber, Vodafone and Whirlpool. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA and has 15 offices worldwide.

  • Hysolate Launches Free OS Isolation Offering, Taking Windows Sandbox Technology to the Next Level

    Hysolate Free offers users no-cost isolated virtual workspaces to isolate risky activities and protect enterprises from phishing and malware

    Tel Aviv and New York, May 19, 2021 — Hysolate, a virtual workspace innovator for security-aware enterprises, today announced the general availability of Hysolate Free, an instantly deployable OS isolation solution that empowers workers to protect corporate assets by isolating risky activities in a local VM on their laptops. Hysolate is the first company to extend the isolation technology behind Microsoft’s Windows Sandbox to provide a completely persistent isolated workspace for any application and data on a user’s endpoint.

    In a global business environment where it’s generally accepted that up to 70 percent of security breaches originate at the endpoint, workers still need to access documents, applications, websites, peripherals, and cloud services beyond the security perimeter to perform routine tasks comprising their job descriptions. Using Hysolate, workers can browse the web freely, download content and install applications in a safe virtual workspace on their laptops without compromising their endpoints’ security or exposing the corporate domain to the perils of phishing and malware. Hysolate Free gives users the option of relegating these activities to an isolated virtual workspace on their laptops, making these tasks worry-free.

    According to the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways, “Before COVID-19, we saw the growth of popular SaaS applications, such as Salesforce and Microsoft Office 365, drive ‘direct to internet’ connections from branch offices, which also drove the adoption of cloud-based security services. Many enterprises are now seeking more than just a proxy service in the cloud, as they add zero trust network access (ZTNA), remote browser isolation (RBI), sandbox, firewall as a service (FWaaS), data loss prevention (DLP), and other cloud-based security services.”[1]

    [1] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways, Lawrence Orans, John Watts, 8 December 2020

    “In the new world without a perimeter, employee devices have become the cornerstone of corporate IT,” said Admiral Michael Rogers, Former Head of NSA. “Hysolate has reinvented how organizations can isolate applications and data on users’ devices and, by doing so, significantly reduce the risk on the endpoint. For those companies that are adopting zero trust concepts, the integrity of the endpoint is a key element alongside verifying the user’s identity. As employees continue to work from anywhere, they need a security solution that makes their day-to-day work secure yet productive.”

    “Endpoints continue to provide a major entry point for malware into the organization, moreso today with the demand for hybrid workforce support,” said Hysolate CEO Marc Gaffan. “To dramatically reduce that exposure, we are extending Microsoft’s virtualization-based security to cover any Windows application and user data that are not supported using existing Windows sandboxing technology. This includes downloading popular modern productivity and collaboration applications such as Adobe Reader, Zoom and Slack, opening questionable files and email attachments, accessing any cloud service, using external hard drives, and other typical activities beyond just web browsing.”

    VM-based isolation has received significant attention stemming from Microsoft’s recently announced enhancements to its Windows Sandbox product. While the changes represent an upgrade to the underlying virtualization technology, they do not cover all Windows applications, and don’t allow for a persistent environment where users can save their data and keep it isolated from their existing OS. While Windows Sandbox offers a volatile sandbox, mainly used by security researchers, Hysolate makes this technology available to the masses within an enterprise to seamlessly isolate zero-day attacks or malware riding on external sources like email attachments, executables, or external flash drives — without changing how users work. It also offers enterprise-grade centralized management capabilities and advanced network security capabilities.

    For several years now, Hysolate has been driving the practice of establishing a separate, virtual operating system on a user’s endpoint, preserving a pristine environment for sensitive corporate work while relegating higher-risk activities (including accessing third-party content) to the virtual environment. Today’s announcement of the general availability of Hysolate Free, providing immediate, no-cost access to enhanced sandbox technology, will encourage IT and security teams to explore and understand the merits and advantages of centrally-managed OS isolation for the distributed workers and teams they support.

    Additional read:

    About Hysolate

    Hysolate enables organizations to isolate risky or sensitive activities on users’ endpoints with a local workspace that isolates applications and data. Hysolate has reinvented how an isolated virtual environment is instantly deployed on a user’s device and remotely managed from the cloud. With Hysolate you can “split” the user’s device into two isolated environments so users can work freely and be productive without compromising security.

    Hysolate is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Team8 and Planven Capital. For more information, visit https://www.hysolate.com or follow Hysolate on Twitter @hysolatenow.

  • Logi Analytics Launches New Capabilities to Provide Self-Service For Every User

    Logi Composer 6 expands ultimate control over user experience with context and security at the center

    Raleigh, NC, May 19, 2021 — Logi Analytics, an insightsoftware company and the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software teams, today launched new capabilities within Logi Composer, the first out-of-the-box development experience for embedded analytics. Logi Composer 6 provides enhanced control over the user experience with a framework of event listeners, self-service capabilities with dashboard interactivity and enterprise-grade security at every layer.

    Recent research from Logi Analytics and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found that 49% of data leaders are investing in new analytics vendors and self-service to help close the skills gap. Logi Composer goes beyond simple visualizations and personalizes self-service with control over the self-service experience including resizing, layout, filters, links and creating cross-source connections, empowering self-service users to build their own dashboards with the level of sophistication that matches their needs.

    “End users want an analytics experience within their existing applications where they can customize, manipulate and query data to gain insights and empower decision making,” said Charles Caldwell, Vice President, Product Management at Logi Analytics. “And too many self-service solutions don’t match the needs and skill-level of the user. With this release, Logi Composer provides software teams a low-code, secure solution that will exceed users’ personalization and self-service requirements and offer administrators granular control to tune the analytics experience for different personas and user sophistication.”

    Logi Composer also prioritizes enterprise security, maintaining precise control in multi-tenant deployments with granular data security controls for rows and columns. Additionally, Composer simplifies collaboration and sharing with object-level security for dashboards and sources that control data access and user permissions.

    Key features include:

    • Improved application workflow by embedding multiple independent dashboards that bring together the right data and related context to your application experience.

    • Ability to leverage new arc and combination charts to build range-based and multidimensional visualizations for analytics dashboards in your application.

    • Enhanced self-service experience with new drill-down, time-interval and summary aggregations feature for tabular visuals and reports.

    • Improved capabilities for running sophisticated queries in multi-tenant deployments with support for variables in custom queries.

    • OAuth integration for user authorization to seamlessly embed analytics in your application for a frictionless end user experience.

    To learn more about Logi Composer and Logi Analytics, visit www.logianalytics.com/

    About Logi Analytics

    Logi Analytics, an insightsoftware company, empowers the world’s software teams with the most intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions, along with a group of dedicated people invested in your success. Logi leverages your existing tech stack so you can quickly build, manage and deploy your application. And because Logi supports unlimited customization and white-labeling, you have total control to make the application uniquely your own. Over 2,400 application teams have trusted Logi to help power their businesses with sophisticated analytics capabilities. Logi Analytics was recently awarded the 2020 “Best Business Intelligence Solution” Proddy award by Product School, in addition to being named a leader in Business Application Research Center’s (BARC) BI & Analytics Survey 21 across several categories, including Operational BI, Embedded BI, and Cloud BI.

    Logi Analytics is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices in Ireland, England, Ukraine, and China. Learn more about what’s possible with Logi at LogiAnalytics.com.

    About insightsoftware

    insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise performance management software. We enable the Office of the CFO to connect to and make sense of their enterprise data in real time so they can proactively drive greater financial intelligence across their organization, which is how best-in-class finance teams operate. Over 25,000 organizations worldwide rely on insightsoftware’s portfolio of best-in-class reporting, analytics, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and tax solutions to provide them with increased productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance. Visit insightsoftware.com for more information.

  • Hysolate Launches Free OS Isolation Offering, Taking Windows Sandbox Technology to the Next Level

    Hysolate Free offers users no-cost isolated virtual workspaces to isolate risky activities and protect enterprises from phishing and malware

    Tel Aviv and New York, May 19, 2021 — Hysolate, a virtual workspace innovator for security-aware enterprises, today announced the general availability of Hysolate Free, an instantly deployable OS isolation solution that empowers workers to protect corporate assets by isolating risky activities in a local VM on their laptops. Hysolate is the first company to extend the isolation technology behind Microsoft’s Windows Sandbox to provide a completely persistent isolated workspace for any application and data on a user’s endpoint. 

    In a global business environment where it’s generally accepted that up to 70 percent of security breaches originate at the endpoint, workers still need to access documents, applications, websites, peripherals, and cloud services beyond the security perimeter to perform routine tasks comprising their job descriptions. Using Hysolate, workers can browse the web freely, download content and install applications in a safe virtual workspace on their laptops without compromising their endpoints’ security or exposing the corporate domain to the perils of phishing and malware. Hysolate Free gives users the option of relegating these activities to an isolated virtual workspace on their laptops, making these tasks worry-free. 

    According to the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways, “Before COVID-19, we saw the growth of popular SaaS applications, such as Salesforce and Microsoft Office 365, drive ‘direct to internet’ connections from branch offices, which also drove the adoption of cloud-based security services. Many enterprises are now seeking more than just a proxy service in the cloud, as they add zero trust network access (ZTNA), remote browser isolation (RBI), sandbox, firewall as a service (FWaaS), data loss prevention (DLP), and other cloud-based security services.”[1]

    [1] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways, Lawrence Orans, John Watts, 8 December 2020

    “In the new world without a perimeter, employee devices have become the cornerstone of corporate IT,” said Admiral Michael Rogers, Former Head of NSA. “Hysolate has reinvented how organizations can isolate applications and data on users’ devices and, by doing so, significantly reduce the risk on the endpoint. For those companies that are adopting zero trust concepts, the integrity of the endpoint is a key element alongside verifying the user’s identity. As employees continue to work from anywhere, they need a security solution that makes their day-to-day work secure yet productive.”

    “Endpoints continue to provide a major entry point for malware into the organization, moreso today with the demand for hybrid workforce support,” said Hysolate CEO Marc Gaffan. “To dramatically reduce that exposure, we are extending Microsoft’s virtualization-based security to cover any Windows application and user data that are not supported using existing Windows sandboxing technology. This includes downloading popular modern productivity and collaboration applications such as Adobe Reader, Zoom and Slack, opening questionable files and email attachments, accessing any cloud service, using external hard drives, and other typical activities beyond just web browsing.”

    VM-based isolation has received significant attention stemming from Microsoft’s recently announced enhancements to its Windows Sandbox product. While the changes represent an upgrade to the underlying virtualization technology, they do not cover all Windows applications, and don’t allow for a persistent environment where users can save their data and keep it isolated from their existing OS. While Windows Sandbox offers a volatile sandbox, mainly used by security researchers, Hysolate makes this technology available to the masses within an enterprise to seamlessly isolate zero-day attacks or malware riding on external sources like email attachments, executables, or external flash drives — without changing how users work. It also offers enterprise-grade centralized management capabilities and advanced network security capabilities. 

    For several years now, Hysolate has been driving the practice of establishing a separate, virtual operating system on a user’s endpoint, preserving a pristine environment for sensitive corporate work while relegating higher-risk activities (including accessing third-party content) to the virtual environment. Today’s announcement of the general availability of Hysolate Free, providing immediate, no-cost access to enhanced sandbox technology, will encourage IT and security teams to explore and understand the merits and advantages of centrally-managed OS isolation for the distributed workers and teams they support.

    Additional read:

    About Hysolate

    Hysolate enables organizations to isolate risky or sensitive activities on users’ endpoints with a local workspace that isolates applications and data. Hysolate has reinvented how an isolated virtual environment is instantly deployed on a user’s device and remotely managed from the cloud. With Hysolate you can “split” the user’s device into two isolated environments so users can work freely and be productive without compromising security.

    Hysolate is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Team8 and Planven Capital. For more information, visit https://www.hysolate.com or follow Hysolate on Twitter @hysolatenow.

  • Britive Raises $10m To Secure Privileged Access For Multi-Cloud Enterprises

    Los Angeles, CA, May 19, 2021 — Britive, a cloud-native dynamic access management platform, today announced it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Crosslink Capital with participation from seed round investors Upfront Ventures and One Way Ventures.

    “Security teams today have to deal with a dizzying array of security tools  from CASBs, PAMs, IGAs, CIEMs, SSPMs, and more—and they still lack insight and control over human and machine identities and permissions in cloud platforms and applications,” said Art Poghosyan, CEO of Britive. “This leaves organizations open to breaches often caused by privilege misconfigurations, overly broad permissions, and abuse of privileged credentials. Britive’s approach of combining Just-in-Time permissioning with secrets governance capabilities dramatically improves cloud security by minimizing a company’s attack surface.”

    Britive’s Dynamic Permissioning Platform takes the complexity and time out of securing identities and permissions across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Oracle Cloud. The platform provides companies with the ability to automatically grant Just-In-Time permissions, auto-expire permissions, enforce least privilege access, right-size broad permissions and more.

    Poghosyan adds, “Another trend we’re seeing is the rise of DevSecOps across the enterprise, which is also accelerating due to high profile attacks like SolarWinds. This close relationship between security and cloud development experts requires that security be extended into CI/CD processes. This is precisely what we enable for DevSecOps teams—without adding additional complexity or management overhead.”

    The funding comes on the heels of significant momentum for Britive, marked by 300 percent year-over-year growth. Britive already serves a number of high-growth companies and Fortune 500 firms across a variety of industries.

    “Britive’s cloud-native privileged access solution is a game changer for our DevSecOps initiatives,” said Martin Mkrtchian, VP of Information Security, Vubiquity. It has enabled us to provide just-in-time temporarily elevated privileges and secret key rotations, while maintaining the principle of zero trust security.”

    The company will use the new capital to accelerate go-to-market, support innovation and product development, and enable the further protection of highly-complex cloud platforms and applications from data loss and account takeovers.

    “With no end in sight for high profile breaches, cloud security continues to be a top priority for enterprises around the world,” said Matt Bigge, Partner, Crosslink Capital. “The Britive Platform is truly revolutionary in that it enables organizations to migrate to a DevSecOps model by baking security into their CI/CD processes, while accelerating cloud app development. We’ve been following their progress and are excited to join Art and his team at this exciting time in their growth trajectory.”

    About Britive
    Britive (www.britive.com) is a cloud-native security solution built for the most demanding cloud-forward enterprises. The Britive platform empowers teams across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and security functions with dynamic and intelligent privileged access administration solutions for multi-cloud environments. Using deep API-based integrations, our patent-pending technology orchestrates permissioning for the modern enterprise cloud infrastructure and applications. The Britive platform helps organizations implement cloud security best practices like Just-In-Time (JIT) access and zero standing privileges (ZSP) to prevent security breaches and operational disruptions, while increasing efficiency and user productivity. Customers include medium to large businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises across healthcare, automotive, retail, media & entertainment, and other industries. Britive was founded by security industry veterans with a track record as successful entrepreneurs and innovators.

  • Cynerio Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding to Secure Mission-Critical Medical and IoT Devices in Hospitals and Health Systems

    Funds will expand Cynerio’s US presence, with North American HQ in New York City, as well as its international market reach, and power the development of its advanced healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management platform

    New York, NY, May 19, 2021 — Cynerio, the leading provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, announced today that it secured $30 million in Series B funding. The investment round was led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund, Israel’s pioneering HealthTech investment fund, headed by former health system officials, medical professionals, and veteran medtech entrepreneurs. Existing investors, global VC Accelmed, RDC, Elron’s joint venture with Rafael, and Swiss-based growth investor, MTIP, also participated in the funding round. ALIVE co-investors, CBG London investment company owned by Vincent Tchenguiz, also participated in the round and additional co-investors will join as well, including a leading UAE based investment group.

    Cynerio will use the funding to fully realize its vision of being the healthcare industry’s go-to cybersecurity and asset management solution by expanding its channel program, forming strategic partnerships with leading solution providers and expanding its clinically-intelligent toolbox of preemptive and proactive Zero Trust solutions into a full-service, responsive security platform. The funding will further support the acceleration of technological development and enhance support to Cynerio’s existing customers, while reinforcing its leading position in North America as well as its global expansion.

    “It’s critical to have partners who intimately understand the healthcare industry and its exceptional needs, especially now with the unprecedented pressures COVID-19 has introduced. Cynerio is extremely grateful for the continued faith and support of Elron, Accelmed and MTIP,” said Leon Lerman, CEO and co-founder of Cynerio. “With the additional backing of ALIVE and their expertise in the US healthcare system, we’ll be able to continue advancing our product offerings to support healthcare providers, with unparalleled threat detection, preemptive security and response capabilities, while alleviating healthcare’s coinciding operational challenges.”

    Cynerio grew substantially in 2020, concluding the year with a 300% year-over-year revenue increase. The company was recognized as the industry Leader in Forrester’s Connected Medical Device Security, Q2 Report and named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the 2020 Security Report, further highlighting the strength of Cynerio’s solutions and its unique approach to Healthcare IoT cybersecurity.

    “We’re very excited to lead this investment round in Cynerio, the industry leader,” said Dudi Klein, Managing Partner at ALIVE. “As a team of veteran healthcare leaders, we know the importance of healthcare cybersecurity first-hand. Cynerio’s exceptional team has created an intuitive, cost-effective and high-quality suite of solutions that healthcare professionals can rely on to protect their patients, staff, and business integrity with confidence.”

    As COVID-19 continues to strain the global healthcare industry, barrages of cyber attacks accentuate the need for robust healthcare-specific security and automated asset management solutions. To meet and exceed those needs, Cynerio scaled from a security solution focused only on medical devices to a full-suite, one-stop-shop Healthcare IoT cybersecurity platform that covers every threat vector on every connected device. The clinically-intelligent platform automates asset discovery and risk reduction, and takes the evolution of IoT security one step beyond visibility, providing healthcare teams with the ability to not just identify more problems on their network, but to actually solve them and secure their organization to ensure patient safety, data integrity and operational continuity.

    For additional information and to view Cynerio solutions, visit http://www.cynerio.com.

    About Cynerio
    Cynerio is the one-stop-shop Healthcare IoT security platform. With solutions that cater to healthcare’s every IT need – from Enterprise IoT to OT and IoMT – we promote cross-organizational alignment and give hospitals the control, foresight, and adaptability they require to stay cyber-secure in a constantly evolving threatscape. We give healthcare organizations the power to stay compliant and proactively manage every connection on their own terms with powerful asset management, threat detection, and mitigation tools so you can focus on healthcare’s top priority: delivering quality patient care. For more information visit http://www.cynerio.com, or follow Cynerio on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

  • 90% of DevOps and IT Professionals Believe AppSec Responsibility Will be Shared by DevOps and Security Within Three Years

    New ZeroNorth Research Highlights the Current State of AppSec and the Journey to DevSecOps

    Boston, MA, May 19, 2021 – At DevSecOps Days of the RSA Conference 2021, ZeroNorth, the only company to unite security, DevOps and the business for the good of software, today released a new research report: “The Journey to True DevSecOps,” with survey results from 250 global security, DevOps and IT professionals. The study shows that while the perceived benefits of DevSecOps to both security and DevOps are high, much progress must be made in defining a repeatable and consistent governance model for true DevSecOps to take hold.

    The study highlights how roles, responsibilities, and ownership of application security (AppSec) must be clearly defined as part of a DevSecOps governance model, something lacking in today’s environment. Specifically, the survey finds that while 76% of developers and engineers believe DevOps will own AppSec within three years, only 56% of AppSec professionals agree.

    “We are at an inflection point where software security has become the foundation for enterprise security,” said John Worrall, CEO at ZeroNorth. “The push toward true DevSecOps will strengthen security and improve the products that DevOps deliver. That said, our study shows progress needs to be made on many fronts – most notably DevSecOps governance, process, and culture – for companies to see this promise materialize.”

    Security Governance Takes Center Stage

    Key to the topic of governance is the notion of responsibility. While the question of “Will DevOps own AppSec?” remains up for grabs, the study demonstrates how a shared responsibility model for AppSec is likely to emerge. In fact, 90% of participants said it is, indeed, likely that responsibility will be shared across DevOps and Security teams in the next three years.

    While AppSec has historically centered on tooling, DevOps has been built with process and governance, enabled through automation and orchestration. As AppSec and DevOps come together into DevSecOps, discrepancies become clear. For example, while 58% of companies developing more than 31 applications annually say their continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes have been fully automated, only 17% of respondents say they have a fully automated development process that includes security.

    Among the key findings from the research:

    • Automation and Orchestration are enabling DevSecOps: 91% of respondents agree or strongly agree that integrating AppSec tools into DevOps pipelines through automation will be critical to the success of DevSecOps; 88% believe orchestration of tools within CI/CD pipelines will be required.
    • Adjusting the Security Mindset: DevSecOps requires a culture change across Security and DevOps – and 73% of participants agree Security must rethink the way it partners with Development for DevSecOps to succeed.
    • Enabling Security in the Journey to DevSecOps: The survey also demonstrates key things Security must understand about DevOps, including the SDLC, tools and technical benefits. But there are actions Dev teams can take to support this journey. For example, 59% of respondents said Dev could promote DevOps best practices; 50% said Dev should include Security in DevOps planning sessions, and 46% said Dev should assign a DevOps Champion to the Security organization.

    Other topics explored in the research:

    • Challenges and benefits of DevSecOps
    • The role of leadership in the journey to DevSecOps
    • Impact of DevOps on organizations’ risk posture

    The full research report may be found at http://go.zeronorth.io/TrueDevSecOps.

    About ZeroNorth

    ZeroNorth brings security, DevOps and the business together to improve application security performance and reduce organizational risk. The company’s DevSecOps platform enables organizations to automate and orchestrate key components of their application security program, and to rapidly identify, prioritize and remove the vulnerabilities standing in the way of software excellence. In an age where the security of applications needs to be everyone’s responsibility, ZeroNorth is where organizations come together for the good of software. Learn more at www.zeronorth.io

  • Text IQ for Privacy Debuts, First AI Solution to Meet Demands of Privacy 2.0

    New AI solution enables enterprises to easily and accurately identify personal and sensitive information hidden in unstructured data 

    San Francisco, CA, May 18, 2021 – Text IQ, a Top 100 AI company helping organizations manage and mitigate risks in their data, announced today the launch of Text IQ for Privacy, a pioneering AI solution that identifies and categorizes personal and sensitive information hidden in the exploding volume of enterprise data.

    In this new era, dubbed Privacy 2.0, characterized by the increasing threat of data breaches, the proliferation of unstructured data, and heavier regulatory requirements, Text IQ for Privacy will enable enterprises to proactively manage personal information, particularly hard-to-find sensitive information which otherwise remains hidden in large unstructured data sets.

    Text IQ’s system automates the discovery of personal and sensitive information, returns accurate and relevant results, reduces the need for human review, and significantly lowers costs. At a time when protecting privacy has become a daunting task for enterprises worldwide, Text IQ for Privacy is faster and more accurate than traditional approaches. Powered by breakthrough AI and unsupervised machine-learning techniques, Text IQ for Privacy automatically identifies and categorizes personal and sensitive information from both structured and unstructured sources, enabling redaction and deduplication before presenting the findings for human review. In a recent study of the personal-data detection solutions of the top three cloud providers, Text IQ’s AI established itself as a far superior technology.

    Privacy 2.0: Data Breaches, Stricter Regulatory Requirements, and Rising Customer Expectations & DSARs

    Text IQ for Privacy is the first solution designed to meet the numerous privacy-protection requirements enterprises face today. Chief privacy officers must strike a careful balance between responding to the demands of Privacy 2.0 while meeting the business needs of collecting and storing data. Enterprises must manage ever expanding amounts of personal and sensitive data, such as a customer’s financial records, precise geo-location, race, religion, and medical history. In a recent survey by The International Association of Privacy Professionals, the majority of respondents named “locating unstructured personal data” as the most difficult task involved when responding to Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR).

    “What sets us apart is the ability of Text IQ for Privacy to accurately identify personal and sensitive data equally well from structured and unstructured sources,” said Apoorv Agarwal, Text IQ’s co-founder and CEO. “Most solutions available now can find relevant data from within structured sources. But finding it from within unstructured sources — 80% of today’s enterprise data — is a much higher hill to climb. Another exceptional feature is the speed. We empower companies to move at the velocity they need when responding to data requests and breaches.”

    Text IQ Goes Above and Beyond Traditional Search Methods

    Traditional search methods typically fall short when it comes to data containing information such as a person’s religious beliefs and medical history, which can be sensitive when seen in context and hard to identify because it is largely found strewn in unstructured data. The Text IQ for Privacy solution zeroes in on this kind of data by deploying an adaptive AI Brain that incorporates a human-centric Socio-Linguistic Hypergraph.

    Text IQ for Privacy includes these key capabilities:

    • Data Categorization, to accurately identify sensitive information and eliminate manual data mapping.
    • Discovery & Redaction, to accurately identify personal information and reduce disclosure risk.
    • Data Breach Response, to automatically deduplicate and associate data to entities, thereby reducing response time by 50%.
    • DSAR Fulfillment Automation, to meet aggressive request deadlines and reduce manual review by 75%.

    “Our customers tell us that in addition to the cost savings they’re seeing from Text IQ for Privacy, they’re also feeling more at ease when the pressure is on to find personal information,” said Omar Haroun, Text IQ’s co-founder and COO. “Because the software returns more accurate information than other solutions, the risks associated with failing to find relevant data and meeting regulatory requirements is greatly reduced.”

    To learn more about Text IQ for Privacy, visit go.textiq.com/privacy.

    ABOUT TEXT IQ

    Text IQ is a B2B technology company with a reimagined approach to using AI to manage and mitigate risks in enterprise data. Our Unstructured Data Platform helps Global 2000 and government organizations identify sensitive information to reduce risk, protect privacy and create a fair, inclusive and diverse workplace. The Text IQ Brain, powered by our Socio-Linguistic Hypergraph, uncovers 99% of sensitive information at a 75% reduction in cost and time, and is used at the world’s leading financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical and government organizations, including AstraZeneca, Novartis, Cardinal Health, Carnival, Honeywell, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Since its founding in 2014, Text IQ has achieved record revenue growth. Backed by FirstMark and Sierra Ventures, the company employs nearly 100 and was recently recognized in the AI Top 100.

    To learn more about Text IQ, visit textiq.com.