📡 TCP #59: Earnings SZN; Wiz Code and More New Products
📡 TCP #59: Earnings SZN; Wiz Code and More New Products
Security Product News | Aug. 28th - Sept. 11th, 2024
Welcome to Issue 59 of The Cybersecurity Pulse! I'm Darwin Salazar, Product Manager at Monad and a former Detection Engineer. Each week, I distill the latest and most exciting developments in cybersecurity innovation into digestible, bite-sized updates. If you’re serious about staying at the forefront of the latest in security products and industry news make sure to hit the “Subscribe” button below to get my insights delivered straight to your inbox every week 📩 🚀
Whats up! Welcome to another issue of TCP. I’m back from some much needed time off and feeling great heading into the last quarter-ish of the year. Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m a huge advocate for taking a step back from “the grind” to decompress and enjoy the things that matter most in life. Life is short. You will die. Enjoy the journey.
Anyhow, let’s cyber ⬇️
Picks of the Week🎯
Doug Merritt: Creating a decacorn in Splunk and identifying trends
Former CEO of Splunk joins the Inside the Network (ITN) crew to talk about his journey in scaling Splunk to a decacorn between 2016 - 2021 and life post-Splunk.
Haven’t dug into this one yet but given how the rest of the world has received it, it’s another banger from the ITN crew 🔥
Public security companies earnings recap
Most, if not all, publicly traded security companies just reported quarterly earnings over the past 5 weeks.
Missed it? Don’t worry, Cole Grolmus has you covered. Below are the earning recaps for:
Announcing the IT-Harvest Cyber 150
A list of the top 150 fastest growing cybersecurity companies by
🔥.Lifting the world out of the cybersecurity poverty
The term “Cybersecurity Poverty Line” was coined some time in the early 2010s. This piece, written recently by
and , takes a look at where things are today and required approaches required to close the poverty gap in security.Hint: It’s not just more security products! It requires a collective approach across all vectors of the industry.
The future of automotive cybersecurity: Treating vehicles as endpoints
As a former red team intern at a vehicle manufacturer, automotive security is near and dear to my heart. This is a great piece that highlights the mindset shift happening in automative sec and in the broader IoT security community.
P0 Security raises $15M Series A
Cloud IAM is a cluster f*ck. It’s the main reason why VCs have invested $100m+ at the “non-human identity” and other identity security solutions in 2024 alone.
Earlier this week, p0 raised $15M from SYN, Lightspeed, and Zscaler to help tackle identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM). The startup came out of stealth ~10 months ago so massive kudos to them on this milestone!
Product News 📰
Application security
Introducing Wiz Code: transform your AppSec with Wiz
Just yesterday, Wiz unveiled their ‘Wiz Code’ solution which integrates with their CNAPP offering (and IDEs + VCS) to provide a true “code-to-cloud” experience.
Wiz Code extends Wiz Cloud’s capabilities by correlating critical attack paths and cloud risks back to their source code and the developer, offering remediation directly within the code. - Yinon Costica, CPO and Co-founder at Wiz
The new capabilities include:
Extended Security Graph mapping to across the entire SDLC and into the cloud
Policy engine now covers code, cloud, and runtime which covers the gamut of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to detecting open source vulns, exposed secrets and IaC misconfigurations.
Integration with IDEs such as VS Code which helps detect and remediate security risks directly from development environments.
Posture management for VCS and CI/CD systems.
Kudos to Wiz on this major milestone. This really shakes up the game and ups the ante for many AppSec vendors.
Rest of AppSec product news ⬇️
JFrog unveils new runtime security and Nvidia integration for AI model protection
Tenable AI Aware provides exposure insight into AI applications, libraries and plugins
Cloud security
CAST AI, a widely-adopted Kubernetes cost optimization company, has launched a KSPM solution. New revenue stream play?
Rest of CloudSec product news ⬇️
Netskope accelerates cloud networking and security operations
Tufin improves security automation on Azure, GCP, and VMware clouds
Data Security
Prompt Security launches solution for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Prompt has launched a solution that helps prevent many of the security risks associated with enterprise copilots including inadvertent sensitive data exposure. Would be nice if Microsoft provided these security guardrails by default..
Rest of Data Security product news ⬇️
Identity Security
HYCU extends support to Microsoft Entra ID
HYCU, a backup service provider, extends supports for Entra ID to provide tenant restoration capabilities. This type of feature can save serious time, money, and sanity in the case of a ransomware attack given the importance and prevalence of Entra ID as an identity provider.
Rest of Identity Security product news ⬇️
SecOps
Huntress launches Managed SIEM for SMBs
The managed SIEM is different than traditional SIEMs as it is meant for the SMB market and hyper-focuses on cost + noise reduction and is tailored for small SecOps teams. This is the way 🧙🏽♂️
Rest of SecOps product news ⬇️
Partnerships
Bye For Now!
That’s all for this week… ¡Nos vemos la próxima semana! 👋🏽