Vendors
Aqua
Aqua Security is a cloud-native security company headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel. It was founded in 2015 with the mission to protect cloud native assets. It is one of the pioneers among the dedicated cloud-native security solution providers.
Why worth watching
As well as providing security solutions, it also maintains a large open-source ecosystem with projects like Trivy, a container vulnerability scanner.
Check Point
Check Point is a global leader in cybersecurity, founded in Tel Aviv in 1993. The company also offers next-generation firewalls, edge security solutions, IoT security gateways, VPNs, cloud security solutions, and complete SOC management solutions.
Why worth watching
In 2023, the company announced the acquisition of Perimeter 81, a cloud and network security company specializing in secure remote access and internet security solutions based on a Zero Trust architecture.
Cisco
Cisco was founded in 1984 and its headquarters are located in San Jose, California. With presence in more than 100 countries, the company has customers in manufacturing, transportation, mining, power utilities, oil & gas, and water utilities sectors.
Why worth watching
For organizations that utilize Cisco solutions, the Duo platform is a compelling case for workforce access, remote work, and hybrid scenarios.
CloudDefense.AI
CloudDefense.AI was founded in 2020 and provides solutions to help enterprises protect their cloud applications and infrastructure from cyber-attacks. It has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California with development centers in India, UK, and USA. It provides products that cover cloud security and application security.
Why worth watching
Cloud Defense.AI offers two major products, these are CloudDefense ACS Cloud Security and CloudDefense DevSecOps. Both are delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service).
Crowdstrike
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a global cybersecurity company, providing modern security with advanced cloud-native platforms for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data.
Why worth watching
Organizations looking for CSPM, CWPP, and CIEM as well as EASM and ASPM capabilities as part of a comprehensive security portfolio with strong XDR capabilities should consider CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security
IBM
IBM Corporation is a multinational technology and consulting company headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. Founded in 1911, IBM has evolved from a computing hardware manufacturer into offering a broad range of software solutions, infrastructure hosting, and consulting services in such high-value markets as business intelligence, data analytics, cloud computing, virtualization, information security, and identity and access management. With a strong global presence and customers and partners across the globe, IBM is a major player in the market.
Why worth watching
Organizations that are looking for mature, highly scalable, and secure enterprise authentication solutions built on state-of-the-art micro-services architecture should put IBM on the list of solutions to consider.
Lacework
Lacework is a cloud security solution provider based in Mountain View, California, which was founded in 2015. The Lacework Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform helps organizations secure their use of cloud services by continuously monitoring and protecting cloud-native applications.
Why worth watching
It is designed to correlate data from across the customer’s entire cloud life cycle to secure the apps and the cloud infrastructure they use from build time through runtime.
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management service focused on facilitating business to consumer applications and providing enterprise authentication capabilities.
Why worth watching
Microsoft Azure Active Directory has the scalability and performance to provide organizations with three options and feature-rich capabilities. The solution should be on the shortlist for any organization looking for robust enterprise authentication services.
Orca Security
Orca Security was founded in 2019 and has its headquarters in Portland, Oregon, with R&D in Israel.
Why worth watching
Orca Security offers a Cloud Security Platform that provides a zero-touch approach to cloud security.
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks, founded in 2005 in Santa Clara, California, is the pioneer in Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) technology. Palo Alto Networks also offers endpoint security, SASE, SOAR, XDR, threat intelligence feeds, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), and other security products.
Why worth watching
Palo Alto Networks has connectors for Axonius, ServiceNow, Sevco, and Venafi Asset Management; JIRA and ServiceNow ITSM; Brinqa Risk Management; IBM QRadar and Splunk SIEM; Cisco, Ivanti, Qualys, Rapid7, and Tenable VMS; and deeper integrations with other products in the Palo Alto Networks’ portfolio.
Sysdig
Sysdig was founded in 2013 and has its corporate HQ in San Francisco, CA in the USA, but nearly 45% of employees are outside the United States.
Why worth watching
It also offers CIEM capabilities to help customers get a comprehensive view into access permissions across AWS accounts, including ephemeral services such as Lambda functions; eliminate excessive permissions by applying least-privilege policies; and regularly perform access reviews to evaluate active and inactive user permissions and activity.
Uptycs
Uptycs is a venture funded technology company that was founded in 2016 and has its headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Why worth watching
Uptycs features out-of-the-box rules to help organizations audit their cloud resource configurations against a wide range of security benchmarks and regulatory frameworks.
