SAP Buys CIAM Vendor Gigya
Today, SAP announced it has acquired Mountain View, CA based Customer Identity and Access (CIAM) provider Gigya. Several media outlets placed the purchase price…
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Privacy, security & risk
Cisco buys Cloud Security Gateway vendor CloudLock for $293M
Given Symantec's recent acquisiton of BlueCoat (and with it BlueCoat's earlier acquired Elastica and Perspecsys cloud security gateway (CSG) assets), and IBM's organic buildout of…
June 28, 2016
Privacy, security & risk
Blue Coat Systems Buy Elastica after Perspecsys
As we predicted in our Brief: The Emergence of the Cloud Security Gateway, this market is consolidating fast. Blue Coat Systems announced this morning…
November 9, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Fingerprint authentication enters online banking at Bank of America – and signals FIDO’s first major adoption event
Bank of America's website and press release says that you can use your TouchID on iOS to sign into BofA's mobile application on…
October 8, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
CyberArk acquires ViewFinity underscores endpoint privilege escalation’s importance in privileged identity and access management
Today's acquistion of ViewFinity (an endpoint privilege escalation vendor) by CyberArk signals an important taxonomy shift in Priivileged Identity / Access Management. Of major PIM…
October 7, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Microsoft Acquires Cloud Access Security Intelligence vendor Adallom
Microsoft is doubling down on its cloud strategy and announced the acquisition of Adallom. Adallom offers transparent, cloud-based monitoring and alerting of cloud application use.
July 20, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Samsung keyboard bug highlights vulnerability of passwords
Here's a new exploit on Samsung Galaxy S4, S4 and S6 Swiftkey: remote code execution is possible which can lead to root access to…
June 17, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Market Overview: Cloud Workload Security Management Solutions — Automate Or Die
Today, not moving workloads to the cloud is not an option. Leaving these workloads not secured is also not an option. However, managing workloads within…
June 2, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Market Overview: Cloud Data Protection
Cloud Data Protection (protecting data in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS workloads with a centralized and industrial strenght solution) remains a key priority of CIOs, CISOs…
February 26, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Amazon Web Services Announces Cloud Active Directory
As we predicted in May 2012, user directories are moving into the cloud. Cloud workloads require that users who are authorized to access them…