By 2025, there will be 55.7 billion connected IoT devices (or “things”), generating almost 80B zettabytes (ZB) of data. These are just some of the statistics that underscore enormous opportunity in IoT—and the enormous security risks all those IoT devices create.
It’s hard to think about personal digital safety and enterprise cybersecurity without referencing passwords. This is why I’m excited that Lookout has acquired SaferPass, an innovative Password Management company that provides secure online identity solutions for both consumers and businesses of all sizes. With the rise in identity theft and threats that seek to compromise corporate applications and emails, passwords offer a critical line of defense.
Over the last 25 years, WatchGuard has driven consistent innovation and growth. In recent years that growth accelerated significantly—fueled by our aggressive portfolio expansion and our ability to build and retain an enviable channel community—as we united behind the mission of making enterprise-grade security accessible to all customers via Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
Let me tell you a story. Not a bedtime story or the sort of happy-ending story you’d read to your kids. This is a darker, much more serious story. It’s a story about cybersecurity. Specifically, it’s a story about attack stories. You may be asking yourself, what is an attack story? Every cyberattack has a story. And that story consists of a sequence of steps adversaries take to learn, access and control the resources and data of the victims they’re pursuing.
On the heels of our significant growth investment from TA Associates, we are pleased to announce our acquisition of auto-remediation technology from Jaroona. Jaroona’s intelligent remediation technology accelerates Veracode’s vision and strategy to automatically detect and remediate software vulnerabilities. Jaroona was recognized as a Gartner Inc. 2021 Cool Vendor for DevSecOps.
We’re excited to announce that Snyk and TopCoat are joining forces. TopCoat and its founders — Seth and Josh Rosen — are well established and respected in the data analytics space. They’ve built a powerful data analytics platform that simplifies building data applications through an integration with dbt, allowing data analysts and engineers to quickly create highly customized data reporting and visualizations.
Today, I am excited to announce Snyk’s acquisition of Fugue and welcome their team to the Snyk family. The addition of Fugue to Snyk’s platform will allow us to continue our mission to help developers find and fix security issues in the applications they create, by providing visibility into the security of applications and the cloud services they use. But it’s about more than just visibility of the cloud posture.
