Last week, Wiz announced the acquisition of cloud detection and response specialist vendor Gem Security. The move confirms Wiz’s strategic intent to build a comprehensive cloud security portfolio and will accelerate its revenue growth and product innovation, keeping Wiz on a trajectory toward a likely future IPO. Native and third-party cloud threat detection is a ..read more

Your cloud usage continues to grow. The types of workloads you’re migrating are trending increasingly mission-critical. Your cloud governance must match this new reality. For this reason, along with new and developing industry regulations, growing sovereignty requirements, and a plethora of breaches/vulnerabilities, companies are revisiting or standing up governance programs that have not existed in ..read more

On February 21st, 2024, Change Healthcare, one of the major pharmacy claims processors in the United States, detected a cybersecurity incident and took its systems offline, causing disruptions to pharmacies and medical providers across the country. UnitedHealth Group, its owner, immediately acknowledged this incident in an 8-K filing to the SEC on Feb 21. The healthcare ecosystem of ..read more

It's time to take a look back and score our 2023 cloud predictions. Find out where we accurately predicted cloud trends and where we missed the mark for cloud in 2023 ..read more

Last week, Amazon.com VP and CTO Werner Vogels closed out re:Invent 2023 with his keynote address on the “frugal architect.” This isn’t the first time that Vogels has introduced this topic. In fact, it was a theme he originally introduced in 2012 that revolves around architecting with cost in mind. To me, and likely to ..read more

October 30, 2023 came and passed — the date that marked the end of Broadcom’s fiscal year and the promised close for its $61 billion VMware acquisition. In anticipation of that timing, VMware shareholders were given until October 23 to decide whether to accept Broadcom shares at $142.5 per share or cash payment, of which ..read more

The wait is over: The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platform Providers, Q3 2023, is live! In 2020, Forrester published The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. Three years later, many of the capabilities that were once considered “extended” are now core to Zero Trust. Therefore, we dropped the extended and are ..read more

One of the most common questions we get from CISOs – and CIOs – is whether they should accept vendor consolidation and add more Microsoft to their security stack or do everything in their power to fight against it. For the last few months, we’ve spoken to those leaders via inquiries, guidance sessions, and research ..read more

On Sept 21, Cisco announced its intention to buy Splunk for $28B in cash, it’s largest acquisition ever and fourth this year. This is a massive investment and win for Cisco from two perspectives: observability and security. Cisco’s full-stack observability platform could catapult into relevance against established competitors overnight. Similarly on the security side, Cisco ..read more

Curious about Zero Trust in the cloud? Learn more about it in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Forum ..read more