Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), a San Francisco, CA-based connectivity cloud company, acquired Kivera, a NYC-based provider of a cloud security, data protection, and compliance platform.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
With the integration of Kivera’s technology, Cloudflare’s SASE platform will soon bring additional, preventive cloud security all within a unified platform. Together, the companies will allow customers to:
- Safeguard all of their cloud environments: By detecting and then alerting security teams of cloud misconfigurations, the integration of Kivera’s technology creates a first line of defense for cloud deployment errors–across all of the major cloud providers.
- Enable preventive security: Now organizations will be able to instantly protect themselves from cloud breaches caused by misconfigurations and human error, like accidentally allowing public access or policy inconsistencies.
- Keep sensitive data inside their organization: By drawing boundaries around their cloud resources and tenants, customers will be able to enforce cloud tenant controls that ensure sensitive data is not shared with external parties accidentally.
- Reduce ‘shadow’ cloud infrastructure: Every interaction between a customer and their cloud provider is enforced within preset standards, mitigating the risks of shadow IT that can lead to security vulnerabilities, compliance breaches, unmanaged costs, and data leakage.
- Streamline cloud security compliance: Customers can automatically assess and enforce compliance rules against the most common regulatory frameworks.
Led by Vernon Jefferson, Kivera empowers organisation governance and security policies across cloud deployments preventing misconfigurations turning into attack vectors. Its patented technology provides deep visibility into cloud requests with the flexibility to apply across any deployment tool allowing developers to choose the right tool for the job.
Led by CEO Matthew Prince, Cloudflare is a connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Its connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
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08/10/2024