Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Cybersecurity has evolved from a technical challenge to a strategic business imperative. CXOs now grapple with a complex interplay of technological advancements, organizational shifts, and human error, which is only intensified by Generative AI, insider threats, third-party vulnerabilities, and persistent threat exposure.

Elastic Security 8.15 is now available, enhancing our mission to modernize security operations with AI-driven security analytics. Key features include the brand new Automatic Import to streamline data ingestion and onboarding, support for Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash large language models (LLMs), a new set of APIs for the Elastic AI Assistant, on-demand file scans for the Elastic Defend integration, and a redesigned way of pivoting between different contexts.

We are thrilled to announce the new Snyk Analytics for Snowflake, allowing Snyk customers to seamlessly access and analyze Snyk’s data from their Snowflake account.

This week, I’m excited to announce Cloud Enrichment for AWS, GCP, and Azure. These enhancements are designed to accelerate incident response and unlock threat hunting capabilities by automatically combining the insights of your cloud network with the native control plane data from your cloud service provider.

In the fast-paced world of modern software development, grasping the full scope of an application is essential for managing an application security program. This entails having visibility into all the application assets involved in building the app, knowing their ownership, and understanding their importance to the development process and the broader business.

Generative AI (GenAI) is a top priority for organizations looking to increase productivity and solve business problems faster. In cloud security, AI chatbots to aid security practitioners are becoming more common, but to date, most of these solutions offer only basic queries and summarization. Diverse cloud environments and evolving threats require more from an AI security analyst.

Business continuity is at the forefront of most systems and process design at Indusface. In a recent blog, we discussed how Indusface follows design-for-failure principles a powerful approach that enables us to deploy faster. In this blog, I will talk about the processes we have to ensure that our code and rule deployments do not cause widespread downtime to our protected assets.

Earlier this year, we announced Bitsight’s next-generation internet scanning, Bitsight Groma, and AI-powered discovery and attribution technology, Bitsight Graph of Internet Assets (Bitsight GIA). While these technologies work as partners in the Bitsight Cyber Risk Data Engine to create a dynamic map of internet infrastructure, it is helpful to separate them out to understand their unique contributions.

Containerized applications deliver exceptional speed and flexibility, but they also bring complex security challenges, particularly in managing and mitigating vulnerabilities within container images. To tackle these issues, we are excited to introduce Layered Analysis — an important enhancement that provides precise and actionable security insights.

Discover the power of our new WAAP dashboard, designed to effortlessly monitor, analyze, and enhance your security posture—all in real time. The dashboard provides enhanced visibility and actionable insights to secure assets, prioritize remediation, and address critical exposures. Instantly find answers to questions such as: What is my application’s protection status? What common attacks does the WAAP protect against? Which countries are the top sources of blocked traffic?