The cloud giant kicked off its inaugural re:Inforce security conference today and announced the general availability of two new services: Control Tower and Security Hub.

It’s based on technology that VMware acquired when it bought public cloud security startup CloudCoreo last year.

CEO Nikesh Arora pledged to integrate Twistlock container security and PureSec severless security into the Prisma cloud security portfolio “as soon as possible.”

The vendor has reportedly reached deals to buy container security startup Twistlock for between $450 million and $500 million and another Israeli startup for an estimated $50 million to

Cybera’s multi-tenant platform is built on an architecture that provides SD-WAN, cloud-based security, and secure application gateway services to customers.

CEO Nat Kausik said the new capital will be used to add more engineers and expand product distribution. He also sees an IPO in the future.

It connects Azure cloud security, visibility, and analysis tools with the company’s Azure IoT Hub and adds new capabilities on top.

The storage vendor isn’t aware of any customer attacks resulting from the vulnerability and said it could only have potentially affected a small portion of the customer base.

The software-defined perimeter category is based on a “zero trust” philosophy in which access is allowed only when the visiting party proves that they are who they say they

The startup will boost Palo Alto Networks’ ability to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate its customers’ security operations.

The acquisition advances Symantec’s strategy of buying born-in-the-cloud security startups and folding their technologies into its platform to unify cloud and on-premises security.

The cloud giant wants the rest of the industry to get behind its open source confidential computing framework. And it launched a $15K challenge to accelerate this technology.

The new code can uninstall agent-based security software by Tencent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, the top two cloud providers in China.

The opening days of 2019 also saw Sophos purchase cloud security startup Avid Secure and Akamai Technologies reach a deal to acquire Janrain.

The latest flaw was coincidentally announced on the same day as the latest version of Kubernetes was released. Project members said security concerns do not impact the release cycle.

Sprint names its first 5G markets for 2019; Telco Systems and Arm work on uCPE; and IBM sells software assets to HCL Technologies for $1.8 billion.

An IPO is on the horizon but being acquired is not. “We are fiercely independent,” Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri said.

The new Cisco SD-WAN Security product combines Viptela’s technology with Meraki, Cisco’s cloud-managed IT service and wireless LAN product, plus Cisco security software.

Dome9’s platform will add new capabilities — specifically cloud management and policy enforcement — to Check Point’s recently launched CloudGuard product portfolio.

The company's new cloud architecture features "impenetrable barriers" that block threats and autonomous robots that find threats and kill them, said CTO Larry Ellison.

These 10 security companies raised more than $499 million in just the last month as security remains a top priority for many enterprises.

Fortanix’s key management and secuity software ensures that even cloud providers don’t have access to the customer’s encrypted data.

After a disappointing first quarter Symantec needs these cloud security updates to boost its bottom line and clout with enterprise customers.

Palo Alto Networks plans to combine technologies from RedLock and Evident, another recent acquisition, into one product that provides cloud security analytics, advanced threat detection, continuous security, and compliance