[Live Story] Exploring the World of Security at RSA Conference 2024

RSA Conference 2024, happening now at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA, brings together leading players in the cybersecurity space to discuss key themes in digital and network security, as well as trends, strategies and best practices in cyberthreat detection and prevention at a global scale. Leading players in the networking and cybersecurity space, including the likes of Microsoft, Google and Cisco, are making headlines with major product launches, upgrades and reveals from the event, along with hundreds of other exhibitors, sponsors, partners and keynote speakers from the industry. Stay tuned below for ongoing updates into key announcements, news and updates from the event:

Cloud Security Startup Wiz Announces $1 Billion Funding Round at $12 Billion Valuation at RSAC 2024

Cloud security solutions provider Wiz has raised $1 billion at a $12 billion valuation, bringing the company's total funding to $1.9 billion. The current round is led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Thrive Capital, with participation from Greylock, Wellington Management, and existing investors Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Howard Schultz, Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. 

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68 Companies Sign 'Secure by Design' Pledge by CISA, Including Google, HPE, Zscaler

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), at the RSA Conference 2024, has announced voluntary commitments by 68 leading software manufacturers to CISA’s Secure by Design pledge to design products with greater security built in.The 68 companies include Akamai, Amazon Web Services, BlackBerry, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Lenovo, Palo Alto Networks, Sophos and Zscaler.

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SentinelOne Reveals Agentless CNAPP Solution, Singularity™ Cloud Native Security, at RSA Conference

SentinelOne, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, USA, announced the launch of its latest Singularity™ Cloud Native Security solution. Built on SentinelOne’s acquisition of PingSafe in February 2024, the agentless Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) is uniquely designed to assess environments like a hacker would, simulating attack methods to provide a prioritized, evidence-based list of exploit pathways that security teams can use to prioritize their time and prevent attacks before they happen. 

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Google Cloud and CrowdStrike Join Forces to Revolutionize Mandiant IR & MDR Services

CrowdStrike yesterday announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud to power Mandiant’s Incident Response (IR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services leveraging the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform and the Google Cloud Security Operations platform. The partnership focuses on CrowdStrike’s market-leading Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and Exposure Management solutions.

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Google Unveils Google Threat Intelligence at RSAC 2024, Features Insights from Gemini, Mandiant, VirusTotal

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google announced the launch of Google Threat Intelligence, a new offering that combines the unmatched depth of its Mandiant frontline expertise, the global reach of the VirusTotal community, and the breadth of visibility that Google can deliver, based on billions of signals across devices and emails. 

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Skyhigh Security Adds AI-Powered Zero Trust and Data Protection Capabilities to SSE Suite

Skyhigh Security yesterday announced strategic additions to its Security Service Edge (SSE) portfolio at RSA Conference (RSAC) 2024. In response to an evolving cyber threat landscape and new data security challenges, these new innovations will empower organizations to seamlessly adopt zero-trust principles and enhance data protection measures. 

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Cisco Accelerates Innovations in AI-Powered Cloud Security Suite After Acquisition of Splunk

Cisco, at the RSA Conference 2024, announced new industry shaping innovations across the Cisco Security Cloud to both power and protect the AI revolution. The new capabilities across Cisco’s unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform help companies better protect their applications, devices, users and data as well as detect, respond and recover faster from incidents.

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Proofpoint Unveils End-to-End Threat Protection Capabilities for Email Security at RSAC 

At the ongoing RSA Conference 2024, Proofpoint unveiled two industry-first innovations in email security - uniquely combining new pre-delivery, click-time, and post-delivery detections, Proofpoint’s enhanced core email security packages now include, as it claims, the industry’s first and only pre-delivery defense against both social engineering threats and malicious links and new adaptive email security capabilities, offering a fully integrated layer of behavioral AI-based defense post-delivery, while offering seamless API integration with Microsoft 365.

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Traceable AI Launches Generative AI API Security Capabilities in Early Access

Traceable AI, at the RSA Conferene 2024, announced an Early Access Program for its new Generative AI API Security capabilities. By launching these capabilities in Early Access, the company aims to extend its comprehensive API security platform to specifically target the security risks of integrating Generative AI into applications.

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iboss Unveils Groundbreaking SD-WAN Offering Single Vendor SASE with Zero Trust Principle

iboss, at the RSA Conference 2024, announced the release of its Zero Trust SD-WAN solution. This offering allows iboss to provide a single-vendor Zero Trust SASE solution, seamlessly integrating iboss's Zero Trust SSE platform with Zero Trust SD-WAN. The unified platform will allow organizations to gain secure connectivity across factories, branch offices, data centers while eliminating the need for legacy firewalls and cumbersome VPNs.

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CrowdStrike and NinjaOne Join Forces to Enable Full-Spectrum Endpoint Protection

At the RSA Conference 2024, CrowdStrike and NinjaOne announced a strategic partnership to provide full-spectrum endpoint protection against modern cyberattacks. By unifying market-leading endpoint management from the NinjaOne platform with the industry-leading endpoint protection from the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® Xplatform, organizations can rapidly detect, investigate and stop attacks targeting endpoints while bridging gaps between IT and security teams.

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