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Checkmarx announces Technology Partner Programme to enable the industry’s most extensible, code-to-cloud enterprise AppSec ecosystem

Checkmarx, the industry pioneer in cloud-native application security for the enterprise announced its Checkmarx Technology Partner programme, enabling organisations to easily extend the AppSec platform with a wide range of technology partner capabilities. Better security outcomes The combination of best-of-breed technology partners with the enterprise AppSec platform helps organisations shift everywhere, from code to cloud, with a unified AppSec posture integrated into the software development...

Cequence announces it has enhanced the testing capabilities within its Unified API Protection Platform

Cequence Security, the provider of Unified API Protection, announces it has enhanced the testing capabilities within its Unified API Protection Platform with the availability of API Security Testing. This API Security Testing framework encourages shift-left efforts by giving security and development teams the tools to quickly uncover and remediate API vulnerabilities in pre-production environments that could otherwise lead to business disruption in production. API traffic analysis With API Se...

GitLab chooses Aqua Security’s Aqua Trivy as the new official default container scanner

Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security solutions provider, has announced that Aqua Trivy is now the default scanner for GitLab Auto DevOps. Customers can now automatically scan the GitLab CI pipeline for OS package vulnerabilities. This change will take place as part of GitLab’s 14.0 release and is based on the results of a publicly available solution comparison and research process. Aqua Trivy open source scanner “One of the primary reasons behind the default scanner...

Aqua Security announces US$ 135 million in Series E funding to drive cloud native platforms

Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security solutions provider, has announced the completion of US$ 135 million in Series E funding, led by ION Crossover Partners, putting the company’s valuation in excess of US$ 1 billion. Investment funding The funding round included broad participation from Aqua Security’s existing investors, including M12 – Microsoft’s venture fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Greenspring Associates, and Acrew...