Today, we announced our entrance into the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) market. It’s a significant development for WhiteSource, which has until now been solely focused on open source software security. In this post, I explain why we decided to make this move beyond open source into proprietary code security, and the value it will bring to developers, security teams, and their organizations.

I am excited to share that SecurityScorecard is now formally a member of the Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council (IT-SCC). Established in 2006, the IT SCC is the principal entity for coordinating with the government on a wide range of critical infrastructure protection activities and cybersecurity issues.

We are pleased to announce that we’ve recently attained Cyber Essentials certification with the NCSC in addition to our existing compliance with PCI DSS, SOC 2 & ISO 27001. The NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) is the UK authority for monitoring cybersecurity incidents, conducting threat assessments and acts as an overarching technical authority for mitigating cyber threats.

ManageEngine’s privileged access management (PAM) suite of products have helped over one million IT administrators and users around the globe efficiently manage their privileged credentials and access. On that note, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Privileged Access Management!

This week we announced the general availability of CrowdStrike’s newest innovation, Falcon XDR, and I couldn’t be more excited. Using our same single, lightweight agent architecture, Falcon XDR enables security teams to bring in third-party data sources for a fully unified solution to rapidly and efficiently hunt and eliminate threats across multiple security domains.

We’re officially more than halfway through winter here in the northern hemisphere, and although that famous Pennsylvania groundhog Punxsutawney Phil has just predicted six more weeks of cold and snow, we have some good news that we think helps make up for it. We’re announcing a major new release of CloudCasa features!

First-generation security solutions for cloud-native applications have been failing because they apply a legacy mindset where the focus is on vulnerability scanning instead of a holistic approach to threat detection, threat prevention, and remediation. Given that the attack surface of modern applications is much larger than in traditional apps, security teams are struggling to keep up and we’ve seen a spike in breaches.

For the fifth consecutive year, CRN has honored several WatchGuard leaders in its annual Channel Chiefs list. This exclusive awards program shines a spotlight on the top IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate a high level of expertise, influence and innovation in the channel.