Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Nightfall’s vision is to power data protection in every app or service. Our native SaaS integrations for apps like Slack, GitHub, and Google Drive already protect organizations, ranging from small startups to the Fortune 100, against data leaks with our machine learning-powered detection engine. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Nightfall Developer Platform, so you can build data discovery, classification, and protection using our powerful APIs.

Data privacy is top of mind for every organization, with individuals wanting reassurance that their data is secure at all times. With the ever increasing number of cloud applications on the market today, security teams are faced with the challenge of keeping track of compounding volumes of sensitive data that can flow internally, externally, and across systems.

The development roll up this month hints at some of the big improvements we have planned for the web application. Getting new users onto the platform doing the things they came to do quickly and easily is the central theme. LimaCharlie is working to make it easy and intuitive to create the scalable security solutions you need.

Before the revolution of Information Technology (IT), the world experienced the revolution of Operational Technology (OT). Operational Technology is the combination of hardware and software that controls and operates the physical mechanisms of industry. OT systems play an important role in the water, manufacturing, power, and distribution systems that transformed industry into the modern age. All of these systems function to operate, automate, and manage industrial machines.

Alan is one of the senior officers of a financial bank in Texas. Alan was looking to buy a Halloween costume and got an email about a sale happening at a store near his neighborhood. He clicked on the email to learn more about the offer. In a few hours, his computer, which had critical high-profile customer files and details got infected by ransomware.

When was the last time you checked DNS configurations for subdomains pointing at services not in use? According to Crowdsource ethical hacker Thomas Chauchefoin, while expired and forgotten subdomains can easily become an entrypoint for an attacker to steal sensitive data, a robust attack surface management programme in place can keep them at bay.

We are thrilled to welcome the team at CloudSkiff to Snyk! Many of you may be more familiar with driftctl, the open source project started by the CloudSkiff team. I wanted to share with you why we’re excited about the addition of this fantastic group of people to Snyk, and our plans for the future of Snyk Infrastructure as Code (Snyk IaC), as well as our commitment to keeping driftctl open source.