Today we announced the immediate availability of the Salt Security API Protection Platform on Google Cloud Marketplace and our acceptance to the Google Partner Advantage program! Salt now provides the cloud trifecta, enabling customers to adopt the Salt platform on the AWS Marketplace (followed by the AWS ISV Accelerate Program), on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, and now on Google Cloud!
A company’s brand is more than just its logo and color palette. It’s a signal to the world about their vision and commitment. This is why I’m super excited that Lookout is debuting a reimagined identity and position centered around freedom of control. Lookout started its journey in 2007 trailblazing the concept of mobile security.
In today's hyper-connected world, most of us now take care of our daily tasks with the help of digital tools, which includes online banking. Whether we're reviewing our account balances, transferring money, applying for payment cards, or simply paying our bills, banking has become more digital, and requires financial firms to adapt to this new world of transacting business. This adaptation has seen EU-based financial firms adopting and relying more heavily on cloud services.
A couple months ago, we received a request from one of our enterprise financial clients looking to build their internal data lake capabilities. The client wanted to know more about security best practices related to the AWS data lake management tool, AWS Lake Formation, and asked our team for help. One of our principal security consultants specializing in cloud got to work, preparing an overview of critical security considerations when architecting a data lake system.
Last week, T-Mobile disclosed that the personally identifiable information (PII) of 37 million of its past and present customers had been breached in an API attack. They also shared that the attack had been going on since November but was only caught January 5 by T-Mobile’s security team. Coverage of the attack has been swift, far-reaching, and harsh, as this represents T-Mobile’s 8th breach since 2018.
