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Why Wiz Wants to Buy Cloud Startup Gem Security for $350M

Data Breach Today

Wiz May Not Need More Cash for Its 2nd Deal in 4 Months Since It Has $900M on Hand Wiz is reportedly set to buy centralized cloud threat management vendor Gem Security for $350 million, Bloomberg reported this week.

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Is Microsegmentation for Zero Trust Defenses Worth It?

Data Breach Today

Forrester's David Holmes on Why CISOs Must Evaluate Microsegmentation in Cloud Microsegmentation is a fundamental concept in zero trust security, but CISOs should assess its feasibility before diving in.

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Russian Threat Actor APT29 Pivots to the Cloud for Espionage

Data Breach Today

Five Eyes Cyber Agencies Say Kremlin Hackers Are Following Victims to the Cloud The Russian intelligence hacking group known as APT29 or Cozy Bear is responding to the corporate migration to the cloud with matching hacking techniques, says an alert from international cyber agencies.

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Tenable to Buy Startup Ermetic for $265M to Safeguard Clouds

Data Breach Today

2nd-Largest Pure-Play Cyber M&A Transaction of 2023 Unites Identity, Cloud Security Tenable will purchase a cloud security startup founded by the longtime leader of Secdo to help security teams make efficient and accurate remediation decisions.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

According to the study conducted by Wakefield Research in 2021, only 22% of the data leaders surveyed have fully realized ROI in the past two years, with most data leaders (56%) having no consistent way of measuring it.

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Why Wiz Is Pursuing Its 2nd Massive Funding Round in 2 Years

Data Breach Today

Cloud Security Vendor Wiz Eyes Unprecedented $800M Funding Round at $10B+ Valuation The New York-based cloud security phenom is speaking with several investors include Thrive, Lightspeed Venture Partners, G Squared, Sequoia and Cyberstarts in hopes of raising roughly $800 million at a valuation of more than $10 billion.

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Migrating data to the cloud? Don’t neglect change management

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1 For data professionals embarking on a data cloud migration , the stakes couldn’t be any higher. It’s why effective change management is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity for unlocking the full power of cloud capabilities and ensuring adoption. Ready to be a cloud data migration hero ? The challenges are real.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Instead of considering the data warehouse and the data lake as independent “data islands” that coexist in a cloud platform, it is time to reconsider the fundamental ways that information is accumulated, managed, and then provisioned to the different downstream data consumers.

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Future-Proofing Your Information Governance Strategy

Speaker: Crystal Cao, Lindsey Simon & Lisa Ripley

Cloud applications are driving the future of work with the ability to operate anytime, anywhere. We can send a message, share a file, or join a call at the drop of a hat yet, every time we perform an action within these applications, we produce data — and we produce a lot of it.

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Best Practices for Deploying & Scaling Embedded Analytics

Deployment: Benefits and drawbacks of hosting on premises or in the cloud. Embedding analytics in your application doesn’t have to be a one-step undertaking. In fact, rolling out features gradually is beneficial because it allows you to progressively improve your application.