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Developers’ interest in cybersecurity grows substantially in data breaches.

The statistics of O’Reilly’s annual platform analysis, which examines the most popular queries and content on the company’s learning platform, were released. There has been significant growth in interest in specific cybersecurity challenges.

The amount of content about ransomware has nearly tripled (a 270% increase). Privacy (up 90 %), identity (up 50 %), application security (up 45 %), malware (up 34 %), governance (up 35 35 %), and cybersecurity compliance (up 35 %) all saw significant year-over-year growth (up 30 %). This is unsurprising, given the 17 % increase in data breaches observed in 2021 compared to 2020. (ITRC).

With the high-profile occurrences involving ransomware, supply chain attacks, the exploitation of key systems vulnerabilities, and the new focus on cryptocurrency theft from last year, interest in cybersecurity subjects is likely to continue to rise in 2022 and beyond.

The VP of emerging technology content O’Reilly, Mike Loukides said, “Analysing annual trends in technology usage helps our community stay abreast of emerging technology areas—whether it’s learning about software architecture for the cloud, mastering new languages to support cryptocurrency, or productizing AI. These valuable insights empower software developers, data scientists, and other practitioners to begin the hard work of taking emerging technologies and deploying them as real-world solutions.”  

Immuta Announced the SaaS for Modern Data Stacks

Immuta SaaS allows data teams to automate data access control throughout their cloud data systems while avoiding maintenance and infrastructure expenses.

Immuta, the leading company in universal cloud data access control, announced  the availability of Immuta software as a service (SaaS) deployment. Immuta SaaS, which recently obtained SOC 2 Type 2 Certification, allows data teams to automate data access control while removing the need for self-management and deployment maintenance.

Immuta’s SaaS deployment is a managed cloud service designed to boost data security by allowing data teams to register data from one or more cloud data systems and be fully functional within minutes, ensuring clients a 99.9 percent SLA uptime for core functions.

Immuta’s SaaS deployment is currently available in North America and EMEA for Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Starburst, and Google BigQuery and Trino, with Google BigQuery and Trino coming soon. It includes Immuta’s full suite of capabilities, including:

  • Universal data cloud compatibility
  • Scalable, attribute-based access controls
  • Dynamic policy enforcement and auditing

Data masking, anonymization, and advanced privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs)

“We’re seeing huge demand from global customers who are migrating data analytics to the cloud and looking for a fully hosted data access control platform that enables them to establish controls for sensitive data to meet their regulatory and internal security requirements. Immuta’s SaaS deployment offers customers the opportunity to experience the power of fine-grained data access control and unlock the full potential of their data safely and securely with zero maintenance or infrastructure costs,” said Matt Carroll, CEO, Immuta.

PumpJack Dataworks is also one of Immuta’s early SaaS customers. They manage fan data for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and MLS’s Inter Miami CF.

“Our Customer Data Platform is tuned specifically for the sports industry to help teams, leagues, and federations unify and manage all of their fan data across their entire ecosystem. Our customers demand strict requirements across governance, user access controls, anonymization, and audit capabilities, ensuring that a layer of trust and protection is extended across their global fan communities. In this dynamic privacy environment, Immuta’s SaaS deployment enables us to provide the highest standards of protection for fan data,” said Tom Tercek, co-founder and chief strategy officer, Pumpjack Dataworks.

Billie, a fast-growing fintech organization based in Berlin that is reinventing how small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) handle invoices, adopted Immuta’s SaaS deployment to rapidly automate data access control and data protection. According to Igor Chtivelband, Billie’s co-founder and VP of data and CRM, “If we didn’t have Immuta, then Billie’s expansion as a business wouldn’t be possible. I’m not sure how we could do it without Immuta.”

With Immuta’s SaaS deployment, users can start experiencing the power of dynamic, fine-grained access control faster than ever. A recent GigaOm report found that Immuta’s attribute-based access controls require 75x fewer policy changes and offer significant cost savings compared to competitive solutions. Immuta was also the first data access control solution to be included on Snowflake Partner Connect.

Billie, a Berlin-based fast-growing fintech company that is trying to reinvent how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) manage invoices, chose Immuta’s SaaS deployment to quickly automate data access control and data protection. “If we didn’t have Immuta, Billie’s expansion as a business wouldn’t be possible, I’m not sure how we’d manage without Immuta,” says Igor Chtivelband, Billie’s co-founder and VP of data and CRM.

With Immuta’s SaaS deployment, users can experience the intense power of dynamic, fine-grained access control faster than ever before.  Particularly in comparison to competing solutions, Immuta’s attribute-based access controls require 75 times fewer policy changes and provide significant cost savings, according to a recent GigaOm report. Snowflake Partner Connect featured Immuta as the first data access control solution.

Customers can begin with a free trial and quickly convert to a production deployment, making it simpler to handle complex use cases and enjoy maintenance-free deployment. Immuta’s fully containerized self-managed deployment option allows customers to control their own cloud system if they are unable to use Immuta SaaS.

Frog Teams Up With Slack To Increase The Awareness About Key Software Development Events

JFrog has introduced a new Slack integrator For JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray. The new JFrog app for Slack enables developers to notify an extended team of stakeholders in real-time about significant software development events, such as new security vulnerabilities or licensing compliance violations, allowing them to optimize release cycles and reduce time-to-resolution.

“Collaboration has always been an integral part of DevOps, but when it comes to security-related events, you need to communicate early and often. We are thrilled to work with Slack – one of the world’s leading collaboration tools – on enhancing the way developers work today so they can deliver stronger features, faster releases, continuous updates, and improved security for their entire DevOps pipeline,” said Stephen Chin, vice president of Developer Relations, JFrog.

The JFrog app for Slack combines artefact management and security with operational efficiency to boost company results. It lets one or more Slack channels to receive notifications, information, and actions connected to specific software incidents. For example, developers can communicate vulnerability and licensing compliance notifications with a broader team of stakeholders directly from their workstations, based on policies set up in JFrog Xray.

The interactive notifications allow receivers to take action, such as create “ignore” rules, view details, and so on. From within the Slack channel, you can pause, delete, or invoke the JFrog Platform for more information about notifications.

Snyk Secures $75 Million Funding

Snyk, the global leading developer security firm announced that it has raised $75 million in Series F Funding round from Atlassian Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Snyk is committed to advancing developer security through equipping millions of development partners to build security early on without sacrificing the speed that their business needs to compete successfully. It pushes the value of the company to $8.6 billion, and the capital total to $850 million, more than 10% of which come directly from Atlassian Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

In close collaboration with Snyk, Atlassian, and Salesforce are have aim to facilitate the identifying, fixing and monitoring vulnerabilities in their existing workflows for the global developer population – estimated at 26.2 million by 2020 and expected to reach 43.2 million by 2025.

“For Atlassian and Salesforce, this investment in Snyk is more than just capital. Like Snyk, these two industry leaders are fiercely committed to empowering developers to embed security into the entire application. We are humbled by their true, long-term commitment to evolving the legacy security industry through a developer-led approach,” said Peter McKay, CEO, Snyk.

“The desire to do things differently inspires us, and Snyk is reinventing the way organizations think about security. They are a vital part of our ecosystem, tightly integrated into our core products. We’re thrilled to further support their journey and together increase the millions of developers that benefit from their work,” said Chris Hecht, Head of Corporate Development, Atlassian.

“As an early investor since the company’s Series B, we are excited to deepen our partnership and continue to support Snyk as the leader in developer security. Snyk’s vision to empower developers to drive greater agility and digital transformation resonates, and we are excited to support them as both an investor and customer,” said Alex Kayyal, SVP & Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures.