In a blog in regards to the acquisition, John Maddison, chief advertising officer with Fortinet, stated that Lacework provides patented AI and machine-learning know-how, an agent and agentless structure for information assortment, a homegrown information lake, and a strong code safety providing that integrates Cloud-Native Utility Safety Platform providers to guard what’s occurring contained in the cloud.
“We intend to make the platform much more highly effective by integrating it with Fortinet’s firewall and WAAP capabilities to additional assist clients determine, prioritize, and remediate dangers and threats in advanced cloud-native infrastructure from code to cloud,” Madison said. “Particularly, the mix will permit clients to guard what’s occurring contained in the cloud app together with what’s occurring between the app and the surface world.”
Lacework is a part of the cloud workload safety platform ecosystem {that a} latest report from Frost & Sullivan calls extremely fragmented, comprising cloud service suppliers, conventional community and endpoint safety distributors, vulnerability evaluation distributors, and start-ups specializing in cloud safety. Greater than 50 distributors compete within the CWPP area globally, together with Palo Alto, Microsoft, Broadcom/VMware Carbone Black, Wiz and Verify Level. Till lately, Wiz had been heavily rumored to be acquiring Lacework.