20 CLOUD SECURITY VENDORS

New Relic

Bill Staples CEO

New Relic overhauled its partner program, increasing resources for its growing roster of partners. On the product side, the company launched add-ons for more AWS offerings, expanded access to its vulnerability management offering and made its Monitoring for SAP Solutions tool generally available.

OpsRamp

Varma

Kunaparaju

Co-Founder,

CEO

OpsRamp in 2022 surpassed 2,500 integrations with its digital operations management tools, covering almost every commonly used technology by service providers. The company also broadened its AIOps platform with integrated log management, centralized log ingestion, automated log parsing and log archiving.

Uila unveiled new intelligent Nvidia GPU metrics in its uObserve observability platform so that desktop teams can optimize virtual desktop performance. The company also added intelligent log analysis for multi-cloud environments and a customizable scripting capability for VMware o erings.

Virtana’s new Kubernetes strategy delivers container support across its portfolio and actionable infrastructure insight for users. It has expanded that strategy with infrastructure performance management and monitoring support, with the same real-time information for containers as users have for legacy cloud infrastructure.

Cyberattacks on cloud infrastructure are always top of mind for organizations, and cloud security vendors have to constantly innovate to protect cloud data, applications and hardware from threats. Here are 20 companies that are set to make waves in 2023.

—Mark Haranas

Check Point Software Technologies

Aqua Security has a vast portfolio of container security, serverless, supply chain and dynamic threat analysis cybersecurity o erings. It dubs its Aqua Platform as the industry’s most integrated cloud-native application protection platform, prioritizing risk and automating prevention, detection and response across the life cycle.

Gil Shwed Founder, CEO Check Point has been beefing up its cloud offerings across the board, including through the acquisition of Tel Aviv, Israel-based Spectral. Spectral is a startup focusing on developerfirst security tools and was the company’s fifth cloud security acquisition in three years.

Shai Morag Co-Founder, CEO

Ermetic, a cloud infrastructure security company, raised $70 million in new funding last year for its identity-first cloud o ering. The startup also recently appointed Scott Hoard, a former Fortanix channel executive, as the new head of global channel sales.

Ken Xie

Founder, Chairman, CEO

Fortinet has a wide range of cloud security o erings. The company’s FortiGate Cloud is a cloud-based SaaS o ering, delivering a range of management and services for Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. Fortinet also has launched a new managed cloudnative firewall service.

Illumio

Andrew Rubin Co-Founder, CEO

Illumio, a zero trust segmentation company, provides offerings designed to stop breaches from spreading across the hybrid attack surface. Its CloudSecure delivers agentless visibility for cloud-native applications and infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Imperva

Pam

CEO

Murphy

Imperva provides data security software designed to protect data through all stages of its digital transformation, with cloud-based security services among its portfolio of o erings. Imperva has raised nearly $100 million to date.

Lacework

Jay Parikh CEO

Lacework is a data-driven cloud security company that secures cloud-native applications across the entire life cycle. Its platform collects, analyzes and correlates data to narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. It works across customers’ AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes environments.

Palo Alto Networks

Nikesh Arora Chairman, CEO

Palo Alto Networks has over the past four years been on an acquisition binge, largely to broaden its cloud o erings. In late 2022, the company acquired Cider Security and its portfolio of application and supply chain security products as part of Palo Alto Networks‘ approach to secure the entire application security life cycle from code to cloud.

Skyhigh Security

Gee Rittenhouse CEO

Skyhigh Security, formerly McAfee Enterprise, launched in March as a new cloud security company focused on the security service edge market. Skyhigh recently hired its first-ever global channel chief, Scott Goree, formerly head of worldwide distribution sales and channel renewal sales at Nutanix.

Proofpoint

Ashan Willy CEO

Proofpoint, known for its email, compliance and other security tools, has a solid presence in the cloud with its Proofpoint Cloud App Security Broker. The company recently enhanced its Threat Protection Platform to boost customers’ visibility and detection of email fraud and better defend against third-party and supplier compromises.

Sophos

Kris Hagerman CEO

Sophos has a number of cloud-based offerings available, and the security star keeps adding to its product lineup. In 2022, the company acquired cloud-based security alert investigation and triage automation solution provider SOC.OS, enabling Sophos to expand its Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem solution.

Laminar

Amit Shaked

Co-Founder, CEO Cloud data security startup Laminar raised $30 million in June, bringing the total it has raised to $67 million since its founding in 2021. Laminar in October launched Laminar Labs to help businesses protect their most sensitive cloud data.

Qualys

Netskope

Sanjay Beri

Founder, CEO

Netskope is known for its secure access service edge architecture aimed at redefining cloud, data and network security. In the first week of 2023, Netskope said it had raised $401 million via convertible notes it plans to use to further develop its SASE products and channel-centric go-tomarket strategy.

Securonix

Orca Security

Avi Shua

Co-Founder, CEO

Orca Security describes itself as a pioneer of agentless cloud security and compliance, working for AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. In October, the company released what it called the first agentless API security offering for multi-cloud environments.

Semperis

Sumedh

Thakar President, CEO

Qualys is a cloud security stalwart, providing a number of cloud-based IT, security and compliance offerings. In October, the company said it was acquiring the assets of Blue Hexagon, bringing AI/machine learning to the Qualys Cloud Platform. Qualys is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance.

Trellix

Bryan Palma CEO

Trellix was formed in early 2022 through the merger of FireEye and McAfee Enterprise, creating an extended detection and response business that integrates capabilities in the endpoint, network and security operations fields with a solid cloud strategy. In September, the company unveiled its first independent partner program.

Nayaki Nayyar CEO

Securonix, a provider of next-gen SIEM and XDR offerings, was hot in 2022—to the tune of $1 billion. That’s the amount Vista Equity Partners and other financial firms invested in Securonix last February. Securonix said its next-gen SIEM and XDR are powered by the most advanced analytics and built on a scalable, flexible cloud-native architecture.

Trend Micro

Eva Chen

Co-Founder, CEO

Trend Micro o ers cybersecurity platforms for hybrid cloud and products that span across clouds, networks and devices. The company launched Trend Micro One last year with the aim of making it easier for customers and partners to view and assess their attack surfaces and risk postures.

Mickey Bresman CEO

Semperis, a provider of identify offerings for hybrid Active Directory users, raised about $200 million in Series C funding in 2022, bringing its total raised to $250 million since its founding in 2015. The company said its product is purpose-built to help security teams charged with defending hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Zscaler

Jay Chaudhry

Founder, Chairman, CEO Zscaler grew its portfolio in 2022 with the purchase of ShiftRight, a startup specializing in closedloop security workflow automation. Zscaler now plans to integrate ShiftRight’s technology with a number of its corporate products moving forward.