Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of August 25; Thoma Bravo, Rambus, Deep Instinct, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy identity management and information security news for the week of August 25. This curated list features identity management and information security vendors such as Thoma Bravo, Rambus, Deep Instinct, and more.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant identity management and information security news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy identity management and information security news items.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of August 25

Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of ForgeRock

Thoma Bravo and ForgeRock this week announced the completion of Thoma Bravo’s acquisition of ForgeRock in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.3 billion. The acquisition agreement was previously announced on October 11, 2022, and approved by ForgeRock stockholders at ForgeRock’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on January 12, 2023. Thoma Bravo also announced that it has combined ForgeRock into its portfolio company Ping Identity. The combined company is positioned to better serve customers across the dynamic and fast-growing Identity and Access Management market by providing enhanced products and services, broader geographic support, and increased innovation. The combined company will seek to accelerate the delivery of identity security experiences for the customers, employees, and partners of companies worldwide.

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Cyberint and Cyware Announce Dark Web Intelligence Integration

This week, Cyberint, a cybersecurity solutions provider, announced its integration with Cyware,a provider of threat intelligence management solutions. The combined solution enables organizations to access and integrate contextual threat intelligence, enhance their threat-hunting capabilities, and automate collaborative response actions to potential attacks. The joint solution and use cases will be detailed in an upcoming webinar on August 29 at 1:00 pm EDT.

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Concentric AI Announces Multi-Lingual Support for DSPM Platform

Concentric AI, a data security solutions provider, this week announced support for data in German, Spanish, Italian, French, and Dutch languages, enabling it to meet rapidly growing global demand for its DSPM solution. Concentric AI’s DSPM solution scans organizations’ data, detects sensitive or business critical content, identifies the most appropriate classification category, and automatically tags the data. Concentric AI uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve discovery and classification accuracy and efficiency to “avoid endless regex rules and inaccurate end user labeling.” In addition, Concentric AI can monitor and autonomously identify risk to financial and other data from inappropriate permissioning, wrong entitlements, risky sharing, and unauthorized access. It can automatically remediate permissions and sharing issues or leverage other security solutions and cloud APIs to quickly and continuously protect exposed data.

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Rambus Announces Full Suite of Security IP Solutions for the FPGA Market

Rambus Inc., a chip and silicon IP provider, this week announced a full suite of Security IP solutions for the FPGA market with “state-of-the-art” cryptographic, side-channel, and Quantum Safe protections. Designed to meet the unique needs of FPGAs, the offering secures the broad range of devices from high-performance accelerators for generative AI, to low-power solutions for IoT devices. Rambus security IP protects FPGAs serving applications in the Data Center, AI/ML, Edge, IoT, Defense, and beyond.

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ELB Learning and CyberCatch Unveil HackOps, A Cybersecurity Learning Game

ELB Learning, an e-learning solutions and services provider, announced a new corporate learning and development game, HackOps. This game is the first in a series of next-generation cybersecurity awareness training games created by CyberCatch in partnership with ELB Learning. CyberCatch is an industry-leading defense-grade AI-enabled cybersecurity compliance and cyber risk mitigation solution provider. This engaging gamified course combines the best of two entertainment worlds: movies and games, into “an immersive VR experience like no other.”

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Deep Instinct Research: “Significant Increase in Cybersecurity Attacks Fueled by Generative AI”

Deep Instinct, a cybersecurity solutions provider, released the fourth edition of its Voice of SecOps Report. The research – “Generative AI and Cybersecurity: Bright Future or Business Battleground?” – was conducted by Sapio Research and surveyed over 650 senior security operations professionals in the US, including CISOs and CIOs. The study highlights the impact of generative AI in the cybersecurity industry, analyzing the technology’s positive and negative effect on organizations’ security postures and preparedness. The research found that 75 percent of security professionals witnessed an increase in attacks over the past 12 months, with an astonishing 85 percent attributing this rise to bad actors using generative AI.

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Only Up: Building SecOps in the Cloud

Maxime Lamothe-Brassard of LimaCharlie says the only place left for SecOps development to go is up– into the cloud. SecOps in 2023 is a lot like IT was in 2003– cumbersome. However, just as Amazon transformed IT with AWS and EC2 to enable flexible and scalable services, there is the potential to transform SecOps with a cloud platform, which could also enable efficient and cost-effective services. SecOps has been bound by multiple-point solutions and tied down by multi-year contracts. Even worse, many of these solutions lack any sort of meaningful customization or require a second layer of solutions just to manage the first. However, just as the cloud-enabled economies of scale, easy configuration, and integration via APIs, SecOps now has the opportunity to embrace the same transformation. There are multiple operating systems, an endless spectrum of applications and services, databases, developers, devices, and different users. Security teams frequently have to stitch together integrations between intractable black-box solutions and open-source tools. SecOps has become a burden and the cloud could lighten the load.

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