In a blog post about the acquisition, John Madison, Fortinet's chief marketing officer, said Lacework offers patented AI and machine learning technology, an agent and agentless architecture for data collection, an on-premises data lake, and a robust code security offering that integrates system services Essential for cloud-native application protection is to protect what happens inside the cloud.
“We intend to make the platform even more robust by integrating it with Fortinet's firewall and WAAP capabilities to further help customers identify, prioritize and remediate risks and threats in complex cloud infrastructure from code to cloud,” Madison said. “Specifically, this combination will allow customers to protect what happens within the cloud application along with what happens between the application and the outside world.”
Lacework is part of the cloud workload protection platform ecosystem, which a recent report from Frost & Sullivan described as highly fragmented, comprising cloud service providers, traditional network and endpoint security vendors, vulnerability assessment vendors, and startups specializing in cloud security. More than 50 vendors compete in the CWPP space globally, including Palo Alto, Microsoft, Broadcom/VMware Carbone Black, Wiz, and Check Point. Until recently, Lacework was widely rumored to be acquired by Wiz.
