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Locking Down The Cloud

Vendors have made great advances thus far in 2021 around securing cloud applications, data, and workloads, rolling out tools that can discover critical data located in the public cloud, centrally manage Amazon Web Services EC2 instances in real-time, and visualize and prioritize cloud security risks to reduce the attackers blast radius and facilitate faster investigations.

Securing customer and workforce identity has been a major area of investment, with companies provisioning just-in-time access to hybrid and cloud servers and making it possible for all users and devices to securely access cloud, mobile, SaaS and on-premises applications and APIs. Other vendors, meanwhile, have focused on automatically discovering and preventing risks for new SaaS applications.

Four of the coolest new cloud security tools come from companies based in California, four come from companies based in the Northeastern United States, and companies based in Colorado, Michigan and France each contributed one offering to the list. Read on to learn what new cloud security features and functionality partners are now able to enjoy.

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The 10 Coolest Cloud Security Tools Of 2021 (So Far) - CRN