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Funding Scales Security for the Cloud Gen

Jan 7, 2021

A $525 Million Growth Round To Scale Lacework

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

At Lacework, we’re helping to secure cloud infrastructure so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Cloud changes constantly. To build securely in the cloud, you have to know the difference between normal and threatening changes. Lacework was built to understand cloud changes. We capture cloud data and activities and organize it into behaviors […]

Lacework Priorities: Our Commitment to Security and Safety

Mar 16, 2020

Lacework Priorities: Continued Safety and Security – A Commitment to our Customers and Employees

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

Safety and security for us are not just the outcomes of your cloud infrastructure, it’s also the safety and well-being of our employees and our customer’s families and well-being. This isn’t something new but certainly, during this incredible time of uncertainty and doubt, I felt that it’s important to provide some certainty and trust of […]

Nov 18, 2019

Secure DevOps with Datadog and Lacework

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

Last month I blogged about the need for a New Generation of Security and highlighted two critical shifts: the shift from conflict to collaboration and the shift from centralized to distributed. And today we are excited to announce that we have partnered with Datadog to enable our joint customers to level up their security and […]

Sep 12, 2019

It’s Time for a New Generation of Security

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

Today we announced a new series of funding from an incredible group of investors and entrepreneurs who have built companies like Snowflake Computing and Pure Storage from the ground up. Like both Snowflake and Pure, we have built a new modern platform that is purpose fit for a new IT trend, Security for the Cloud and […]

Jun 20, 2019

The Shift is On: Why Lacework is Extending Security From Run Time to Build Time

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

Software Requirements: FAST. GOOD. CHEAP. Choose any two… When I started my career as an engineer, that was a joke we used to kick around. That was at a time when development projects ran into multiple quarters and often relied on layers of project managers to keep other projects managers honest, so those project managers […]

Jun 6, 2019

Lacework: Leading the Way From Product to Platforms

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

This has been a busy, and quite humbling week for me as I have accepted the position as CEO of Lacework. I already feel fortunate to work with this extraordinarily talented and energetic team, but now I’ll have the opportunity to help them execute a strategy to establish Lacework as the most innovative, customer-focused security […]

Oct 18, 2018

Redis Compromise: Lacework Detection

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

Recently we published a blog on the internals of a Redis compromise with an infection on one of our external-facing honeypots and this is a follow up which demonstrates how the Lacework service would help identify the attack at a variety of stages in the attacker life-cycle. As I outlined in a previous blog about the […]

Jun 18, 2018

Containers At-Risk: A Review of 21,000 Cloud Environments

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

Securing your workloads in public clouds requires a different approach than that used for traditional data centers. The need to operate security at cloud speed, respond to continuous change, adapt at scale, and operate with a new operating model all require a dramatic shift in the type of container security solution required by today’s operation. […]

May 16, 2018

Refocus on What Matters: Risks vs Threats

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

After visiting the RSA Conference (yes I walked the infamous show floor) I decided to zoom out on what I saw and think about where we are spending our time, resources, and investments as an industry. The one thing that came to me is that we certainly spend a lot of time talking about threats. […]

Mar 6, 2018

Driving Towards Least Privilege in AWS: A Baker’s Dozen

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Product Officer

I have learned a lot in the past few years about running and securing public cloud infrastructure and thought I would share some areas that I believe are important. This SlideShare presentation is meant to be a self-read narrative of 13 things to think about AWS security and the move towards least privileged systems. Enjoy, […]