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< PreviousPAGE NO 10 This is where Palo Alto Networks—the global cybersecurity leader—steps into the game by continually delivering innovation to enable secure digital transformation—even as the pace of change is accelerating. In a nutshell, the company’s vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. Everyday, Palo Alto Networks provides the visibility, trusted intelligence, automation and flexibility that help complex organizations advance securely. “By delivering a comprehensive portfolio and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.” An innovative DevSecOps offering from the company is Prisma Cloud, a solution that delivers automated security for cloud native infrastructure and applications, integrated with developer tools. As cloud native application development is fast-paced and complex, it can be a challenge for security teams to keep up. With Palo Alto Networks, DevOps practices present an opportunity to use automation to secure apps and infrastructure before deployment, alleviating that pressure. The solution acts as a single tool for securing IaC, container images and source code across all modern architectures cloud environments. The Prisma Cloud embeds comprehensive security across the software development cycle. The platform identifies vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and compliance violations in IaC templates, container images and git repositories. It offers IaC scanning backed by an open source community, and image analysis backed by years of container expertise and threat research. With centralized visibility and policy controls, engineering teams can secure their full stack without leaving their tools, while security teams can ensure that only secure code is deployed. Infrastructure as Code Scanning Infrastructure as code presents an opportunity to secure cloud infrastructure in code before it’s ever deployed to production. Prisma Cloud streamlines security throughout the software development lifecycle using automation and by embedding security into workflows in DevOps tooling for Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Dockerfile, Serverless and ARM templates. The solution also comes with PAGE NO 11 an automate cloud misconfiguration checks in code which performs automated checks for misconfigurations at every step of the software development lifecycle. Users can also leverage the power of open source and the community Checkov with the open-source tool Bridgecrew built to power its build time scanning, is backed by an active community and has been downloaded millions of times. Bridgecrew comes with native integrations for IDEs, VCS, and CI/CD tooling to help developers secure code in their existing workflows. The tool automatically tracks dependencies for IaC resources as well as the most recent developer modifiers to improve collaboration in large teams. As a result, users can automate pull request comments for misconfigurations along with automated pull requests and commit fixes for identified misconfigurations. Bridgecrew is built on the open-source project Checkov. Checkov is a policy-as-code tool with millions of downloads that checks for misconfigurations in IaC templates such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, ARM Templates and Serverless framework. Users can leverage hundreds of out-of-the-box policies and add custom rules. Bridgecrew augments Checkov with simplified user experience and enterprise features. Checkov checks IaC templates against hundreds of out of the box policies based on benchmarks, such as CIS, and community sourced checks. Checkov’s policies include graph-based checks that allow multiple levels of resource relationships for complex policies such as higher severity levels for internet facing resources. The solution is uniquely designed to be extensible, with the ability to add custom policies and tags, as well as CLIs designed to be added to continuous integration and other DevOps tools. Bridgecrew augments Checkov’s open- source capabilities with Bridgecrew for a history of scans, additional integrations, auto-fixes and more. Integrated IaC with Ease Involving developers in remediation is the fastest way to get things fixed. Bridgecrew provides feedback directly in popular DevOps, including integrated development environments (IDE), continuous integration (CI) tools, and version control system (VCS). Additional aggregation and reporting are available in the Bridgecrew platform. Bridgecrew integrates with IDEs, CI tools and VCS to provide feedback and guardrails in the tools developers already use. Native integrations with VCS creates code comments with each new pull request for identified misconfigurations to make finding and fixing misconfigurations easier. Bridgecrew includes a centralized view of all misconfigurations across scanned repositories, with filtering and searching to find code blocks and owners. Integrations with collaboration and ticketing tools can generate tickets and alerts to notify the right teams to add remediations to DevOps tasks. The Prisma Effect Prisma Cloud delivers a single, unified agent framework to secure Linux and Windows hosts, containers and Kubernetes, on-demand container platforms, and serverless functions. With 74% of the Fortune 100 as customers, 2,000+ enterprises across the globe trust Prisma Cloud with over 2.5 B cloud resources secured. An instance that highlight the company’s value proposition is when Prisma Cloud is used by Sabre, a travel technology leader, to foster a culture of secure innovation on Google Cloud. Sabre wanted to gain complete cloud visibility and centralize security management to confidently “shift left,” apply automation, and build a secure-by-design culture of innovation. Sabre selected Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks to centralize cloud visibility and security management across diverse infrastructure in a single pane of glass. Prisma Cloud offers direct integration with compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, PCI, SOC 2) that Sabre can consistently review to maintain a compliant state. Based on these frameworks, the team can build policies inside Prisma Cloud to show where the company is noncompliant, and then follow simple instructions to fix any issues. These security achievements elevated Sabre’s overall security posture and competitive edge by reducing the number of critical vulnerabilities that required team attention and resources to remediate, as well as increasing production velocity, delivering safe and secure products and services to market more quickly than ever before. Fostering a Secure Culture Cloud security requires a unified and integrated approach to deliver full stack, full lifecycle security. That’s why Palo Alto Networks has acquired and integrated the world’s leading startups into their Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP). Today, the team is on a mission to build a more secure future for the world. With a set of innovations, acquisitions and investments Palo Alto Networks will continue protecting tens of thousands of organizations across cloud networks and mobile devices. With many niche vendors to choose from, what stands out about Prisma Cloud is the roadmap and the Palo Alto Networks vision to remediate critical vulnerabilities as well as delivering safe and secure products and services to market more quickly than ever before. A s the pandemic hit businesses across the globe, cloud adoption followed the increase in remote working. Increased flexibility, productivity, and reduced costs made it a viable option for businesses while people started to work from home. However, the recent massive upward trend in cyber breaches forces everyone to rethink how to approach security practices, compliance standards, and employee training.Various research reports explain that misconfiguration, lack of visibility, identity, and unauthorized access come under the highest-ranked cloud threats. To beat the growing number of attacks, security experts and solution providers are striving their best to develop the most secure practices and approaches in cloud security. One such approach, the zero trust model, offers complete security by assuring no one gets access to data until their identity is authenticated. It ensures the users get access only to the information that they need. Businesses have also introduced advanced security solutions with high-end features, including multiple levels of user identity authentication. This model gives the control back to the organization and increases accountability. By providing limited access, the possibility of data breaches is reduced. Adapting to such types of security models becomes necessary with an increased number of insider attacks. The continuous advancement in Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning also creates advanced ways for businesses to strengthen their security techniques. These technical advancements offer complete protection of the data, thereby saving businesses from severe cyber thefts. At this juncture, we at Icon Outlook Magazine have shortlisted some of the leading cloud solution providers to help businesses find the right partner based on the unique requirement. The companies listed here are innovative in their way and deliver solutions that stand out from the crowd. Solution Providers 2021 CLOUDallcode.com Website San Francisco, US Headquarters AllCode Company Joel Garcia, CEO Management AllCode's rise to the top has been swift by all means. The company offers on-demand blockchain, big data, and software development services that are designed around your needs. In its 6 years of journey so far, AllCode has already made big contributions to creations like Apache Cassandra. Currently, the company is operating in US, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Description bizcloudexperts.co Website Lewisville, TX Headquarters Bizcloud Company Nagesh Kunamneni President Management People at Bizcloud like to call themselves the torchbearers of digital transformation. The company helps its vast clientele with things like analytics, social, cloud, and mobile. Even though Bizcloud's portfolio is loaded to say the least, their strong suits fall within the premises of legacy app modernization, web applications development, Serverless IoT, all this by leveraging the power of cloud. Description astadia.com Website Boston, MA Headquarters Astadia Company Scott Silk Chairman & CEO Management Astadia is the industry leader for mainframe migrations and modernizations. They handle millions of lines of code every year for forward- thinking businesses around the world. Description cascadeo.com Website Washington, US Headquarters Cascadeo Company Jared Reimer, President & Founder Management Cascadeo is a Cloud DevOps engineering firm focused on taking care of the cloud deployments so a firm can focus on building the products and services. They work at every stage of the initiative, from the definition of the cloud strategy through to the design, build, CI/CD automation and management of the Cloud deployment. Cascadeo understand how to build towards operability and align with the business model, objectives and roadmap to ensure success at every stage of the growth. Description TOP 20 CLOUD SOLUTION PROVIDERS 2021 Solution Providers 2021 CLOUDcloudnexa.com Website Philadelphia, US Headquarters Cloudnexa Company MJ DiBerardino, CEO Management Cloudnexa helps companies who want to realize the full utility power of cloud computing. With proven expertise in design, deployment and management of scalable, secure cloud infrastructures, Cloudnexa provides the necessary value-added services and expertise customers need to realize the true cost savings and technical value proposition of the cloud. Description ecloudvalley.com Website Taipei, Taiwan Headquarters eCloudvalley Company MP Tsai, CEO Management Founded in 2014, eCloudvalley is an answer for every cloud-related requirement. The company's sheer excellence in providing assistance across areas like AWS Cloud Services, Salesforce solution, AI/ML solution is vouched for by their strong international presence. eCloudvalley has been awarded Financial Times’ “High Growth Companies Asia Pacific” for two consecutive years. As of today, eCloudvalley has served over 1,000 clients. Description cloudreach.com Website London, UK Headquarters Cloudreach Company Brooks Borcherding, CEO Management Cloudreach is a cloud computing consultancy, focused on the implementation and operational support of public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. It is also a Blackstone Group portfolio company.The company is headquartered in London, UK, and has offices in multiple countries around the world including Canada, France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, United States and Switzerland Description fidelissecurity.com Website Bethesda, MD Headquarters Fidelis Security Company Anup Ghosh CEO Management Fidelis is a cybersecurity company focused on threat detection, hunting, and targeted response of advanced threats and data breaches. Fidelis Security helps firms outmaneuver, outperform, and outfight cyber attackers to keep company operations and data safe. Description Solution Providers 2021 CLOUD TOP 20 CLOUD SOLUTION PROVIDERS 2021metaltoad.com Website Portland, OR Headquarters Metal Toad Company Joaquin Lippincott CEO Management With over 15 years of experience, Metal Toad has turned its stature into a pioneer of cloud consultancy, development, and application of cloud strategies. So far, the company has played a big role in developing many award-winning applications for esteemed names that range from Sony, Siemens Wind Power, to NBC, and Warner Brothers. The company currently boasts one of the biggest clientele when it comes to cloud services. Description navisite.com Website Massachusetts, US Headquarters Navisite Company Mark Clayman, CEO Management Navisite is a modern managed cloud service provider that accelerates digital transformation for thousands of growing and established global brands. Through their comprehensive portfolio of enterprise application and cloud services, proven delivery methodologies and global team of highly specialized experts across technologies, platforms and industries, they provide the capabilities and practical guidance customers need to move their businesses forward. Description missioncloud.com Website Los Angeles, California, US Headquarters Mission Cloud Company Simon Anderson, Founder & CEO Management Mission Cloud is an AWS Premier Partner and Managed Cloud Services provider with deep know-how in launching and harnessing the power of the cloud. Mission Cloud believes that cloud technology is the greatest business transformation tool, and their mission is to help an organization harness that power to transform the business and to make the company’s mission a reality. Description nclouds.com Website San Francisco, US Headquarters nClouds Company JT Giri, CEO Management nClouds is an award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services, and a Top 200 MSP. nClouds partner with customers to build and manage modern infrastructure solutions that deliver innovation faster. nClouds is a Premier Consulting Partner, Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner, AWS Well-Architected Partner, AWS Marketplace Seller, Authorized Commercial Reseller, and AWS Immersion Days Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN); and has achieved AWS DevOps Competency, AWS Data & Analytics Competency, and AWS Migration Competency status. Description Solution Providers 2021 CLOUD SOLUTION PROVIDERS 2021paloaltonetworks.com Website Santa Clara, CA Headquarters Palo Alto Networks Company Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO Management Palo Alto Networks is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. The company’s mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting the digital way of life. It helps address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. Description rackspace.com Website Texas, US Headquarters Rackspace Company Kevin M. Jones, Director & CEO Management Rackspace Technology, Inc. is an American cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas, an inner suburb of San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Austin, Texas, as well as in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Dubai, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Its data centers are located in Texas, Chicago, Kansas City, Virginia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Hong Kong. Description qualys.com Website Foster City, CA Headquarters Qualys Company Sumedh Thakar, CEO Management Qualys is one of the leading providers of information security and compliance cloud solutions. More than 19,000 global businesses in more than 130 countries trust Qualys to underpin digital transformation for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. Description securekloud.com Website Palo Alto, CA Headquarters SecureKloud Technologies Company Suresh Venkatachari, CEO Management At SecureKloud, the team vouch for Data Protection. It matters to them the most. It matters to all - today, more than ever. Driven by its mission to create a trustworthy environment for Cloud- based businesses, the company help organizations embrace Cloud technology with security assurance and business agility. Description Solution Providers 2021 CLOUD TOP 20 CLOUD SOLUTION PROVIDERS 2021somaglobal.com Website Tampa, FL Headquarters Soma Global Company Peter Quintas, Founder and CEO Management SOMA Global is one of the leading providers of modern, cloud-native public safety solutions. As a team of public safety and technology veterans that understand and respect the power of a partnership, they believe that together they can redefine and deliver technologized public safety solutions. The company's primary focus is on protecting first responders and ultimately saving lives. Description terzocloud.com Website Los Angeles, CA Headquarters Terzo Technologies Company Brandon Card, CEO Management Terzo empowers enterprises to unlock strategic opportunities hidden within their vendor ecosystems. Through its Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) platform, enterprises gain insights that allow them to drive innovation, improve governance, increase collaboration and optimize performance Description techwave.net Website Houston, TX Headquarters TechWave Company Raj Gummadapu, CEO Management Techwave is a prominent global IT services and solutions firm that uses its experience in Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application, and Engineering Services to help customers across the world grow their offerings. Description vmware.com Website Palo Alto, CA Headquarters VMware Company Raghu Raghuram, CEO Management VMware has a wide range of digital solutions that power apps, services, and experiences that help businesses provide excellent customer service and empower their workers. Description Solution Providers 2021 CLOUD SOLUTION PROVIDERS 2021PAGE NO 18 NEVILLE LETZERICH, CMO, CISCO SECURITY CMO OF THE YEAR 2021 A t every business, a customer focus throughout the organization is an important aspect. By appointing a CMO, such businesses can lead customer satisfaction initiatives from the top. The CMO can make an important contribution to an organization’s strategic development while bringing an understanding of markets and customers to make decisions faster and better. This insight is important for making complex decisions about competitive markets where change occurs quickly. Leaders like Neville Letzerich are helping businesses identify opportunities and help team allocate and prioritize resources for enhanced marketing operations. This unique capability, industry presence and expertise in multiple business sectors is what we considered while choosing Letzerich as the Chief Marketing Officer of the year 2021. Neville Letzerich is currently serving as the Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Cisco Security. Leading a global team of marketing professionals, he is responsible for the end-to-end marketing strategy and results driving the world’s largest B2B security business. Letzerich is a results-oriented executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience driving transformation and growth across people, process, and technology. He has a unique and vivid executive leadership experience, driving growth through technology and innovation in companies ranging from startups to $16B in revenue. Letzerich have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to deliver quantifiable results with millions on the line. Leveraging his advanced communication skills and genuine passion for work, he transform companies, boost morale, acquire clients, and ensure customer satisfaction. His detailed knowledge of cybersecurity, SaaS, and application software solutions has been the key ingredient in driving companies across a variety of industries to success. Neville holds a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University. Over the last two decades, Letzerich has held a wide variety of market-facing and product development roles in companies of all sizes, from startups to multibillion dollar organizations. He is well-versed in data-centric, zero-trust security concepts and creating compelling narratives to communicate key benefits to global audiences. Previously, as CMO of cybersecurity provider Forcepoint LLC (formerly Websense), Letzerich oversaw global marketing efforts across 150 countries. He also served in executive leadership positions in global marketing, sales, product, and engineering teams at EMC Corporation where he worked extensively on document and data privacy initiatives. However, when not driving customers’ businesses, Letzerich spends time outdoors in Austin, where he resides with his wife and children. Letzeric has served as the CMO at businesses from Cisco to Forescout Technologies, where he led global marketing, SDR, and sales enablement functions. CMO OF THE YEAR Solution Providers 2021 CLOUDPAGE NO 19 Furthermore, Letzeric held CMO roles at Virtru, Duo, Forcepoint, and HotSchedules, where he was responsible for all marketing functions. What makes Letzerich stand out is his servant leadership approach to build and grow inclusive, high- performing, accountability- focused teams with a wide range of talents and ideas. With a proven ability to deliver quantifiable results, Letzerich works with millions on the line through effective team leadership coupled with disciplined operational execution. He also leverages advanced communication skills, targeted metrics and genuine passion to acquire new customers, expand existing customer relationships and build effective go-to-market channels. Letzerich also served as the Vice President - Product Management responsible for redefining product management and building team to deliver on a new Bazaarvoice platform. As a result, they hired top tier product team and replaced ad hoc product development approach with a design-driven, customer-centric process including development of vision types in order to gather customer feedback prior to build-out. This increased conversion via mobile devices by transforming organizational focus to a mobile-first mentality. Letzerich also drove vision and delivery of mobile SDKs and responsive design interfaces. Letzerich has significant expertise in sales, marketing, product, engineering, P&L management and mergers and acquisitions. His extensive experience across SMB to enterprise solutions in organizations such as Forescout, Forcepoint, Duo Security, Virtru and EMC are added factors that drove him achieve this esteemed award from GRC Outlook Magazine. The magazine’s team also valued Letzerich’s detailed knowledge of cybersecurity, SaaS and application software solutions. He’s also got venture capital, private equity, pre-ipo and publicly traded company experience across multiple positive liquidity events provides a well-rounded approach to business transformation and growth across the broad spectrum of an organization’s lifecycle. Started his career at Accenture, Letzerich led process reengineering, PeopleSoft, and ecommerce engagements. It was his efforts that opened new markets and improved margin through definition and delivery of a new product line and platform that enabled end- to-end customer configuration and reduced implementation costs by 50%. Letzerich also played a key role in establishing and evangelizing new product strategy to move beyond traditional customer base into new wallets. Today, Letzerich specialize in market strategy and requirements definition, product vision, branding, industry analyst relations, and establishing new technology products and platforms. Anup Gahosh, CEO Next >