Cloudflare, Inc. , the leading connectivity cloud company, announced the acquisition of Kivera, a cloud security, data protection, and compliance platform.
The combination of Kivera and the Cloudflare One platform will put preventive controls directly into the cloud deployment process, or ‘inline’, preventing security issues and risks before they happen to create a cloud journey that is faster, simpler, and more secure.
Gartner® estimates that, “through 2027, 99% of records compromised in cloud environments will be the result of user misconfigurations and account compromise, not the result of an issue with the cloud provider.” Traditional methods of addressing these risks—such as cloud security posture management (CSPM) systems or infrastructure as code (IaC) scanning tools—alert IT teams and developers only after something goes wrong, immediately putting these teams on defense.
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At the same time, the amount of data flowing between organizations and their cloud providers has ballooned, increasing the chances of data leakage, compliance issues, and, worse, opportunities for attackers.
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare said, “At Cloudflare, we want to make it easy for any organization to connect and protect everything connected to the Internet—and our global network puts us in the best position to do that for millions of users across the world. Almost every organization uses multiple clouds now to power their business, but that can translate to more risks and unintentional errors, By integrating Kivera’s team and technology, we’ll be able to better help all of our customers work with any big cloud provider in the most secure, reliable manner.”
Cloudflare One is one of the fastest-growing platforms for single-vendor secure access service edge (SASE) and security service edge (SSE) services. Companies worldwide rely on Cloudflare One to ensure safe access to web, SaaS, and private apps or infrastructure, safeguard against cyber threats, and maintain robust data protection across their networks. With the integration of Kivera’s technology, Cloudflare’s SASE platform will soon bring additional, preventive cloud security all within a unified platform.
Vernon Jefferson, Co-founder, Kivera said, “For too long, the adoption of cloud computing has left security teams within organizations playing catch-up, As they do their best to ensure sensitive company data is protected and compliance obligations are met, they are bombarded by alerts that they then have to investigate. We believe there’s a better way—a way to give security teams the upper hand by eliminating room for error at the cloud configuration level. Kivera has solved this in an elegant way, and I’m excited to help bring this technology to the wider Cloudflare customer base.”
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
About Kivera
Kivera enforces your organisation governance and security policies across cloud deployments preventing misconfigurations turning into attack vectors. Kivera’s patented technology provides deep visibility into cloud requests with the flexibility to apply across any deployment tool allowing developers to choose the right tool for the job.
