McFee and FireEye join forces for XDR

<p>Cloud Security News this week 26 Jan 2022</p> <ul> <li>Early December on Cloud Security News, we shared that Symphony Technology Group had acquired McAfee for 4 Billion along with FireEye for 1.2 Billion. The merger of these two companies has now form <strong>Trellix, </strong>which aims to be a leader in extended detection and response (XDR). In their blog post Trellix shared that &nbsp;“Customers can expect Trellix’s living security platform to deliver bold innovation across the XDR market.” &nbsp;- “with automation, machine learning, extensible architecture, and threat intelligence.” &nbsp;You can find out more about Trellix and read their blog post <a href="https://www.trellix.com/en-us/about/newsroom/news/news-detail-01192022a.html"><u>here</u></a> and let us know if you are excited about this merger?</li> <li>Orca Security is back in the news this week, not for their funding round or their vulnerability findings in AWS. They have made their 1st acquisition: RapidSec, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that protects web applications from client-side attacks. RapidSec’s software allows for detection of &nbsp;web-<a href="https://www.sdxcentral.com/resources/glossary/application-2/">application</a> misconfigurations and deviations from best practices. Orca has indicated that it &nbsp;plans to integrate these web services and API security technologies into its agentless <a href="https://www.sdxcentral.com/cloud/definitions/cloud-security-basics-definition/">cloud security</a> platform. You can read more about this acquisition <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6889587560541241344/"><u>here.</u></a></li> <li>Cloud Security Firm Polar Security that has emerged from Stealth With $8.5 Million Seed Funding. They are a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cloud security company that aims to provide visibility into companies’ cloud data storage to allow security teams to secure the data and avoid compliance problems. You can find out more about them <a href="https://www.polar.security/about"><u>here<