Zscaler has agreed to purchase cloud security posture management startup Cloudneeti to prevent and remediate application misconfigurations in the cloud. The San Jose, Calif.-based cloud security company said the proposed acquisition of Redmond, Wash.-based Cloudneeti will extend Zscaler’s data protection for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications into public cloud workloads. SaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) misconfigurations are a leading cause of data breaches and compliance violations in cloud applications.
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