SentinelOne enhances cloud security, acquires PingSafe

SentinelOne, a leading global provider of AI-driven security solutions, announced today its agreement to acquire PingSafe. This strategic move involves incorporating PingSafe’s cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) into SentinelOne’s existing cloud workload security and cloud data security capabilities. The envisioned outcome is the creation of an integrated platform that enhances coverage, hygiene, and automation throughout the entirety of a company’s cloud infrastructure.

The integration of PingSafe’s CNAPP into SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform represents a transformative shift in cloud security practices. Rather than relying on individual solutions or a standalone cloud security platform, organizations can now access a unified, top-tier security platform equipped with cutting-edge, real-time, AI-powered security operations. This comprehensive solution is designed to safeguard the entire enterprise, covering endpoints, identities, and various cloud environments.

Ric Smith, Chief Product and Technology Officer at SentinelOne, expressed the company’s vision, stating, “With the addition of PingSafe, we aim to redefine cloud security by combining top-notch cloud workload protection, AI, and analytics capabilities with a modern and comprehensive CNAPP. This innovative approach eliminates the complexities associated with managing multiple-point solutions, investigating incidents with incomplete context, or dealing with data silos. Instead, organizations can efficiently oversee their entire attack surface through a singular platform. In contrast to legacy CNAPP and standalone providers, our platform delivers complete context, real-time interaction, and analytics, enabling the correlation, detection, and prevention of multi-stage attacks in a straightforward, automated manner.”

Transforming Cybersecurity

SentinelOne continues to expand its cloud security capabilities, moving beyond cloud workload security. The recent acquisition of PingSafe is set to expedite this strategic growth, aligning seamlessly with the Singularity Unity Release strategy, which SentinelOne unveiled in November to revolutionize security operations centers.

Anand Prakash, the founder and CEO of PingSafe, recognized as one of the world’s top five white hat hackers, expressed the shared mission between PingSafe and SentinelOne. As a pioneer and leader in AI-powered security, SentinelOne aims to secure the cloud and enhance internet safety. The integration of PingSafe’s advanced CNAPP capabilities with SentinelOne’s leading AI security platform is expected to significantly enhance cloud security. This collaboration will deliver top-tier protection for multi-cloud infrastructure, covering the entire spectrum from development to deployment.

Leading Cloud Security with Enterprise-Wide AI and Analytics

PingSafe stands as a robust Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) solution, offering dynamic, real-time monitoring of multi-cloud workloads, straightforward setup and configuration, and a minimal rate of false positives. Customers consistently recognize it as superior when compared to alternative solutions in the market.

Ashwath Kumar, Principal Security Engineer at Razorpay, one of India’s largest payment processors, emphasized the paramount importance of securing their environment with over $100 billion in transactions flowing through their network. According to Kumar, PingSafe cuts through the noise generated by many CNAPP solutions, allowing them to identify and prioritize critical threats. This proactive approach helps prevent potential impacts on their business.

In a regulated yet rapidly growing industry, Prajal Kulkarni, CISO at Groww, highlighted the need for swift adaptation and compliance. He praised PingSafe for providing a centralized dashboard that facilitates quick identification, prioritization, and seamless response to cloud misconfigurations across their extensive cloud environment, making it both easy and cost-effective.

With the acquisition of PingSafe, SentinelOne aims to introduce differentiated capabilities. These include advanced secrets scanning of runtime and build-time environments, an attack surface management rules engine for breach and attack simulation against Internet-exposed cloud assets, and core CNAPP features like cloud security posture management, Kubernetes security posture management, agentless vulnerability scanning, and shift-left Infrastructure as Code scanning.

The integration of PingSafe into SentinelOne’s ecosystem, alongside Singularity Data Lake, Purple AI, endpoint security, and identity security capabilities, is expected to provide a compelling and cost-effective alternative to standalone CNAPP offerings. This integration promises a superior and more cohesive user experience, setting it apart in the market.