Lacework Adoption Spikes, Protects More Than 50,000 Instance-Hours Per Day in First Month on the Market

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Lacework™, a provider of cloud workload security solutions, today announced new customer adoption, industry accolades, product updates on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, and an expanded executive team. These developments demonstrate the company's momentum and continuing leadership in high velocity cloud security solutions. Polygraph, Lacework's cloud workload security solution, instantly detects breaches, manages insider threats, delivers insights into workloads, and supports security investigations for hybrid cloud workloads.

"This is an exciting time for Lacework. After only one month on the market, we are already seeing rapid adoption of our Polygraph platform," said Jack Kudale, CEO, Lacework. "Since our launch, Polygraph has grown to protect more than 50,000 instance-hour of cloud workloads every day. We've been honored with several awards, strengthened our executive bench through new hires and added new partner agreements and enterprise customer deployments. We are incredibly optimistic about the year ahead."

The company's latest AWS release includes new deployment capabilities that can install Polygraph on AWS installations in just three mouse clicks. Polygraph also now supports AWS SaaS Contracts on AWS Marketplace to speed and simplify the acquisition and billing process.

"Cybercriminals have become incredibly agile. If we can't keep up with our adversaries, we lose," said Alex Schlager, Executive Director Security, Product and New Business Innovation at Verizon. "The Lacework Polygraph solution delivers velocity at every stage of the process - from acquisition, to installation, to start up and on through investigation and remediation. With Polygraph, cybersecurity teams are finally as fast as the cybercriminals."

Lacework is expanding their leadership team with the appointment of Isabelle Dumont as Vice President of Marketing. Dumont brings an academic background in artificial intelligence and more than a decade of Marketing experience at disruptive technology companies including BlueTalon, Palo Alto Networks and SEVEN Networks. Dumont joins an expanded go-to-market team in Lacework's new facility in Mountain View, California. Lacework is also expanding its core engineering team with the appointment of Prab Reddy, formerly of Elastica and Hewlett Packard, as Director of UI Engineering, and Satya Podury, formerly of Trustwave and 8x8, as Director of QA Engineering.

"Lacework's journey may be just beginning," noted Isabelle Dumont, Vice President of Marketing, Lacework. "However, our progress so far is nothing short of astonishing. We will become a major force in cybersecurity in 2017 and I could not be more excited to be a part of it."

Since launching a month ago, Lacework has been honored with a number of industry awards, including:

• Recognized as a TiE50 Top Startup of 2017. This annual award recognizes the most promising new companies out of a global field of thousands of early-stage technology startups.
• Named a Top 10 Security Company in the Bay Area by Silicon Review.
• Finalist for the Red Herring Top 100 Startups award. This list honors the most promising private ventures from around the world. As a finalist, Lacework will present the company and its solution to a panel of peers and judges on June 13-14 in Marina Del Rey, California.

To learn more about Lacework and the benefits of the Polygraph Platform, please visit https://www.lacework.com/ and follow the company on Twitter and LinkedIn. Visit the company at the Cybersecurity International Symposium on July 10 - 11 in Chicago and at Gartner's Security and Risk Conference, which takes place June 12 - 15 in National Harbor, Maryland. See us at booth #K7.

About Lacework
Based in Mountain View, California, Lacework is the industry's first zero-touch, cloud workload security platform that provides breach detection, insider threat management, workload insights, and investigation analysis. After nearly two years of dedicated development and testing, Polygraph, Lacework's flagship offering, has been built to significantly compress the breach detection cycle, reduce false positives, provide high precision alerts, and simplify investigation analysis. Lacework's solution provides security for dynamic datacenter, cloud and container workloads without requiring any policies, rules or manual tagging. Lacework automatically discovers customers' workloads, applications and users, along with their interactions, by creating Polygraphs. For more information, please visit https://www.lacework.com/.

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