Datadog Launches Cloud and Application Security Capabilities Covering Development and Production Environments

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Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) has announced new security products, including Agentless Scanning, Data Security, and Code Security. These tools aim to support DevOps and security teams in securing their code and cloud environments. The new features include:

1. Agentless Scanning: Automatically discovers and monitors cloud resources for vulnerabilities.

2. Data Security: Helps classify and discover sensitive data risks in Amazon S3 buckets.

3. Code Security: Detects and prioritizes code vulnerabilities at runtime, achieving 100% accuracy in the OWASP Benchmark.

These capabilities are now available in beta, enhancing Datadog’s unified platform to help over 6,000 customers improve their security posture.

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• New security capabilities in beta: Agentless Scanning, Data Security, and Code Security.
• Agentless Scanning offers automatic discovery and monitoring of vulnerabilities in cloud resources.
• Code Security achieved 100% accuracy in OWASP Benchmark, enhancing vulnerability detection.
• Over 6,000 customers leveraging Datadog’s security products to improve security posture.

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• None.

New capabilities include agentless vulnerability scanning, discovery of data security risks in cloud resources and detection of code vulnerabilities during runtime

NEW YORK, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced new additions to its security product portfolio—including Agentless Scanning, Data Security and Code Security—which allow DevOps and security teams to easily secure their code, cloud environments and production applications.

As customers continue to adopt cloud-native technologies and practices, complex cloud environments and agile DevOps practices result in expanding risk across organizations' technology stacks. To ensure that DevOps and security teams can effectively detect, investigate and fix security issues, it is essential for them to gain comprehensive, up-to-date and shared visibility over their applications and cloud resources, including the data they store. Moreover, they need the right context in order to prioritize hundreds-to-thousands of signals effectively, and address their most critical risks and threats as a priority.

To help with with these challenges, Datadog announced the following capabilities that are now available in beta:

• Agentless Scanning: With Agentless Scanning, Datadog's Cloud Security Management enables security teams to set up monitoring for vulnerabilities within their hosts, containers and serverless functions in minutes. Datadog Agentless Scanning automatically discovers all cloud resources and monitors the environments continuously for changes and new vulnerabilities. Agentless Scanning complements the Datadog Agent, which provides deep visibility into active threats and real-time observability context for more effective prioritization of security issues.
• Data Security: Data Security helps teams easily classify and discover sensitive data that is at risk of being leaked in Amazon S3 buckets. Security teams can then use that information to prioritize misconfigurations and fixes in cloud environments.   
• Code Security (IAST): A unique, production-ready Interactive Applications Security Testing (IAST) solution which achieved 100% accuracy in OWASP Benchmark, Code Security detects and prioritizes application code vulnerabilities at runtime and also provides suggested remediation steps to include line of code. This new capability complements Datadog's Software Composition Analysis, connecting runtime third-party risks to development environments in order to help customers prioritize critical fixes. 

Traditional security solutions can be disjointed, making it difficult for DevOps and security stakeholders to manage and build the common context needed to take action," said Vikram Varakantam, Senior Director of Product at Datadog. "Datadog provides a unified platform that brings security and DevOps teams together and uses observability data from Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring and APM to help them understand, prioritize and act on their most critical risks. This comprehensive approach enables more than 6,000 unique customers leveraging one or more Datadog Security products to collaborate efficiently and strengthen their security posture at every step of the software lifecycle."

Agentless Scanning, Data Security and Code Security are now available in beta. Learn more about Datadog's full suite of security capabilities, including Cloud Security Management, Application Security Management, Software Composition Analysis and Cloud SIEM.

About Datadog

Datadog is the observability and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, user experience monitoring, cloud security and many other capabilities to provide unified, real-time observability and security for our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.

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FAQ

What new security features did Datadog announce for DDOG in June 2024?

Datadog announced Agentless Scanning, Data Security, and Code Security as new security features in June 2024.

How does Datadog's Agentless Scanning benefit security teams?

Datadog's Agentless Scanning automatically discovers and monitors cloud resources for vulnerabilities, helping security teams manage risks more effectively.

What is the benefit of Datadog's Data Security feature?

Datadog's Data Security helps classify and discover sensitive data at risk in Amazon S3 buckets, enabling teams to prioritize and fix misconfigurations.

How accurate is Datadog's new Code Security feature?

Datadog's Code Security achieved 100% accuracy in the OWASP Benchmark, ensuring effective detection and prioritization of code vulnerabilities.

How many customers are using Datadog's security products?

Over 6,000 customers are leveraging one or more of Datadog's security products to enhance their security posture.

What is the stock symbol for Datadog?

The stock symbol for Datadog is DDOG.